Chen, Frederick M.; Bauchner, Howard; Burstin, Helen

Academic Medicine, 2004

"The primary goal of medical education is to produce physicians who deliver high-quality health care. Recent calls for greater accountability in medical education and the development of outcomes research methodologies should encourage a new research effort to examine the effects of medical training upon clinical outcomes. The authors offer a research agenda that links medical education and quality of health care and give specific examples of potential research projects that would begin to examine that relationship. A proposed model of patient outcomes research in medical education recognizes the contributory effects of health care system-level factors as well as the continuum of medical education, process measures, and individual training and preparedness to deliver high-quality care. There exists an opportunity to create a research agenda in medical education outcomes research that is multidisciplinary, broad based, and focused on patient-centered outcomes."

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Adriana A. Beylefeld & Magdalena C. Struwig

Medical Teacher, 2007

Andrew Walubo, Vanessa Burch, Paresh Parmar, Deshandra Raidoo, Mariam Cassimjee, Rudy Onia, Francis Ofei

Academic Medicine, 2003

Sean M Hammond, Margaret O'Rourke, Martina Kelly, Deirdre Bennett and Siun O'Flynn

BMC Medical Education, 2012

"The quality of the Educational environment is a key determinant of a student centred curriculum. Evaluation of the educational environment is an important component of programme appraisal. In order to conduct such evaluation use of a comprehensive, valid and reliable instrument is essential. One of most widely used contemporary tools for evaluation of the learning environment is the Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM). Apart from the initial psychometric evaluation of the DREEM, few published studies report its psychometric properties in detail. The aim of this study was to examine the psychometric quality of the DREEM measure in the context of medical education in Ireland and to explore the construct validity of the device."

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"A questionnaire developed and administered by the Association of American Medical Colleges. The questionnaire gathers medical student information on medical school experiences as well as career intentions."

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"A questionnaire developed and administered by the Association of American Medical Colleges. The questionnaire gathers information on pre-med experiences, reasons for choosing medical school and future career goals."

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Albert Rothenberg

South African Medical Journal, 2007

Shahid Yusuf, William Saint, and Kaoru Nabeshima

World Bank, 2009

"Developed by the U.S. Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education, this packet contains descriptions of assessment methods that can be used for evaluating residents."

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Jacqueline van Wyk

Medical Education, 2006

Africa Progress Panel

Africa Progress Panel, 2008

Peter Rosseel, Erik De Corte, Jan Blommaert and Elke Verniers

VLIR-UOS (Flemish Interuniversity Council - University Development Cooperation)

The program is an ongoing ten-year institutional university cooperation (IUC) between the VLIR and the University of Western Cape (UWC) called “Dynamics of building a better society” that consists of seven projects. The research project was a one-year collaboration between the University of Zambia (UNZA) and the University of Western Cape (UWC).

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Miriam Samuel, John C Coombes, J Jaime Miranda, Rob Melvin, Eoin JW Young and Pejman Azarmina

BMC Public Health, 2004

Gilles Dussault, Laurence Codjia, Kathy Kantengwga, Kate Tulenko

Leadership in Health Services, 2008

R.J. Mash, D. Marais, S. Van Der Walt, I. Van Deventer, M. Steyn & D. Labadarios

Medical Education, 2005

B. Mash, I. Cooper, J. Hugo

South African Family Practice, 2006

B. Pálsdóttir, A.J. Neusy, G. Reed

Education for Health, 2008

Yoswa M. Dambisya

Education for Health, 2003

Efosa Oviasu

Medical Education, 2008

Sarah Kiguli, Stephen Kijjambu & Andrew Mwanika

Medical Education, 2006

Bob Mash, Marietjie de Villiers

Medical Education, 1999

Gudrun Edgren, Ann-Christin Haffling, Ulf Jakobsson, Sean Mcaleer, & Nils Danielsen

Medical Teacher, 2010

"The medical programme at Lund University, Sweden, has undergone curricular reform over several stages, which is still ongoing. Students have been somewhat negative in their evaluations of the education during this time."

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Grace Ada Ajuwon

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2003

Richard Odoi Adome & Fred Kitutu

Medical Education, 2008

"An online module to develop/enhance skills in the critical appraisal of a primary study of a treatment or prevention intervention."

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Helen M Nabwera, Sue Purnell and Imelda Bates

Human Resources for Health, 2008

"Allows international medical schools to verify the status of their students/graduates who apply to the ECFMG for the US Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE), access data on the performance of their graduates on Step 1 and 2 of the USMLE. Requires an authorized user account and internet access."

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Gordon E. Schutze, Margaret G. Ferris, David C. Jones, Nancy R. Calles, Michael B. Mizwa, Heidi L. Schwarzwald, R. Sebastian Wanless and Mark W. Kline

AIDS Patient Care and STDS, 2008

U.S. Department of Education

"ERIC provides unlimited access to more than 1.4 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials, with hundreds of new records added multiple times per week. If possible, links to full text in Adobe PDF format are included."

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Elsheikh Badr

Sudanese Journal of Public Health, 2006

M. K. Jinadu, E. O. Ojofeitimi & P. Oribabor

Education for Health, 2002

"A system to track participants in health research training programs. CareerTrac Data Collection Form collects contact information, biological information, training information, and trainee accomplishments. Information must be collected and entered by a Principal Investigator. System maintained by the NIH/FIC, requires a username and password and an internet connected web-browser."

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Pieter Serneels, Magnus Lindelow, Jose G Montalvo and Abigail Barr

Health Policy and Planning, 2007

"Fogarty's Division of International Science Policy, Planning and Evaluation (DISPPE) has developed the following Framework for Evaluation."

Julio Frenk, Lincoln Chen, Zulfi qar A Bhutta, Jordan Cohen, Nigel Crisp, Timothy Evans, Harvey Fineberg, Patricia Garcia, Yang Ke, Patrick Kelley, Barry Kistnasamy, Afaf Meleis, David Naylor, Ariel Pablos-Mendez, Srinath Reddy, Susan Scrimshaw, Jaime Sepulveda, David Serwadda, Huda Zurayk

The Lancet, 2010

H.G. Wells

UNESCO, 2009

World Bank

World Bank, 1994

Giuseppe Raviola, M’Imunya Machoki, Esther Mwaikambo and Mary Jo Delvecchio Good

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 2002

"Free, open source human resources information system to collect, maintain and analyze health workforce data. iHRIS includes both a toolkit for HRH tracking and software that can be downloaded from the internet."

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"Impact Evaluation in Practice presents a non-technical overview of how to design and use impact evaluation to build more effective programs to alleviate poverty and improve people's lives. Aimed at policymakers, project managers and development practitioners, the book offers experts and non-experts alike a review of why impact evaluations are important and how they are designed and implemented. The goal is to further the ability of policymakers and practitioners to use impact evaluations to help make policy decisions based on evidence of what works the most effectively.

The book is accompanied by a set of training material - including videos and power point presentations- developed for the "Turning Promises to Evidence" workshop series of the Office of the Chief Economist for Human Development. It is a reference and self-learning tool for policy-makers interested in using impact evaluations and was developed to serve as a manual for introductory courses on impact evaluation as well as a teaching resource for trainers in academic and policy circles."

Donald Kirkpatrick & James Kirkpatrick

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2007

"The authors draw on their decades of collective expertise to offer time-tested advice for putting their training effectiveness model into practice. This new, concise, hands-on guide is designed as a companion volume to Donald Kirkpatrick's bestselling 'Evaluating Training Programs.'"

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JoAnne E. Natale, Ellen Hamburger, Mussie Aman, Woldu Asmerom, Amal Faisal, Fitsum Gebremichael, Solomon Haile, Meroni Maekele, Mahmud Mohammed, Dawit Tesfaye, Belai Ghiorghis, & Jill G. Joseph.

Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2010

Objective: To reduce direct parental referral of low acuity ill pediatric patients to the outpatient facilities of a nation’s only pediatric referral hospital. Patients and Methods: Longitudinal monitoring of outpatient visits at Orotta Children’s Hospital (OCH) and primary health facilities (PHFs) following implementation of an intervention designed in response to information provided by parents and health-care providers. Parental surveys were undertaken before and after exposure to the intervention to assess effects on knowledge, attitudes, and behavioral intentions. Results: We analyzed 5,639 visits between baseline and follow-up, documenting a decline in parental referral among OCH outpatients from 95% to approximately 80%. Educational intervention increased the proportion of parents intending to use PHF for future outpatient care from 28% to 82%. Staff of the PHFs responded enthusiastically to this intervention program and requested further activities. Conclusions: Self-referral to tertiary care hospital was reduced following a modest program of parental education designed and implemented by residents in training.

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Michelle McLean

Medical Education, 2001

Chris Bateman

South African Journal of Medicine, 2006