World Directory Research Articles

Sources: World Directory of Business Information Sources

Sources: World Directory of Business Information Sources

Latin American and Caribbean dental schools: teaching about special needs

Assess the extent of the teaching of care for individuals with special needs in schools of dentistry in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), and deans and program directors' willingness to introduce such programmatic modules into the curricula. The survey instrument (a short-answer questionnaire modeled from the U.S. Curriculum Assessment of Needs Project) was delivered to a survey sample gleaned from all LAC dental schools listed in the World Health Organization (WHO) World Directory of Medical Schools through a Web-based survey tool that delivered the questionnaire via e-mail and stored and displayed responses graphically and in real time. Schools with incorrect or insufficient e-mail/contact information or a primary working language other than Spanish or Portuguese were excluded from the study. A total of three attempts (by e-mail and telephone) were made to follow up nonrespondents. More than half of the 142 respondents indicated their students were receiving less than 5 hours of didactic training and less than 5 hours of clinical training in the care of individuals with special needs. Of these 142 respondents, 23% and 30%, respectively, reported that no curricula hours were needed for didactic or clinical training focused exclusively on care of individuals with special needs. Emphasis on the difficulties in developing such programs was placed on lack of faculty experienced in the care of patients with special needs. There is a need for increased didactic and clinical preparation of graduates of LAC dental schools in the care of individuals with special health needs.

World Federation for Medical Education Policy on International Recognition of Medical Schools’ Programme

The increasing globalisation of medicine, as manifested in the migration rate of medical doctors and in the growth of cross-border education providers, has inflicted a wave of quality assurance efforts in medical education, and underlined the need for definition of standards and for introduction of effective and transparent accreditation systems. In 2004, reflecting the importance of the interface between medical education and the healthcare delivery sector, a World Health Organization (WHO)/World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) Strategic Partnership to improve medical education was formed. In 2005, the partnership published Guidelines for Accreditation of Basic Medical Education. The WHO/WFME Guidelines recommend the establishment of proper accreditation systems that are effective, independent, transparent and based on medical education-specific criteria. An important prerequisite for this development was the WFME Global Standards programme, initiated in 1997 and widely endorsed. The standards are now being used in all 6 WHO/WFME regions as a basis for quality improvement of medical education throughout its continuum and as a template for national and regional accreditation standards. Promotion of national accreditation systems will have a pivotal influence on future international appraisal of medical education. Information about accreditation status - the agencies involved and the criteria and procedure used - will be an essential component of new Global Directories of Health Professions Educational Institutions. According to an agreement between the WHO and the University of Copenhagen (UC), these Directories (the Avicenna Directories) will be developed and published by the UC with the assistance of the WFME, starting with renewal of the WHO World Directory of Medical Schools, and sequentially expanding to cover educational institutions for other health professions. The Directories will be a foundation for international meta-recognition ("accrediting the accreditors") of educational institutions and their programmes.

World Directory of Business Information Websites (7th ed.)

World Directory of Business Information Websites (7th ed.)

World Directory of Trade and Business Journals, 3rd ed.

World Directory of Trade and Business Journals, 3rd ed.

World directory of Crustacea Copepoda of inland waters

World directory of Crustacea Copepoda of inland waters

World Directory of Palaeontologists

World Directory of Palaeontologists

World Directory of Palaeontologists

World Directory of Palaeontologists

Status of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in European Medical Schools

Background: The aim of this study was to investigatewhether Complementary and Alternative Medicine(CAM) education is part of the regular medical curriculumin European universities and whether it correlateswith the public demand for CAM methods. Materials andMethods: Using the World Directory of Medical Schools,265 medical faculties in EU countries were contacted viae-mail or regular post and asked to fill out a questionnaireof 7 questions concerning CAM education in theirestablishments. Results: Only 40% of the responding universitieswere offering some form of CAM training. Wecould not show any correlation between the public demandfor CAM methods and the availability of CAMtraining in medical universities. Conclusions: The growingpopularity of CAM makes it very important for physiciansto gain information on these methods and techniques,thus better incorporation of CAM education intothe regular medical curriculum is needed in all Europeanmedical faculties.

WFCC-MIRCEN: world data centre for microorganisms

In the 1960s, microbiology and culture collection experts met several times to develop a strategic plan to foster microbial culture collections. They quickly recognised that statistics on the activities of culture collections worldwide were not available and that there was a need for a ?world directory of collections of cultures of microorganisms? that accumulated information on culture collections. It was obvious also that a world data centre for microorganisms was required to develop and maintain the directory.

Electoral Success and Federal-level Influence of Russian Regional Executives

POLITICAL SCIENTISTS HAVE ASSERTED that popular legitimacy and durable leadership tend to increase the power and influence of political leaders. 1 In line with these assumptions, popular and durable Russian regional executive leaders should have been attributed with greater levels of bargaining power in centre – region relations. This study seeks to test whether regional leaders in the Russian Federation have been able to transform political strength and authority at the regional level—as measured by election outcomes and time in power—into political influence at the federal level. While controlling for economic, cultural and geographical variables—which can be associated with political resources that enhance the bargaining power of regional leaders—regression analyses do show a positive and statistically significant relationship between votes for regional chief executives and their federal-level influence in 2003. From 1996 practically all of the regional chief executives in the Russian Federation became elected by, and accountable to, their regional constituencies. Since the regional leaders were elected to public office, they enjoyed legitimacy and authority. Ideally, the regional presidents and governors had the potential to act as electorally generated institutional veto players, who had the capacity to constrain the central government. In order to effectively act as veto players, subnational leaders should have the power and authority to either prevent laws from getting passed at the national level by influencing national legislators or block policy initiatives put forward by the central government by refusing to comply at the implementation stage (Stepan, 2004; Mainwaring & Samuels, 2004). In Russia, the ability of regional governments to challenge the central government became possible during and after the demise of the Soviet Union. The final stages of the Soviet period saw the weakening of centralised and communist power and the regional authorities managed to procure greater levels of power and authority. The central authorities still played a major role, but the representatives of the regions— especially those in the ethnic republics—were by no means insignificant political actors. Stoner-Weiss (1997, p. 73) points out that it was quite a natural progression that regional politicians by 1990, in the midst of the transition process towards greater democracy in the Soviet Union, longed for greater control over policy within their

World Directory of Business Information Libraries (5th edition)

World Directory of Business Information Libraries (5th edition)

NIRA’s World Directory of Think Tanks (4th edition)

NIRA’s World Directory of Think Tanks (4th edition)

Networking of Biological Resource Centers: WDCM experiences

The WFCC-MIRCEN World Data Centre for Microorganisms (WDCM) was set up more than 30 years ago as a data center of the World Federation for Culture Collections (WFCC). It published the World Directory of Collections of Cultures of Microorganisms when it was established and now provides a portal site for microbial resource centers and their customers by fully utilizing Internet technology. This paper introduces international initiatives on biological resources centers together with the activities of WDCM.

World Directory of Map Collections

World Directory of Map Collections

2001 World Directory of Manufactured Fiber Producers

2001 World Directory of Manufactured Fiber Producers

The IFLAWorld Directory of National Union Catalogues

ABSTRACT The IFLA World Directory of National Union Catalogues (IWDNUC) is a union catalogue of national union catalogues throughout the world. Available on IFLANET, the IWDNUC allows the searcher to find holdings of materials in libraries outside one's own country. To be included in the Directory, catalogues must be national in coverage and currently maintained. Subject oriented catalogues are eligible as long as their coverage is national. Though the IWDNUC contains some important catalogues that are not accessible outside the home library, it includes ways to access most catalogues and how to obtain materials listed within them. Still a work in progress, plans for future development include expanding the Directory and improving the information provided.

From cards to clumps: a look at developments in the world of union catalogues

With shrinking local library resources and the growth of resource sharing, union catalogues, in one form or another, are an important feature in today’s library world. This article takes a look at some of the developments in union catalogue production, from card catalogue to virtual union catalogues or clumps, and discusses their use for document access and supply. The IFLA World Directory of National Union Catalogues, a kind of union catalogue of union catalogues, is also described.

World directory of business information Web sites

World directory of business information Web sites

NIRA's world directory of think tanks 1996

NIRA's world directory of think tanks 1996