ANALYSIS OF PROFESSIONAL CONTINUING EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES IN HEALTH CARE

Any health care specialist – physician, physician’s assistant,nurse, nurse’s aid, midwife and other professionals of this field have to improve their professional skills, therefore it is important to go on learning to acquire the latest medical ideas and topicalities in the speciality, to get new knowledge, skills and competences. Professional growth and compliance with the respective field are assessed by a certification commission of any association and a certificate awarded which allows to do work in a health care field. The awarded certificate to a health care specialist serves as acknowledgement to one’s knowledge, skills and competences. In order to ease the ways for a specialist to improve knowledge, skills and competences, various courses, seminars and conferences are organized. By participation in these events specialists are awarded continuing education points, which have to be summed up thus giving an opportunity to prolong the the term for the acquired certificate. Themes for continuing education programme are offered specifying particular fields of health care .It allows a specialist to choose those programmes which give a chance to ease the solution of the most topical problems in practic

Development of the pedagogical competence of medical students in the study process

ANOTĀCIJA Margaritas Puķītes promocijas darbs nozaru (medicīnas) pedagoģijā „Medicīnas studentu pedagoģiskās kompetences veidošanās studiju procesā” izstrādāts Latvijas Universitātes Pedagoģijas, psiholoģijas un mākslas fakultātes Pedagoģijas nodaļā asociētās profesores Dr. psych. Lūcijas Rutkas vadībā laika posmā no 2005. gada līdz 2011. gadam. Pētījuma mērķis: noteikt medicīnas studentu pedagoģiskās kompetences būtību, izpētīt tās veidošanos studiju procesā, izstrādāt un pārbaudīt pedagoģiskās kompetences veicināšanas modeli. Pētījums veikts Rīgas Stradiņa universitātes Sarkanā Krusta medicīnas koledžā, kurā piedalījās 100 medicīnas pilna laika studenti, kuri ieguva pirmā līmeņa profesionālo augstāko izglītību studiju programmās “Māszinības” un “Ārstniecība” trijos studiju gados, laika periodā no 2007./2008.studiju gada līdz 2009./2010.studiju gadam. Promocijas darbs sastāv no 3 nodaļām, kas atklāj un analizē medicīnas studentu pedagoģiskās kompetences veidošanos un tās iespējas to veicināt studiju procesā. Pētījuma gaitā kopumā analizēti 319 literatūras avoti latviešu, krievu, angļu un vācu valodās. Teorētisko un praktisko atziņu rezultāti ir parādīti 77 tabulās, 58 attēlos un 19 pielikumos. Atslēgas vārdi: medicīnas studenti, pedagoģiskā kompetence, studiju processANNOTATION The doctoral thesis in medical pedagogy “Formation of medical students’ pedagogical competences in the study process” has been worked out under the guidance of the associate professor Dr. psych. Lucia Rutka in the Pedagogical department at the faculty of Pedagogy, Psychology and Art University of Latvia over a period of time 2005 – 2011 by Margarita Puķīte. The aim of the research: state the essence of the pedagogical competence in medical students, study its development in the process of studies, work out and test the promoting model of the pedagogical competence. The research has been performed at the Riga Stradinsh University Red Cross medical college in which a hundred full-time medical students acquiring first level Professional higher education in the programs of „Nurse Studies” and „Medicine” participated in the three academic years from 2007./2008. – 2009./2010. The doctoral thesis is composed of three sections where the development of the pedagogical competence and the possibilities of its formation during the study process are discovered and analysed. 319 literary sources in the Latvian, Russian, English and German languages have been analysed in the research in total. The theoretical and practical verity is displayed in 77 tables, 58 figures and 19 supplements. The key words: medical students, the pedagogical competence, study process

Is a scaling factor required to obtain closure between measured and modelled atmospheric O₄ absorptions? An assessment of uncertainties of measurements and radiative transfer simulations for 2 selected days during the MAD-CAT campaign

In this study the consistency between MAX-DOAS measurements and radiative transfer simulations of the atmospheric O4 absorption is investigated on 2 mainly cloud-free days during the MAD-CAT campaign in Mainz, Germany, in summer 2013. In recent years several studies indicated that measurements and radiative transfer simulations of the atmospheric O4 absorption can only be brought into agreement if a so-called scaling factor (<1) is applied to the measured O4 absorption. However, many studies, including those based on direct sunlight measurements, came to the opposite conclusion, that there is no need for a scaling factor. Up to now, there is no broad consensus for an explanation of the observed discrepancies between measurements and simulations. Previous studies inferred the need for a scaling factor from the comparison of the aerosol optical depths derived from MAX-DOAS O4 measurements with that derived from coincident sun photometer measurements. In this study a different approach is chosen: the measured O4 absorption at 360 nm is directly compared to the O4 absorption obtained from radiative transfer simulations. The atmospheric conditions used as input for the radiative transfer simulations were taken from independent data sets, in particular from sun photometer and ceilometer measurements at the measurement site. This study has three main goals: first all relevant error sources of the spectral analysis, the radiative transfer simulations and the extraction of the input parameters used for the radiative transfer simulations are quantified. One important result obtained from the analysis of synthetic spectra is that the O4 absorptions derived from the spectral analysis agree within 1 % with the corresponding radiative transfer simulations at 360 nm. Based on the results from sensitivity studies, recommendations for optimised settings for the spectral analysis and radiative transfer simulations are given. Second, the measured and simulated results are compared for 2 selected cloud-free days with similar aerosol optical depths but very different aerosol properties. On 18 June, measurements and simulations agree within their (rather large) uncertainties (the ratio of simulated and measured O4 absorptions is found to be 1.01±0.16). In contrast, on 8 July measurements and simulations significantly disagree: for the middle period of that day the ratio of simulated and measured O4 absorptions is found to be 0.82±0.10, which differs significantly from unity. Thus, for that day a scaling factor is needed to bring measurements and simulations into agreement. Third, recommendations for further intercomparison exercises are derived. One important recommendation for future studies is that aerosol profile data should be measured at the same wavelengths as the MAX-DOAS measurements. Also, the altitude range without profile information close to the ground should be minimised and detailed information on the aerosol optical and/or microphysical properties should be collected and used. The results for both days are inconsistent, and no explanation for a O4 scaling factor could be derived in this study. Thus, similar but more extended future studies should be performed, including more measurement days and more instruments. Also, additional wavelengths should be included

Mākslu terapija dažādām klientu / pacientu grupām

Šis rakstu krājums ir izveidots un publicēts Erasmus Mūžizglītības intensīvās programmas projektā “Mākslu terapija dažādām klientu / pacientu grupām” (2014) Rīgas Stradiņa universitātes Rehabilitācijas fakultātē, profesionālā maģistra studiju programmā “Mākslas terapija” sadarbībā ar projekta partneriem. Raksti ir balstīti uz teorētisko prezentāciju un autoru semināru saturu intensīvās programmas laikā. Rakstu krājumā aprakstīts teorētiskais un praktiskais darbs ar veselības aprūpes disciplīnu - mākslas terapijas specializācijām - mākslas terapijas, deju kustību terapijas, mūzikas terapijas iespējas ar dažādām klientu / pacientu grupām veselības aprūpē, sociālajā aprūpē un izglītības vidē. Rakstu krājumā ir dažādi mākslas terapeiti no Igaunijas, Latvijas, Lietuvas, Vācijas un Lielbritānijas, kā arī viņu praktiskās pieredzes kopsavilkums. Gadījumu izpēte ir neseno pētījumu rezultāti mākslas terapijas jomā. Raksti akcentē un raksturo mākslas terapijas specializācijas specifiku un piedāvā iespējas darbā ar dažādām klientu / pacientu grupām. Kolekcijā tiek piedāvāti daudzdimensionāli skati uz mākslas terapijas praktisko daļu. Tas arī demonstrē dažādus terapeitiskos ietvarus, medicīnisko, psiholoģisko teoriju integrāciju, kas tiek izmantota mākslas terapijas pielietojamības pamatā, piedāvā dažus uz mākslu balstīta novērtējuma aspektus un dalās noderīgā pieredzē. Autori piedāvā mūsdienu pieejas mākslas terapijas darbos. Projekta galvenie mērķi bija nodrošināt pieredzes apmaiņu, izmantojot aktivitātes starp projekta partneriem; iegūt un attīstīt jaunas zināšanas un prasmes; izveidot norādes materiālus mākslas terapijas darbiem dažādām klientu / pacientu grupām; un veicināt turpmāku mākslas terapijas attīstību projektā iesaistītajās valstīs