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The second round of PRACTA e-learning for Doctors - Participants of the project
On 1-31 October 2015 the second round of e-learning for doctors participating in the project PRACTA will be held. Doctors who have declared their interest in participating in e-learning, will receive by mail logins and passwords to log on to the e-learning platform.Upon completion of this phase of the project, all the doctors who have expressed such a wish, receive the certificate with the number of obtained education points.
E-learning for Doctors – Participants of the PRACTA Project
The next phase of the PRACTA project started. It consists in doctors’ participation in e-learning “Activating the elderly by medical pr@ctice – the course of psychological competencies for doctors."
The first stage of the survey among doctors and patients has been closed
The first stage of the survey among doctors and patients in PRACTA project was closed in January 2015. Our participants were 503 doctors from Masovia, Łódź Province and Wielkopolska, and 5030 patients aged 50+. Ten patients of each recruited doctor were surveyed in all primary care facilities invited to the project.
PRACTA for students of MUW
On November 24, 2014 a lecture for students of the Medical University of Warsaw was presented by Professor Geir Arild Espnes, the leader of Norwegian team of PRACTA.
PRACTA on the movie set
In the first half of November 2014 we completed shootings for films which are elements of e-learning training for primary health care doctors involved in the PRACTA project.
Projct PRACTA at the Health Forum in Trondheim
“The 2nd International Forum of Health Promotion Research – Next Health”, was held in Trondheim, Norway, between 25-28th of August, 2014. This event gathered top researchers from many countries, such as: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, United States, Australia or New Zealand, working within the field of broadly understood health promotion.
Gdańsk, June 2014 – The next Polish-Norwegian scientific workshop
Between 25 and 27 June 2014, the second Polish-Norwegian workshop within the confines of project PRACTA took place in Gdansk/Jelitkowo. This time we focused on results of the first stage of doctors and patients’ examination. The main goal was to determine the scope and methods of e-learning course for doctors, the course which will be prepared by the PRACTA team over the next months. According to the project assumptions, the e-learning course should be evidence-based, that is based on empirical data reflecting real character of relationships the project is aimed at.
Presentation in Greece: DOCTORS COMMUNICATION SKILLS – DOCTORS AND ELDERLY PATIENTS PERSPECTIVE
The project PRACTA was presented at the „First International Meeting on Well being and Preformance in Clinical Practice: "Doctors think. Doctors feel. Doctors do” which took place in Alexandroupolis, Greece, May 28th – June 1st, 2014. Oral communication titled DOCTORS COMMUNICATION SKILLS – DOCTORS AND ELDERLY PATIENTS PERSPECTIVE. A POLISH-NORWEGIAN RESEARCH PROJECT PRACTA was prepared and presented by PRACTA team members Magdalena Łazarewicz i Dorota Włodarczyk.
PRACTA on the Congress of Gerontology
Between 25th and 29th of May The 22nd Nordic Congress of Gerontology was organised in Gothenborg (Sweden). The leading theme this year was Age Well – Challenges for Individuals and Society. About 1000 participants came to take a part in this event, not only from northern countries, but also from UK, USA, India, Tunisia or Portugal. Our country was represented by some participants, among which Marta Rzadkiewicz from PRACTA project. She has presented a poster with data from pilot study (as one of the first outputs from this research) illustrating the elderly patients’ attitude toward the illness and treatment as seen by themselves and the doctors.
Polish-Norwegian Research Programme - Official Kick-off meeting
On the 23.04.2014, the PRACTA team participated in the kick off conference organized by the National Centre for Research and Development. Polish and Norwegian project promotors and project partners of projects funded in the Core 2012 and the CCS 2013 calls, gathered in Warsaw. Our team was represented by dr Joanna Chylińska.