Pharmacists' learning needs in the era of expanding scopes of practice: Evolving practices and changing needs.

Background: Continuing professional development fosters advancement in knowledge and skills and can support changes in practice. Research suggests that pharmacists perceive the need for additional training to take on expanded roles. However, the types of professional development and preferred learning methods are unclear.

Respect from specialists: concerns of family physicians.

Objective: To explore potential solutions to the challenge of gaining more respect for FPs from other specialists.

Design: An original Web-based qualitative survey, from May 27, 2004, to January 5, 2005, involving 5 rounds.

Setting: Province of Alberta.

Rewards and challenges of family practice: Web-based survey using the Delphi method.

Objective: To identify and describe the important rewards and challenges that affect family physicians in Alberta.

Design: Web-based qualitative study using the Delphi method.

Setting: Province of Alberta.

Distance delivery of nutrition education.

Questions often arise about the quality of an educational experience in a distance format. Debate exists as to whether the relatively new format of on-line education can offer an equivalent learning experience for students, and the perception remains that virtual learning is impersonal. We examined students' experience in an introductory undergraduate nutrition course that had been remodelled as an asynchronous, active-learning, student-centred model.

Rehabilitation professionals' satisfaction with continuing education delivered at a distance using different technologies.

This paper examines learner satisfaction with technologies used for distance delivery of continuing education across 10 Canadian sites: nine within the province of Alberta and one in Nunavut Territory. The technologies were satellite (or videotapes of) broadcasts, videoconferencing, and web-based technology. Learner satisfaction was evaluated using questionnaires.

Internet users' prior psychological and social difficulties.

This study addressed the hypothesis that frequent Internet use produces social and psychological difficulties. An Internet-administered survey was given to a sample of Internet users. Comparisons were made between this sample and general population norms on a selection of social and psychological variables.