A Royal Teaching Experience

A public/private partnership: the Royal Ottawa Hospital experience.

The last few years have seen some provincial governments introduce public/private partnerships (P3s) for the development and operation of healthcare facilities. One such case involves the redevelopment of the Royal Ottawa Hospital.

Teaching Common Emergencies to Medical Students:An Experience

Introduction. The medical emergencies need not only clinical skills but also proper capabilities of the physicians. Meanwhile, researches show that young physicians are not properly trained to encounter the events threatening patients' lives. So, this study was designed to investigate the effect of an innovative emergencies course on clinical skills of medical students facing emergency patients...

International Teaching Experience

Teaching Ethics to Engineers: A Socratic Experience

In this paper we present the authors' experience of teaching a course in Ethics for Engineers, which has been delivered four times in three different universities in Spain and Chile. We begin by presenting the material context of the course (its place within the university program, the number of students attending, its duration, etc.), and especially the intellectual background of the participa...

Teaching Global Software Engineering - A Practical Experience

Since software is no longer developed by one enterprise which is located at one single site only, modern software engineers have to strive for distinct skills and capabilities allowing them to work together on a global scale. When conjointly designing, implementing, and testing different software components, these distributed engineers will also have to contribute their local know-how and count...