COMMUNITY EDUCATION INITIATIVES

Rhode Island's interprofessional education initiatives.

InterprofeSSIonal work wIth medICIne: methodS and reSultS In 2008, in an effort to continue to grow student learning partnerships, we approached the Director of the Office of Medical Education and the Associate Director of Preclinical Curriculum at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University (AMS) to discuss the potential to provide new collaborative learning opportunities for stud...

Will virtual education initiatives succeed?

The use of information technology to enhance teaching and learning processes has been practiced for a number of years now. However, the rapid growth in the use of the Internet has led to a new dimension in interactive and collaborative learning anytime and anyplace dynamically. With the explosion of “virtual education initiatives”, the question of the feasibility and success criteria for such p...

Continuing Education of Medical Community

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European initiatives in postgraduate education in gerontology.

This paper describes three innovative European initiatives in postgraduate education in gerontology. The first is the European Masters Program in Gerontology (EuMaG), developed as an interdisciplinary joint program, supported and delivered by 22 European universities. Second, the Nordplus initiative to increase mobility of students and staff in the field of gerontology in the European Nordic co...

Educational Reform and Current Education Initiatives