Curricula: already too comprehensive

Palliative care education in Swiss undergraduate medical curricula: a case of too little, too early.

Palliative medicine education is an important strategy in ensuring that the needs of terminally ill patients are met. A review was conducted in 2007 of the undergraduate curricula of all five of Switzerland's medical schools to identify their palliative care-related content and characteristics. The average number of mandatory hours of palliative care education is 10.2 h (median 8 h; range 0-27 ...

Securing A Small Academic Computing Environment, or, What to Do When It's Already Too Late

Comprehensive geriatric assessment: is it too comprehensive for compliance and cost-effectiveness?

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Evaluating the quality of work- integrated learning curricula: a comprehensive framework

There are many different forms that work-integrated learning (WIL) takes, and variants go by a range of different names. Based on current literature key dimensions, shared by the various and disparate forms of WIL curricula, were identified and operationalised in a measurement model. The key dimensions identified were: authenticity; integrated learning supports (both at university and the workp...

Happiness: enough already.

The plural of anecdote is not data, as scientists will tell you, but consider these snapshots of the emerging happiness debate anyway: Lately, Jerome Wakefield's students have been coming up to him after they break up with a boyfriend or girlfriend, and not because they want him to recommend a therapist. Wakefield, a professor at New York University, coauthored the 2007 book "The Loss of Sadnes...