STUDENTS 'PROFESSIONAL AND PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING

Professional identity in medical students: pedagogical challenges to medical education.

BACKGROUND Professional identity, or how a doctor thinks of himself or herself as a doctor, is considered to be as critical to medical education as the acquisition of skills and knowledge relevant to patient care. SUMMARY This article examines contemporary literature on the development of professional identity within medicine. Relevant theories of identity construction are explored and their ...

Virtual Reality Technology as an Didactical and Pedagogical Resource in Distance Education for Professional Training

Barriers to Faculty Pedagogical Change: Lack of Training, Time, Incentives, and…Tensions with Professional Identity?

Recent calls for reform, such as Vision and Change: A Call to Action, have described a vision to transform undergraduate biology education and have noted the need for faculty to promote this change toward a more iterative and evidence-based approach to teaching (American Association for the Advancement of Science [AAAS], 2011). A key challenge is convincing many faculty—not just a handful of fa...

Virtual Reality Technology as an Didactical and Pedagogical Resource in Distance Education for Professional Training

Ethical and Professional Issues Training for Students and Staff of Laboratory Medicine

Background : Medical Laboratory plays a critical role in maintaining and promoting health. Increasing wide applications of laboratory medicine in clinical practice have highlighted specific topics in the areas of social, professional and ethical issues in the laboratory. Despite the important role of clinical lab in health system, ethical issues have been rarely discussed for clinical labs. Con...