Technology-Enhanced Faculty Development: Future Trends and Possibilities for Health Sciences Education

Faculty Development in Academic Health Sciences

Medical education and faculty development: a new role for the health sciences librarian.

This paper describes the roles and responsibilities of the associate director for medical education at the Primary Care Resource Center (PCRC), School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo (UB). The PCRC was established to increase the number of UB medical school graduates who selected graduate medical education in the generalist disciplines. The associate...

Health education, recent and future trends.

During the past, Health Education has been taking place in a variety of ways: prevention, monitoring and control of potentially epidemic diseases. New trends have been arising (such as 'health corners', interdisciplinary activities, exhibit, 'mini-university' for children, etc.). But it is important to discuss what 'Health Education' means, and define 'health' and rethink educational strategies...

Stone treatments: current trends and future possibilities.

With the widespread distribution of shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) by the late 1980s, this noninvasive technology became the preferred approach to most patients with symptomatic urolithiasis. The extraordinary success of the original Dornier HM3 lithotriptor had tremendous appeal to patients and physicians alike. SWL was established as the preferred initial treatment approach for 80% to 90% of ca...

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Primary objective: To investigate emotional distress and quality of life in a sample of Danish relatives of patients with severebrain injury at admission to intensive rehabilitation in the sub-acute phase.Research design: Clinical convenience sample.Methods and procedures: Participants included 31 primary relatives of patients with severe brain injury. The participants werer...