What Students Learn About Professionalism From Faculty Stories: An “Appreciative Inquiry” Approach

Discovering what works well: exploring quality dementia care in hospital wards using an appreciative inquiry approach.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To explore the quality dementia care in two geriatric hospital wards using appreciative inquiry with formal care workers and family members of inpatients with dementia. BACKGROUND Care models such as person-centred and relationship-centred care have been developed to explain what 'quality' dementia care should be. However, their usefulness and relevance to clinicians has b...

Your professionalism is not my professionalism: congruence and variance in the views of medical students and faculty about professionalism

BACKGROUND Medical professionalism is an essential aspect of medical education and practice worldwide and it must be adopted according to different social and cultural contexts. We examined the current congruence and variance in the perception of professionalism in undergraduate medical students and faculty members in one medical school in Saudi Arabia. METHODS The target population was first...

Restoring professionalism: What can Public Administration learn from Social Psychology?

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What do upper secondary students learn about evolution from an animation of antibiotic resistance ?

What do faculty and students really think about e-books?

This article reports on a large-scale survey of nearly two thousand faculty and students at one institution, University College London, and profiles their use and perceptions of ebooks. The context for the study is an action research project, CIBER’s SuperBook, that will further investigate the issues raised in this initial benchmarking survey using deep log analysis and qualitative methods. Th...