Innovations and best practice in undergraduate education

Work in progress - Improving the dissemination of CCLI (TUES) educational innovations

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Course Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Program (now the TUES program – Transforming Undergraduate Education in STEM) has produced a vast number of products and processes since its inception. The CCLI Program has fostered innovation nationwide and has worked to improve “quality of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) educatio...

Preparing new minds and communicating innovations in undergraduate neuroscience education: welcoming change in many forms.

Addressing the physicians’ shortage in developing countries by accelerating and reforming the medical education: Is it possible?

Introduction: Doctors’ shortage has remained a concernworldwide. The developed countries started aids to recruitinternational medical graduates (IMG) to cope with the defectsthat the health care system suffers from; however, this solution maynot work in developing countries that have a limited resource andpoor budget to spend on the health care system. This study aimsto present an alternative w...

The International Conference on Residency Education 2013

• New: International panel discussing top program director tips and techniques • Learn new skills and best practices for enhancing teaching and assessment • Examine competency-based medical education from a practical level • Review education techniques, innovations and research conducted worldwide

[Proposals of undergraduate and postgraduate education to raise stroke-conscious neurologists].

Neurologists play a central role in management of stroke patients. However, in Japan, the number of neurologists who are interested in stroke management is not sufficient. In this paper, to raise stroke-conscious neurologists, i.e., neurologists who willingly take care of stroke patients, the roles of undergraduate medical education and postgraduate neurological training are discussed. The key ...