BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE There has been much discussion concerning the relationship between an education in liberal arts and an education in a health profession. Some take a traditional view that the classics are the core of a liberal arts education, and therefore are separate from and preparatory for the professions.1 Others take a more contemporary view, such as using the arts or the humanities...

OBJECTIVES To develop and assess a learning object about intramuscular medication administration for nursing undergraduates and nurses. METHOD A random, intentional and non-probabilistic sample was selected of nurses from a Brazilian social network of nursing and students from the Undergraduate Program at the University of São Paulo School of Nursing to serve as research subjects and assess t...

The present work analyzes the perception that students, professors and users of the ambulatory have concerning the professional education in its ethical dimension, in two odontology course, a public and a private one from Bahia. It also aims to compare these perceptions with the observed ambulatory practice. With these purposes the following research instruments had been applied: questionnaires...

In Brazil, nursing professionals are trained based on the perspective of professional competencies. The objective of this exploratory, descriptive study was to identify the critical-emancipator potential of the competency, as described by the Brazilian Ministries of Education and of Health. The sources used for data collection were the regulating documents of technical professional education of...

Rabies remains a continuous threat to public health in Beijing. In this study, a total of 224 brain tissues were collected from suspected infected stray dogs within Beijing between January 2015 and December 2016. Among them, total of 67 samples were diagnosed positive for rabies. In the phylogenetic analysis, rabies in Beijing is currently a relatively independent public health issue originatin...

OBJECTIVE To ascertain differences in the working lives of geographically dispersed nurses. DESIGN Cross-sectional. SETTING Registered, enrolled and assistants-in-nursing members of the Queensland Nurses' Union employed in nursing in Queensland, Australia. PARTICIPANTS A total of 3000 members of the Union, equally stratified by sector (public, private, aged care). Among them, 1192 respond...

The Biochemistry Across the School Curriculum Group (BASC) was set up by the Biochemical Society in 1985. Its membership includes education professionals as well as Society members with an interest in school science education. Its first task has been to produce this series of booklets, designed to help teachers of syllabuses which have a high biochemical content. All BASC material is copyright ...

In late May, the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (CEJA) of the American Medical Association (AMA) released a draft report (henceforth "The Report") to provide "ethical guidance for physicians and the profession with respect to industry support for professional education in medicine.[1]" The report concluded that because "industry support of professional education has raised concerns tha...