When writing can change your life, when writing can enrich you by offering much money, why don't you try it? Are you still very confused of where getting the ideas? Do you still have no idea with what you are going to write? Now, you will need reading. A good writer is a good reader at once. You can define how you write depending on what books to read. This teaching rounds a visual aid to teach...

Lecturers have reverted to using a "blended" approach when teaching anatomy and physiology. Student responses as to how this contributes to their learning satisfaction were investigated using a self-administered questionnaire. The questionnaire consisted of closed- and open-ended questions that were based on three determinants of learning satisfaction: perceived course learnability, learning co...

Bradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust, Bradford, UK, School of Health Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK, Edinburgh Ethnicity and Health Research Group, Centre for Population Health Sciences, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough Un...

Evidence that training in community-based underserved settings is associated with a higher likelihood of practicing in those settings inspired the creation of the THCGME program, which has funded residency education in community health centers, rural health clinics, and tribal clinics since 2011.1 The 2014 American Board of Family Medicine census of family medicine residents who registered for ...

Awards for distinguished teaching during the 1971-72 academic year, made possible by funds presented annually to the University by the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation, have been presented to eight faculty members. Candidates for the awards are nominated by faculty and students, and screened by a faculty-student committee on the basis of their teaching and scholarship, as well as in...

(Fam Med 2003;35(16):13-4.) Editor’s Note: In this month’s column, Erika Schillinger, MD, and Samuel LeBaron, MD, PhD, of the Center for Education in Family and Community Medicine at Stanford University present an interesting approach to a common and perplexing teaching problem. I welcome your comments about this feature, which is also published on the STFM Web site at www.stfm.org. I also enco...

The Community-Oriented Public Health Practice (COPHP) program, a 2-year in-residence MPH degree program in the University of Washington School of Public Health, has partnered with Public Health-Seattle & King County (PHSKC) since 2002 to create a mutually beneficial set of programs to improve teaching and address community-based public health problems in a practice setting. The COPHP program us...

Use Case Modeling (UCM) has become an essential ingredient of computing courses, as it is widely used in object-oriented analysis and design. Although a simple concept, UCM is not straightforward to teach. We report on our experience gained in teaching students as a part of requirements engineering education at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Two case studies reveal a number of probl...