In 1989, the ERASMUS Bureau of the European Cultural Foundation of the Commission of the European Communities funded the development of a new 3-year curriculum for postgraduate education in orthodontics. The new curriculum was created by directors for orthodontic education representing 15 European countries. The curriculum entitled 'Three years Postgraduate Programme in Orthodontics: the Final ...

Improvements to postgraduate training have included newly designed postgraduate curricula, new forms of delivery of learning, more valid and reliable assessments, and more rigorous evaluation of training programmes. All these changes have been necessary and have now started to settle in. Now therefore is an appropriate time to look to the future of postgraduate training. Predicting the future i...

The academic growth of homoeopathic medicine justifies and depends upon adequate representation within the postgraduate curriculum of general practice. Its role and status within the health service requires this if it is to be an effective and well integrated therapeutic option for doctors and patients. Its approach to illness offers a perspective that enhances the general practitioner's tradit...

We tend to measure educational performance by students’ attainment in course work or examinations. In the case of professional education, the impact of the educational programme on the students’ own capacities to enhance their work practices, and the wider organizational effects of the students’ education and training, are also key ‘products’ of the educational process. This is particularly imp...

The Croatian Society of Medical Biochemists and Slovenian Association for Clinical Chemistry, together with the European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (EFCC), have organized the eight in a series of postgraduate weekend courses under the auspices of IFCC. The Course entitled “New Trends in Classification, Diagnosis and Management of Kidney Diseases” promotes continuin...

R. K. Gupta, M. Agarwal, M. Husain, N. Husain, K. N. Prasad, C. M. Pandey, and R. S. Rathore Radiodiagnosis, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India, Neurosurgery, CSMM University, Lucknow, India, Neuropathology, CSMM University, Lucknow, India, Microbiology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India, Biostatistics, Sanjay Gandhi P...

Although formal postgraduate medical education may be a recent phenomenon, many long-established medical societies throughout Britain have contributed to the continuing medical education of established practitioners while the specialist societies have made an immense contribution to the dissemination ofnew knowledge and many consultants regard these societies as the most valuable source ofnew k...

the purpose of the present research was to analyze the citation of sources of doctorate dissertations and postgraduate theses in physical education faculty, university of tehran (1386-87). for this purpose, 12618 citations in 145 doctorate dissertations and postgraduate theses of physical education faculty, university of tehran (1386-87) were investigated by citation analysis. spss and excel so...

Richard Wakeford, John Foulkes, Chris McManus, Wesley Southgate medical education (prospective students), to its providers (medical schools and their curriculum designers, postgraduate training schemes), and to its customers (medical care providers) if comparative output data on medical schools and postgraduate training were available. Without a national medical qualifying examination this is p...

BACKGROUND The objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) is a commonly used method of assessing clinical competence at various levels, including at the postgraduate level. How the OSCE impacts on learning in higher education is poorly described. In this study, we evaluated the perceptions of postgraduate trainees regarding the impact of the OSCE on their study and clinical behavior. ME...