BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE A survey in 2005 determined the hours of mandatory geriatrics content in Canadian undergraduate and postgraduate medical curricula. The present survey was undertaken to update these data for 2008-9. METHODS A survey was sent to a designated geriatrician at each medical school. RESULTS The mandatory geriatrics content of the undergraduate curricula ranged between 10 an...

Causes of the Gap between Junior High School Intended, Implemented, and Attained Curricula and Ways of Bridging It   M.A. Jamaalifar* S. Sh. HaashemiMoghadam, Ph.D.** Z. Aabedi Karajibaan, Ph.D.*** A.R. Faghihi, Ph.D.****   To identify the causes of the perceived gap between junior high school intended, implemented, and attained curricula, a group of 30 curriculum planners, 50 educationa...

BACKGROUND The role of health systems research (HSR) in informing and guiding national programs and policies has been increasingly recognized. Yet, many universities in sub-Saharan African countries have relatively limited capacity to teach HSR. Seven schools of public health (SPHs) in East and Central Africa undertook an HSR institutional capacity assessment, which included a review of current...

Abstract The influence of digitalisation on society and the workplace require stakeholders in school development to incorporate digital competencies into curricula. This study examines occurrence components 831 curricula vocational schools Baden-Württemberg, Germany with a text mining approach analysis keywords context. In total, 200 containing features could be identified. terms differs notabl...

Background An assessment in 2011 identified the need to incorporate supply chain management (SCM) in academic curricula for health care workers in Tanzania. As a result, a competency-based curricula was developed for pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, clinical officers and nursing cadres. An initiative to train pharmacy graduates in SCM as part of their professional training was thereafter emba...

There is increasing evidence that oral health is a critical component of overall health and that poor oral health may lead to initiation or exacerbation of chronic inflammatory diseases/conditions and adverse pregnancy outcomes. Added to this is an increasing awareness that among non-dental health care professions curricula (e.g., medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and allied health) there is an appa...

Appropriately trained Human Resources for Health (HRH) are key inputs into One Health. '… more than 50% of all infectious diseases of humans originate from animals and that, of the emerging diseases about 75% could be traced back to animal origin' (Rweyemamu et al. 2006). A comprehensive understanding of the social determinants of health, through an appropriate training model for HRH, is a key ...

The purpose of this article is to respond to Dr. Charles Bertolami's article "Why Our Ethics Curricula Don't Work" in the April 2004 issue of the Journal of Dental Education. This article analyzes the arguments put forth by Bertolami and challenges his assumptions and conclusions. Several examples are given of the ways in which our current ethics curricula do, in fact, work.

Engineering is a serving profession. During the last century, engineering curricula have become technology and process focused to the detriment of the “soft skills” so necessary for a professional. This paper proposes that engineering curricula undergo major revisions to return to the original service mission of the profession. The key elements for a renaissance within engineering education are...

Evidence-based practice (EBP) remains a relatively new concept to nursing, creating many challenges in relation to curriculum evaluation. Most of the available literature on EBP focuses to a great extent on clinical practice. There is limited literature available addressing the incorporation of EBP into nursing curricula, particularly at the undergraduate level. Existing literature highlights d...