Nurses are positioned to play a significant role in oral health promotion and disease prevention across the life cycle. Oral health has not been a high priority in nursing practice, and educating nurses about oral health has been inadequate particularly regarding the interrelationship between oral health and overall health. The first step for developing a nursing workforce with core competencie...

BACKGROUND Undergraduate medical education is beginning to concern itself with educating students about professional attributes as well as about clinical knowledge and skills. Defining these characteristics, and in particular seeking the help of the students themselves to define them, can be a useful starting point when considering how to incorporate aspects of professional behaviour into the m...

There is a need to change the curricula of university chemical faculties, to include proecological information into any and all specialized disciplines to the highest possible degree. Proecological education is particularly important in the case of educating future chemists and chemical engineers. The general statements are illustrated by the example of the Chemical Faculty, Technical Universit...