Canadian society values university education as evidenced by being ranked highest among Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) nations for the largest percentage of population (41%) aged 25-64 with college or university education (Statistics Canada, 2001b). Canadian woman have increasingly pursued university education, representing 56% of full time undergraduate and 48% o...

BACKGROUND Continuous training of teachers, in discipline and pedagogical topics, is a key step to improve the quality of educational processes. AIM To report the perception of Chilean teachers of undergraduate health care programs, about continuous training activities. MATERIAL AND METHODS Twenty teachers working at different undergraduate health care programs in Chile were interviewed. Ma...

This paper discusses undergraduate ethics education from the point of view of a learning-outcomes-centered approach to curriculum design. It aims to identify the kinds of learning-outcomes that Ethics Across the Curriculum programs ought to aim at and be judged successful by. The first section explains the learning-outcomes-centered approach to designing and evaluating curriculum proposals. The...

Economic analysis and instruction, at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, continue to employ more and more sophisticated mathematical methods, yet the technology typically used by students to solve economics problems analytically has not advanced much beyond pencil and paper. In the last decade or so, powerful software programs, generally called symbolic processors or computer algebra s...

OBJECTIVE To review the published scientific literature for studies quantifying or examining factors associated with the attrition of undergraduate nursing students in pre-registration programs and the retention of graduate nurses in the workforce. METHODS The following selection criteria were used to systematically search the literature: target populations were either students in pre-registr...

BACKGROUND Medical television programs offer students fictional representations of their chosen career. This study aimed to discover undergraduate medical students' viewing of medical television programs and students' perceptions of professionalism, ethics, realism and role models in the programs. The purpose was to consider implications for teaching strategies. METHODS A medical television s...

This article makes two different contributions: an analysis of learning styles among undergraduate students in different academic programs, and a proposed regrouping of programs in order to improve teaching practice. The study was conducted in Mexico City in a Mexican private university (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México ITAM), among a sampling of 753 first-year students in 11 undergradu...

The purpose of this article is to describe ways that legal psychology can be introduced into the undergraduate curriculum. The extent to which undergraduate "psychology and law" courses are currently a part of the curriculum is described, and a model is proposed for coursework in a Psychology Department that might adequately reflect coverage of the legal area. The role of legal psychology in in...

This paper describes an undergraduate major stream in Software Engineering embedded in a four year Bachelor of Computer Systems Engineering Degree. This major allows students to specialize in Software Engineering in their third and fourth years, with the result that some 60% of their time is dedicated to Computer Science and Software Engineering. This contrasts with the post graduate Master's p...