BACKGROUND In view of the changing health care needs of communities, curriculum reform of traditional curricula is inevitable. In order to allay the apprehension that may accompany such change, curriculum development and implementation should be an inclusive process, with both staff and students being well informed of the planned reform. In 2001, the Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine impleme...

Research has long recognized that many biases and shortcomings of humans severely limit their ability to accurately detect deception, and this may lead to great risks in government or military operations. One possible method to improve humans’ deception detection ability is to train them to recognize cues of deception. To do this, we need to create effective training curricula and educational t...

Overweight and obesity are increasing in preschool children in the US. Policy, systems, and environmental change interventions in childcare settings can improve obesity-related behaviors. The aim of this study was to develop and pilot an intervention to train childcare providers to promote physical activity (PA) in childcare classrooms. An evidence scan, key informant (n = 34) and focus group (...

BACKGROUND According to The Indonesian Medical Council, 2006, Indonesian competence-based medical curriculum should be oriented towards family medicine. We aimed to find out if the educational goal of patient-centered care within family medicine (comprehensive care and continuous care) were adequately transferred from the expected curriculum to implemented curriculum and teaching process. MET...

When the original TIMSS study was first released in 1997 preceding it was the report of the curriculum component. That report stressed the importance of curricular differences among countries in interpreting the cross national differences in achievement. One of the original findings achieved significant importance for possibly understanding the relatively poor performance of US students. That f...

INTRODUCTION The global human resources crisis in the rural health sector is characterized by an unwillingness or inability of health workers to locate to a rural area, and/or function effectively there. To assist in addressing this issue in Uganda, Makerere University Faculty of Medicine designed and implemented a problem-based learning (PBL) curriculum in which health students underwent exper...

INTRODUCTION As of 2001, the Philippines ranks 7th among the world's 22 countries with a heavy tuberculosis (TB) burden. As the country accelerates its campaign to control the global epidemic, the Philippine Tuberculosis Initiatives for the Private Sector (PhilTIPS) joined the efforts to combat it through the Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS) strategy and brought it to the level o...

This study examined the current format of curricula at North American dental schools, determined curriculum evaluation strategies, and identified recently implemented changes as well as planned future innovations. The academic affairs deans of sixty-four North American dental schools received an email survey in August 2002; a second, follow-up survey was sent to nonresponders in February 2003. ...

the general aim of this research was the investigation of central curriculum components in enhancement of university of tehran agriscience student employability which was implemented based on the survey methodology. the statistical sample in question was university of tehran agriscience postgraduate students that were in total 1491 cases. the sample size was determined as 310 persons through mo...