SIR,-Many of the criticisms that Dr Jules Older levels against religious fundamentalists are undoubtedly justified (17 November, p 1359). He does, however, appear to run the risk of throwing out the baby with the bath water. Excessive and often misguided zeal is a characteristic of youth, and this is often accompanied by a narrow perspective of life, which is unduly critical of the views of oth...

The implementation of an implant dental curriculum in U.S. dental schools has been consistently increasing from 33 percent in 1974 to 97 percent in 2004. Among these, only 51 percent have clinical components implemented. A survey of students conducted in 2004 at New York University College of Dentistry (NYUCD) showed an inadequacy in clinical implant restoration experience by graduation. This p...

Changes in the education, research, and health care environments have had a major impact on the way in which medical schools fulfill their missions, and mission-based management approaches have been suggested to link the financial information of mission costs and revenues with measures of mission activity and productivity. The authors describe a simpler system, termed Mission-Aligned Planning (...

BACKGROUND Although students' transition into medical school is a critical step in their professional journey, orientation has been relatively under-researched, particularly with regard to its intersections with schools' social missions. This paper reports on a study looking at the implicit messages of orientation to the Northern Ontario School of Medicine's undergraduate program. METHODS An ...

INTRODUCTION This study examines the integration of community engagement and community-engaged scholarship at all accredited US and Canadian medical schools in order to better understand and assess their current state of engagement. METHODS A 32-question data abstraction instrument measured the role of community engagement and community-engaged scholarship as represented on the Web sites of a...

The Institute of Medicine's vision for health professions education specifies working together across professions and schools to provide patient-centered care. Improvement in collaborative preparation of health professionals is seen as central to achieving substantial improvement in the quality of health care. In this article, the authors address one central question: How can medical schools wo...

Small-scale, detailed exploration of the recruitment, assessment, and evaluation processes of obesity intervention among minority ethnic children. The study took place in schools and places of worship during 2008-2010 in London, UK. Measures included 3-day food diaries, 24 h dietary recalls, the Youth Physical Activity Questionnaire, accelerometry, and diet and physical activity self-efficacy q...

Definitions of ‘religious freedom’ around schools’ treatment lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer and asexual (LGBTIQA+) students have been regularly debated internationally, with little input from LGBTIQA+ students. Transformative theories religious freedom sex, gender sexuality in education suggest cannot counter equality. This study uses data the 2022 Gender Sexuality Express...

Internationally in secondary schools, lessons are typically taught by subject specialists, raising the question of how to accommodate teaching which bridges the sciences and humanities. This is the first study to look at how students make sense of the teaching they receive in two subjects (science and religious education [RE]) when one subject's curriculum explicitly refers to cross-disciplinar...