BACKGROUND A revolution in health care is occurring as a result of changes in the practice of medicine and in society. Medical education, if it is to keep up with the times, needs to adapt to society's changing attitudes. Presently medical education has been criticised for its orientation and insensitivity to people's need. The MBBS curriculum of medical institutions of Nepal has been focusing ...

The time lag between needs assessment and implementation of faculty development curricula assumes a certain stability of participants' individual and contextual needs which may not reflect the often complex and shifting priorities in health professional schools. In addition to the variability of issues they face, participants are typically better able to recognize and articulate their needs onc...

The relationship between periodontal disease and systemic disease has gained much attention in recent years in the dental profession and from national health care agencies. Two third-party providers are now modifying their dental reimbursements for patients who have periodontal disease and are pregnant or have cardiovascular disease. However, there are few reports in the dental or dental hygien...

Given their enormous socioeconomic burdens, lifestyle-related noncommunicable diseases (heart disease, cancer, chronic lung disease, hypertension, stroke, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and obesity) have become priorities for the World Health Organization and health service delivery systems. Health care systems have been criticized for relative inattention to the gap between knowledge and practice, ...

The Department of Family Medicine at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., recently undertook a pilot project to familiarize residents in family medicine with physician-related health policy issues. The objective of the project was to ease the residents' transition into practice and to equip them to participate effectively in future policy debates. All first-year residents assigned to a 4-month...

The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) Criteria Computing Commission Programs are based upon knowledge, presentation skills, communication team work leadership skills that the students gain through curriculum in a program. student outcomes (SOs) procured knowledge which accomplishes curriculum. Each program needs to have its own SOs evaluate it as per defined assessment c...

introduction: this study was carried out to analyze the viewpoint of the residents of school of dentistry about the curriculum presented in the residency program to students of mashhad school of dentistry. methods: to evaluate the perspectives of residents of dental school about the curriculum and regulations of residency program, a questionnaire was designed whose validity and reliability were...

This research focused on the relationships that teachers and students establish with curricular programs, tensions they experience, effects this has shaping classroom experience. The study employed a narrative approach using observation conversational interviews, fieldwork conducted over two school years teachers. It was found (1) teaching profession juggles between worlds (the program lived cu...

BACKGROUND Poverty is a key determinant of health that leads to poor health outcomes. Although most healthcare providers will work with patients experiencing poverty, surveys among healthcare students have reported a curriculum gap in this area. This study aims to introduce and evaluate a novel, student-run interprofessional inner city health educational program that combines both practical and...