There is a long distance between the actual worldwide reality in advanced chronic kidney disease care and the desire of how these patients should be managed to decrease cardiovascular and general morbidity and mortality. Implementation of adequate infrastructures may improve clinical outcomes and increase the use of home renal replacement therapies (RRT). Current pitfalls should be addressed to...

This article describes the transition of an oral and maxillofacial radiology course from a traditional lecture format to an interactive case-based, team-based, interdisciplinary, and intraprofessional learning model in advanced dental education. Forty-four postdoctoral dental students were enrolled in the course over a twelve-week period in the fall semester 2012. The class consisted of U.S.- a...

The Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) provides standards for colleges of pharmacy to assist in the provision of pharmacy education to student pharmacists. An integral part of all college educational programs includes the provision of experiential learning. Experiential learning allows students to gain real-world experience in direct patient care during completion of the curric...

Distance education is becoming ever more important in providing continuing post basic, and especially postgraduate, education to practising professional persons, including nurses. As more and more institutions in the Republic of South Africa offer distance education courses to nurses, it is essential to take note of the positive and negative experiences of successful graduates of these programm...

This paper finds that fertility responds to productivity differently depending upon the economy’s stage of development. At low levels of development, productivity increases will increase fertility while at the more advanced stages of development, productivity increases lower fertility. During the process there may be important interaction effects between productivity and education demand. Incre...

This study presents the potential use of Greek School Network (GSN) in order to provide a robust and versatile e-learning course for computer science educators, allowing the exploitation of advanced IT services and establishing a modern and attractive education environment in the Greek Society. ! time Scheduling and Tele-Education Platform (t-STEP) is introduced that compensates the growing nee...

Expanding the Possibilities of Deliberation: The Use of Data Mining for Strengthening Democracy with an Application to Education Reform Juan D. Velásquez a; Pablo González b a Department of Industrial Engineering, School of Engineering and Science, University of Chile, Santiago, Región Metropolitana, Chile b Center for Applied Economics, Department of Industrial Engineering, School of Engineeri...

The document The State of Education in Latin America and the Caribbean: Towards a Quality Education for All – 2015 was produced under the supervision of the UNESCO Bureau in Santiago, by a group of researchers from the University of Chile’s Centre for Advanced Education Research: Cristián Bellei (coordinator), Ximena Poblete, Paulina Sepúlveda, Víctor Orellana and Geraldine Abarca. The report i...

The leadership efforts in this complex process emphasize the importance of communication, education and buy-in to implement advanced access in a group practice network. These key components, along with timely feedback, staff support and necessary resources, are especially significant when the end point and the benefits are not immediately apparent to those directly affected by the change. Once ...