BACKGROUND To design and implement an emergency medicine (EM) postgraduate training curriculum to support the establishment of the first EM residency program at Addis Ababa University (AAU). METHODS In response to the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health mandate to develop EM services in Ethiopia, University of Toronto EM faculty were invited to develop and deliver EM content and expertise fo...

this article deals with the engineering education of mechatronic in the different universities of canada, while every educational aspect of their curriculum is described in detail. this study shows that the desing of any educational program to some extend depends on the department where the program is carried out and the cooperation and help of the other departments. it seems that gradually thi...

BACKGROUND Cancer-related pain continues to be a major healthcare issue worldwide. Despite the availability of effective analgesic drugs, published guidelines and educational programs for Health Care Professionals (HCPs) the symptom is still under-diagnosed and its treatment is not appropriate in many patients. The objective of the study is to evaluate the efficacy of the Pac-IFicO programme in...

We evaluated the Advanced Placement (AP) program from the point of view of intellectually precocious youth and their subsequent educational-vocational outcomes, analyzing normative and idiographic longitudinal data collected across 30 years from 3,937 participants. Most took AP courses in high school, and those who did frequently nominated an AP course as their favorite. Students who took AP co...

this study aimed to examine the effectiveness of educational program, which is based on seven educational principles of the prophet mohammad, on the social skills of 5 to 6 year old children. the present study was semi experimental with pretest-posttest and control group. the study population consisted of all families with 5 to 6 year old children in the 1500 household are of koshtargah in shah...

BACKGROUND The increasing complexity of medical training often requires faculty members with educational expertise to address issues of curriculum design, instructional methods, assessment, program evaluation, faculty development, and educational scholarship, among others. DISCUSSION In 2007, The Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada responded to this need by establishing the first...

Introduction. Cigarette smoking contributes to the deaths of more than 400,000 Americans annually. Each day >3,000 children and adolescents become regular smokers. This paper details a new antitobacco educational program titled "AntE Tobacco" Method. Children in grades 1-3 were administered a 10-item questionnaire to ascertain their baseline knowledge about the ill effects of smoking, shown an ...