BACKGROUND Globalization of the professions has become a necessity among schools and universities across the world. It has affected the medical and dental professions in terms of curriculum design and student and patient needs. In Japan, where medicine and dentistry are taught mainly in the Japanese language, profession-based courses in English, known as Medical English and Dental English, have...

Despite the rapid expansion of interest in competency-based assessment, few descriptions of assessment systems specifically designed for a competency-based curriculum have been reported. The purpose of this article is to describe the design of a portfolio approach to a comprehensive, competency-based assessment system that is fully integrated with the curriculum to foster an educational environ...

OBJECTIVE To examine students' attitudes and potential behaviour to a possible intimate relationship with a patient as they pass through a modern medical curriculum. DESIGN A cohort study of students entering Glasgow University's new learner centred, integrated medical curriculum in October 1996. METHODS Students' pre year 1 and post year 1, post year 3, and post year 5 responses to the "at...

Long term care facilities are important sites of care for elderly adults. Despite a growing need and interest in medical direction in nursing homes, there have been limited educational opportunities in this area for geriatric medicine fellows. This article describes a novel medical director's curriculum for first-year geriatric medicine fellows to prepare them for the role of nursing home medic...

Problem-based learning can be integrated into the curriculum in many different ways. We compare three examples of problem-based learning in undergraduate astrophysics programmes, and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the various approaches.

INTRODUCTION In an attempt to address the rural medical workforce maldistribution and the concurrent inappropriate caseload at the urban tertiary teaching hospitals, Flinders University and the Riverland Division of General Practice decided to pilot, in 1997, an entire year of undergraduate clinical curriculum in Australian rural general practice. This program is called the Parallel Rural Commu...

Business sustainability in all dimensions of economic, governance, social, ethical, and environmental (EGSEE) performance is gaining acceptance as many global stock exchanges either encourage or require their listed companies to issue sustainability reports and investors worldwide demand sustainability performance information. More than 8, 000 companies worldwide are disclosing various EGSEE di...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to provide an integrated curriculum model for the revitalization of primary schools. Methodology: The research is descriptive-survey in terms of nature and method of data collection and applied in terms of purpose. The statistical population of this research consists of professors and experts in the field of educational sciences and experts of the General Dep...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of the present study is to determine in what way a conventional versus a modern medical curriculum influences teaching delivery in formal radiology education. METHODS A web-based questionnaire was distributed by the ESR to radiology teaching staff from 93 European teaching institutions. RESULTS Early exposure to radiology in pre-clinical years is typically reported in...