Mandana Shirazi, Sagar V. Parikh, Ideh Dadgaran, Charlotte Silén Education Development Center, Medical Education Department, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Departments of LIME and Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Medical-Surgical Nursing Department, Langroud Nursing and Midwifery...

The conceptual framework and initial steps taken by a project that aims to incorporate computational scientific thinking into the university-level classes taken by preservice and in-service teachers (education majors) are described. The project is called INSTANCES, an almost-acronym for incorporating computational scientific thinking advances into education and science courses, and is supported...

Complexity permeates every aspect of contemporary healthcare, challenging the delivery of medical education [1]. Gormley and Fenwick [2] invite us to reflect on how we can help individual learners to see what’s in front of them when they face complexity. Instead of saying, ‘well, everything is just so chaotic’, the authors offer a practical application of complexity theory that facilitates unde...

BACKGROUND The role of nurse educators in the development of students' critical thinking has been overlooked despite the emphasized need for effective teaching methods. METHOD An integrative review was performed to examine both quantitative and qualitative research published from 2000 to 2015 related to nurse educators' critical thinking. RESULTS Many barriers and facilitators existing on i...

Several of the continuing education (CE) options offered at the 2009 American Massage Therapy Association National Convention represented the Research Track sponsored by the Massage Therapy Foundation. Included among these CE options were these sessions (presenters indicated parenthetically): Learning Through Clinical Research (Douglas Nelson and James Ivaska); Research Rocks (Angela Palmier an...