For most of us who attended medical school more than 10 years ago, there was a course called ‘‘pathology’’ in the curriculum. The focus of the pathology course in most schools was almost exclusively anatomic pathology. The anatomic pathology of the myocardial infarction and the scar that evolves from it was shown to us with little information on troponin testing, despite the increasing difficul...

In the late-1990s, education policymakers began a process of curriculum reform with the goal of transforming Chinese schooling from exam-oriented education to student-centered learning. Traditional education practices have expected students to passively accept and memorize material presented by teachers, and to reproduce the knowledge on often high-stakes examinations. The new curriculum is des...

“Student-centered” reform of teaching methods, curriculum systems, and assessment the cultivation high-level applied talents have become core content higher education in new development stage. The traditional economic management courses method has considerably limited effect on stimulating students’ curiosity, improving independent-learning ability, cultivating innovation consciousness, promoti...

In this paper we use a critically reflexive research approach to analyze our efforts to implement transformative learning in food systems education in a land grant university by applying scholarly tools to the teaching processes and its learning outcomes. As a team of learners across the educational hierarchy, we evaluate our efforts of creating transformational learning outcomes through facili...

Teaching anatomy is becoming increasingly challenging due to the progressive evolution of university teaching missions, student populations, medical and undergraduate curricula, coupled with a paucity of empirically tested evidence-based instructional practices in the anatomical and medical education literature. As a mechanism to confront these pedagogical challenges, recent advances in educati...