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The purpose of this study is to analyze the degree of globalization of important indicators of education system in Iran including teaching approaches, educational tools and facilities, curriculums and contents, and education management. Findings suggest that the situation of Iranian education system has some distance with the globalized level and post modernism and is more aligned with traditio...

background : despite its inevitable significance, the effect of in-service english education on medical professionals has rarely been studied longitudinally. the reason can be issues such as physicians’ heavy workload, commuting problems, inappropriate class times, and inexperienced teaching staff. methods : a needs assessment worksheet was administered   to faculty members of shahid beheshti u...

one of the important issues for the majority of the planners is the optimized concentration and distribution of service centers. the well-balanced distribution of these centers and services need appropriate site selection so that all walks of life have easy access to these services. from among service centers, site selection for higher education centers is important in terms of their importance...

INTRODUCTION The US Public Health Service calls for health professionals to provide tobacco dependence counseling for patients. The purpose of this study was to understand how dental hygiene programs make decisions about and provide training for tobacco dependence counseling to help them graduate more fully competent hygienists. METHODS We conducted interviews (N = 32) with mainly program and...

BACKGROUND Several medical schools have implemented programs aimed at supporting clinician-educators with formal mentoring, training, and experience in undergraduate medical teaching. However, consensus program design has yet to be established, and the effectiveness of these programs in terms of producing quality clinician-educator teaching remains unclear. The goal of this study was to review ...

In this paper, the authors first discuss the main rationales of situated cognition and its connections with innovation in teacher education. The challenges that might occur in applying situated cognition in teacher education programs, including insufficient opportunities for cognition apprenticeship, limited social interactions, and constraints in microteaching, are then presented. Correspondin...

There are compelling data available, both for the rapidly expanding older adult population, and for the value of evidence-based health promotion and disease management programs (EBHPs). The systems approach to transforming our aging services delivery system has been brilliant, but there is an important system missing – our educational system. Building the infrastructure to create embedded and a...