PURPOSE To measure pediatric program directors' (PDs') and trainees' perceptions of and expectations for the balance of service and education in their training programs. METHOD In fall 2011, an electronic survey was sent to PDs and trainees at Boston Children's Hospital. Respondents described perceptions and expectations for service and education and rated the education and service inherent t...

It is the position of the National Association of EMS Educators (NAEMSE) that continuing medical education (CME) is a valuable and essential component of assuring competent, efficacious, and contemporary patient care. This position is based on our belief that emergency medical services (EMS) professionals benefit by their involvement in CME because it provides exposure to the latest technologie...

Open-ended admission policies to professional education programs, and particularly the admission of candidates with certain types of disabilities, have profound implications for teacher-education programs. Such policies and practices affect the entire educational community, including faculty members, university and faculty administrators, school partners, and pre-service teacher-education candi...

One of the forms in service innovation for universities in Taiwan is to develop transnational education such as offshore programs where the existent programs were re-innovated by providing new service processes including improved delivery or distribution methods. This study examined how the universities adopted this form of innovation and examined how they productize their offshore programs, co...

Environmental service-learning is an intentional educational experience(s) wherein learners engage in meaningful activities designed to serve the environment. Environmental service-learning activities vary according to their learning and service goals and include ecomanagement, persuasion, legal action, economic action and political action. The purpose of this mixed methods research was to expl...

Interpreting changing levels of self-efficacy while improving effective teaching behaviors can be one goal of teacher education programs. Undergraduate education majors often begin their teacher education programs with high levels of self-efficacy (a belief in one’s capabilities). These levels of self-efficacy frequently decline as pre-service teachers progress through their curriculum and make...

The aim of this study was to investigate pre-service physical education teachers’ self-assessment of their competent levels in achieving the national standards for beginning physical education teachers (National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE), 1995). One hundred seventy–three pre-service teachers in 10 physical education teacher education programs completed the Achieving t...