The work reported herein was supported in part by the Educational Research and Development Center program, agreement number R309A60001, CFDA 84.309A, as administered by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education. The findings and opinions expressed in the report do not reflect the position or policies of OERI or the U.S. Department of Education. Publ...

On 11 June 1910, an editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) announced to those who had ‘been awaiting with eager interest’ that the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching had released its report on the status of medical education in the USA and Canada. The editorial suggested ‘that the Carnegie Foundation is in a position in which it may exert a powerful...

Evaluating educational programs using traditional methods such as questionnaires and interviews require several trained workers. Therefore, we developed a voice separation system using the Microsoft Kinect sensor for support education research. This system records the voice of the learner in the evaluator’s absence and identifies the learner’s reaction by combining a position measurement techni...

Industrial arts/technology education (IA/TE) is in a crisis a crisis caused largely by the increasing changes that are occurring within society and technology. In the past five years, national, state, and local commissions, organizations, and educators have developed countless documents, curricula, and workshops on the subject of technology education (International Technology Education Associat...

Norman’s essay on ‘Chaos, complexity and complicatedness’ in this issue of Medical Education offers an eloquent description of the reductionist position in medical education. The author’s argument is articulate and provides an impressive set of elaborations and clarifications regarding several scientific concepts that I and others have invoked in recent discussions on the epistemologies of medi...

Die in den letzten Jahren stark gewachsene Gesellschaft für Medizinische Ausbildung (GMA) ist eine wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, deren besonderes Anliegen die Qualitätsentwicklung der Ausbildung an den Medizinischen Fakultäten und in der Gesundheitsversorgung ist. Die GMA will zu einer Professionalisierung der Lehre beitragen. Im Bewusstsein, dass die Berufungsverfahren für Professorinnen und...

background and purpose: the objective of medical education is to train competent and qualified workforce in order to provide services in various health environments. one of the important objectives of operating room students is to train workforce who can involve in patient’s health and recovery. training these students should cause clinical ability and independent decision making during surgery...

The classroom needs to be upgraded. With many advances in Augmented Reality projects for education and with the explosion of more interactive input devices (touch, vision), we describe our position that smart desks should be part of the vision of the 21st century classroom. We introduce the Smart Learning Desk to showcase our position about smart desks in the classroom. We also describe two pos...

Socioeconomic position Resources, material and others, within virtually all human societies are unequally distributed. The ability of an individual to access resources is strongly related to their position within the social hierarchy of that society. Following the theoretical framework of Weber, the position within the social hierarchy (socioeconomic position) can be seen as being determined by...