in order to improve the quality of education in universities of medical sciences (ums), and because of the key role of education development centers (edcs), an accreditation scheme was developed to evaluate their performance.a group of experts in the medical education field was selected based on pre-defined criteria by edc of ministry of health and medical education. the team, worked intensivel...

and to the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project No.: 70773119), the National Social Science Foundation of China (Project No.: 08AJL006), the Humanities and Social Science Foundation, Ministry of Education of China (Project No.: 08JC790032), and Project 985, Hunan University, for research support. We especially thank Peter Oliver, University of Nottingham, but remain responsible...

Political science is falling behind a broad movement in the United States that seeks to reform the teaching of scientifi c literacy in undergraduate education. Indeed, political science is far behind that movement because the discipline does not have a collective commitment to science education at the undergraduate level. This article discusses prominent eff orts in this reform movement and ass...