The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of using Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) on the learners’ achievement in L2 grammar and reading in an EFL context and to further  investigate  whether  the  students’  classroom  performances  would  predict  their  final exam  results.  To  conduct  this  study,  two  classes,  each  containing  30  female  students,  were selected  among ...

OBJECTIVE To examine students' attitudes and potential behaviour to a possible intimate relationship with a patient as they pass through a modern medical curriculum. DESIGN A cohort study of students entering Glasgow University's new learner centred, integrated medical curriculum in October 1996. METHODS Students' pre year 1 and post year 1, post year 3, and post year 5 responses to the "at...

For at least four decades there has been concern about the discontinuity between the discipline and practice of nursing. The learning traditions in nursing, including the traditional organization of professional educational curricula with an emphasis on general education, could be contributing to this discontinuity. Problem Based Learning (PBL) has been identified as one way to facilitate great...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES An informatics curriculum was developed by integrating evidence-based medicine, communication and behavioral sciences, patient education, and computer skills. Introduction of an electronic medical record (EMR) to our family practice center was a focal point of this training. Our objective was to measure whether the new curriculum improved our residents' informatics ski...

introduction: despite the importance of curriculum analysis for internal refinement of a programme, the approach for such a step in under-described in the literature. this article describes the analysis of the medical curriculum at the faculty of medicine, university of gezira (fmug). this analysis is crucial in the era of innovative medical education since introducing new curricula and curricu...