Biology is a core and required science subject offered at the upper secondary school level in Nigerian educational system. However, students’ attitude towards poor, trend probably due to use of teacher-centred strategies. Scholars have thus advocated for need adopt innovative strategies enhance biology. This study investigated consensus cooperative reflective journal writing enhancing attitudes...

PURPOSE Medical schools are increasingly aware of the ways in which physician empathy can have a profound impact on patients' lives and have developed humanities initiatives to address this concern. Reflective writing in particular is more commonly promoted in medical curricula, but there is limited research on the impact of reflective writing on medical student empathy levels. It aims to find ...

Research shows that student reflective writing is a valuable window into learning, particularly metacognition; however, our knowledge of the challenges accessing metacognition to inform curriculum design and assessment practices in ESL (English as Second Language) context less robust. This paper reports two qualitative studies on an course within teacher education programme. The investigate how...

Few medical journals specifically instruct authors to use the active voice and avoid the passive voice, but advice to that effect is common in the large number of stylebooks and blogs aimed at medical and scientific writers. Such advice typically revolves around arguments that the passive voice is less clear, less direct, and less concise than the active voice, that it conceals the identity of ...

The case report, which has a long history in medicine, has seen its fortune wax and wane with time. We discuss the challenges facing the continued survival of the case report, including the inability of journals to cope with the increased load and increased cost of publication, ethical issues, the impact factor and the rise of evidence-based medicine. We highlight the important role that the ca...