OBJECTIVE To implement an interactive workshop for final-year pharmacy students on patient counseling about antidiabetic medications and to assess its impact on knowledge and self-reported confidence of students in counseling. SUBJECTS AND METHODS The workshop was organized for all final-year pharmacy students (n = 27) during the academic year 2011-2012. It included various teaching and learn...

Since 2009, the Department of Physiology had planned an International Union of Physiological Sciences Physiology Teaching Workshop at Arabian Gulf University. The date was set for March 5-6, 2011; however, due to civil unrest, the workshop was postponed to March 31-April 1, 2012. The workshop was a success, bringing together 92 speakers and participants from 23 countries. Twenty-eight participa...

BACKGROUND Since 2008 the Verbundweiterbildung(plus) programme of the Competence Centre General Practice Baden-Wuerttemberg offers continual improvement with regards to content and structure of general practice training. The programme uses the didactical concept of the CanMEDs competencies, which were developed in Canada, as a postgraduate medical training framework. Train the trainer (TTT)-pro...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to explore the rationale for teaching sustainability and engineering ethics within a decision-making paradigm, and critically appraise ways of achieving related learning outcomes. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents the experience of the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney in teaching environmental sustainability and engineerin...

Introduction New standards in science and mathematics education in general and in chemistry education in particular are being advocated, standards which reflect the current vision of the content, classroom environment, teaching methods, and support necessary to provide a high quality education in the sciences for all students (NRC, 1996). In the past, conventional methods of conducting pre-serv...

The Teaching Spatial Thinking from Interdisciplinary Perspectives (TSTIP) workshop was held at COSIT 2015 in New Mexico, NM. The objective of the workshop was to bring together researchers from a diverse set of fields to address the issue of how to best promote teaching spatial thinking topics from interdisciplinary perspectives. The TSTIP workshop was one project that came out of the TSTIP Ini...