Currently in North America, there is an active dialogue going on about the state of predoctoral dental education and the need for curriculum change, innovation, and the adoption of contemporary, competency-based educational models. At the institutional level, curriculum committees struggle with requests from faculty to add new content to an overburdened didactic and clinic schedule. This articl...

This article compares the social settings and teaching organization of two differently structured childbirth education courses in Cagliari, Italy, in order to understand how social processes and contexts work to negotiate authoritative knowledge. Although the explicit goal of both courses was to transmit biomedical knowledge, knowledge based in women's experience nonetheless dominated some cour...

health statistics demonstrate remarkable progresses in the field of primary health care and academic education in iran within recent decades. iran has also had obvious progresses in the field of research and the international publication rate of iranian scientists has been quadrupled over the past decade. progresses in biomedical researches have been associated with considerable activities in b...

Problem Programs that encourage scholarly activities beyond the core curriculum and traditional biomedical research are now commonplace among US medical schools. Few studies have generated outcome data for these programs. The goal of the present study was to address this gap. Intervention The Scholarly Concentration (SC) Program, established in 2006 at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown ...

A new frontier of manufacturing research, biomedical manufacturing, is presented. Advanced manufacturing technologies, such as manufacturing processes, systems, and quality control, can be readily applied to improve the safety, quality, cost, efficiency, and speed of healthcare service and biomedical research. The analogy of the hospital as a factory is explored to broadly and inclusively defin...

We report on 2.5 years of successfully using Mathemat ica as a high-level rapid prototyping tool in education and research of biomedical image analysis.

Objective: To explore ways for college students majoring in bio-medicine to improve their English education level. Method: By comprehensively analyzing the current situation and bottleneck issues of learning from perspectives English, educators, students, connections. Result: Chinese biomedical undergraduates postgraduates need further English. University faces many problems, which require teac...