Vocational education in Hungary has seen significant changes over the past 20 years. However, the adaptivity of the system is largely aggravated by certain problems of content, compensation and selection. As a result, the success of Hungarian public education, as shown by PISA research, lags far behind its possibilities. In our present paper the adaptive model of vocational education is outline...

This paper aims to increase understanding and appreciation of formative assessment and its role in improving student outcomes and the instructional process, while educating faculty on formative techniques readily adaptable to various educational settings. Included are a definition of formative assessment and the distinction between formative and summative assessment. Various formative assessmen...

Interest in the use of the progress examination has grown in the current culture of accountability in higher education. The Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education’s (ACPE’s) Standards 2007 calls for comprehensive, knowledgeand performance-based examinations as part of a school or college of pharmacy’s evaluation and assessment of student learning. Progress examinations have been used prim...

BACKGROUND Continuing education is one of the modern strategies to maintain and elevate knowledge and professional skills of nurses which in turn elevate the health status of society. Since several factors affect nurses' participation in continuing education, it's essential to know promoters and obstacles in this issue and plan accordingly. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, 361 Iranian n...

Interprofessional Education: Definitions, Student Competencies, and Guidelines for Implementation Shauna M. Buring, PharmD, Alok Bhushan, PhD, Amy Broeseker, PhD, Susan Conway, PharmD, Wendy Duncan-Hewitt, PhD, Laura Hansen, PharmD, and Sarah Westberg, PharmD University of Cincinnati Winkle College of Pharmacy College of Pharmacy, Idaho State University Samford University McWhorter School of Ph...

The aim of this study was to provide a clinical pharmacy education program at Masih Daneshvari hospital, a University affiliated hospital, located in Tehran, Iran. For this purpose, the most common pharmacist involved interventions and aspects of potential fields for pharmacy students and residents education was firstly identified. Clinical pharmacy interventions and drug information forms wer...

The aim of this study was to provide a clinical pharmacy education program at Masih Daneshvari hospital, a University affiliated hospital, located in Tehran, Iran. For this purpose, the most common pharmacist involved interventions and aspects of potential fields for pharmacy students and residents education was firstly identified. Clinical pharmacy interventions and drug information forms wer...

After 1948 the Romanian higher education entered a period of important developments, controlled by the communist regime, which meant thathigher educationinstitutions autonomy was severely obstructed, while politicalpurges affected the teaching staff and students alike. Nevertheless, new types of higher education were introduced and new institutions of higher education and specializations were e...

OBJECTIVES To describe and compare perceptions of key informants representing U.S. colleges/schools of pharmacy and community pharmacy practice sites regarding (1) value associated with community pharmacy residency programs (CPRPs) and (2) barriers to offering CPRPs . DESIGN Descriptive, non-experimental, cross-sectional study. SETTING United States, June 13, 2009, through July 13, 2009. ...

In the past decade, Canadian pharmacy education and training programs have adopted competency-based frameworks for practice and education. However, there remains a lack of standardization and harmony across the multiple sets of standards that guide pharmacy practice and education. In addition to various provincial standards, there are currently 3 national standards of practice governing the dev...