The Colleges and Faculties of Occupational and Environmental Medicine largely developed to meet the need of postgraduate training in the discipline, and this function remains central to their role in 2010. To this end, a number of these organizations have examined the training curriculum and pathways in their countries and within the last few years have developed new curricula. The Australasian...

The globalisation of trade and food, the increased volume and speed of international travel, climate change, and the related escalation of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases mean that countries are now more interconnected and interdependent than ever before. Africa is beleaguered by a range of endemic infectious and parasitic tropical diseases which, due to its diverse wildlife popula...

Over the years, there have been numerous definitions of curriculum integration, where the curriculum is interwoven, connected, thematic, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, correlated, linked, and holistic (Fogarty and Pete 2007). Curriculum integration is based on both philosophy and practicality, drawing together knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values from within or across subject areas t...

BACKGROUND To design and implement an emergency medicine (EM) postgraduate training curriculum to support the establishment of the first EM residency program at Addis Ababa University (AAU). METHODS In response to the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health mandate to develop EM services in Ethiopia, University of Toronto EM faculty were invited to develop and deliver EM content and expertise fo...

This paper presents an overview of current or recently completed initiatives to create, structure, or help foster curricula for the on-going vocational training of information professionals with the aim of informing the implementation of DigCurV’s curriculum framework. The initiatives examined include the Digital Curation Centre, DaMSSI (Research Data Management Skills Support Initiative), DigC...

This paper analyzed the personnel training situation of electrical engineering application profession of the applied colleges, and explored the CDIO engineering education reform of electrical engineering profession, and put forward a set of scheme of curriculum education system based on CDIO education philosophy, and has gradually improved the training mode of personnel training and the student...

This paper presents a novel approach towards training with game elements in an interactive environment by means of OpenCrimeScene, a virtual 3D training system for crime scene investigation (CSI). The application is designed to supplement the curriculum for self-study and as a basis for group discussion. To facilitate curriculum integration, the interactive environment has been made suitable fo...

The field of structural heart disease (SHD) intervention has grown rapidly over the past several years. While training program content, standards, credentialing, and board examinations for percutaneous coronary intervention have matured and become well developed, no such structure exists in the field of SHD. Recognition of the need for training program standards and SHD curriculum stimulated th...