OBJECTIVES To explore a pharmacy school curriculum for opportunities for student engagement and to determine how these might shape student identity as pharmacists. METHODS The learning aims and objectives and methods of assessment from the curriculum of a bachelor of pharmacy (BPharm) program were collected and a concept map was generated. The concept map was interpreted using Barnett and Coa...

BACKGROUND To manage the voluminous formal curriculum content in a limited amount of structured teaching time, we describe the development and evaluation of a curriculum map for academic half days (AHD) in a core internal medicine residency program. METHODS We created a 3-year cyclical curriculum map (an educational tool combining the content, methodology and timetabling of structured teachin...

BACKGROUND During the last 5 years a fundamental curriculum reform was realized at the medical school of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University. In contrast to those efforts, the learning objectives were not defined consistently for the curriculum and important questions concerning the curriculum could not be answered. This also applied to Occupational and Environmental Medicine where teachers of bo...

We present a system that displays a curriculum vitae with a map to understand people. Our method is based on the following processes: (1) creating curriculum vitae using related work [1], (2) extracting the names of places where the person studied and worked from the vitae, (3) getting such location information as latitudes, longitudes, and addresses from the place names using Google Maps API, ...

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...