The aim of the article is to examine the Academic Model United Nations (Model UN) as a context-based integrative educational technique in profession-oriented foreign language teaching (FLT); to point out the context-based integrative nature of profession-oriented language learning and highlight the importance of using product-based educational techniques in FLT for developing students’ future p...

This paper investigates the influence of integrative factors on psychotherapy education. The broad relevance of integrative psychotherapy to residency training and continuing mental health education is discussed. Following a review of the existing literature on the education of integrative psychotherapists, the article systematically examines the integrative and pedagogic issues to be considere...

Purpose An increasing number of academic health institutions are committed to integrative medicine (IM) principles, including partnership between patient and practitioner; collaborative, interprofessional health care; and promotion of health and the prevention of illness. The objective of this five-year project is to develop, implement, evaluate, and disseminate a multidisciplinary, interprofes...

Alternatives for the various philanthropists interested in changing medicine. In April of 2001, at Miraval in Tucson, Arizona, the two women brought together 25 physician leaders in integrative medicine with the same number of philanthropists. This event and the subsequent larger meeting at the Rockefeller Estate and Conference Center in Pocantico, New York, resulted in the formation of the Phi...

This article describes the effect of a four-questions technique used to enhance critical thinking in online discussions. Students in a graduate educational psychology course participated in three online asynchronous discussions in reaction to case studies. Prior to the second discussion only, students responded to questions designed to encourage critical thinking through the four-questions tech...

conclusions the educational framework provided by im for at training improved attitude and behavioral beliefs that can facilitate the adoption of at behavior and decreased clbp. results significant differences were recorded before and after intervention (p < 0.001) for the model constructs of intention, perceived risk, direct attitude, behavioral beliefs, and knowledge in both groups. direct at...

Unstated and unacknowledged bias has a profound impact on the nature and implementation of integrative education models. Integrative education is the process of training conventional biomedical and traditional Chinese medicine practitioners in each tradition such that patient care may be effectively coordinated. A bilateral education model ensures that students in each tradition are cross-taugh...

In the 1970s, the field of medical humanities developed and included ethics, literature, history, integrative medicine, and other topics, most often described from a physician's perspective. During this same period of revolutionary changes in health care, nursing curricula did not seek to emphasize content in humanities, perhaps because stereotypical views of nursing as the "caring profession" ...

As demand for computational modeling and simulation (M&S) engineers continues to increase, much attention has been focused recently on what constitutes proper educational preparation for a career in this area. This paper presents an integrative concept for a modeling and simulation study program in electrical engineering at the undergraduate level used in developing a program for a cadre of stu...