OBJECTIVE to identify the political-pedagogical projects of the undergraduate nursing programs in Santa Catarina, Brazil according to the guidelines of the Ministries of Health and Education, considering the education of professionals under the principle of integrality. METHOD documentary study with a qualitative approach. Nine projects were analyzed. RESULTS the colleges from the Southern ...

The State Board of Education meeting was held on Thursday, September 18, 2014, in the Grimes State Office Building, State Board Room, Des Moines, Iowa. The following State Board members were present: Charlie Edwards, Mike Knedler, Rosie Hussey, Mike May, Mike Bearden, Diane Crookham-Johnson, Brooke Axiotis, Mary Ellen Miller, Angela English, and Hannah Rens. Iowa Department of Education staff m...

A study assessed coursework and experiential activities of students to determine the role of research in Doctor of Pharmacy education. Questionnaires were sent to all 78 (at that time) colleges and schools of pharmacy in the United States. Responses were received from 60 (76.9%), of which 57 were used, representing 139 Pharm.D. program types (entry-level, post-B.S., track-in, nontraditional). M...

The system of higher education now existing in India was originally implanted by the British rulers in the mid-19th century to serve the colonial economic, political and administrative interests, and in particular, to consolidate and maintain their dominance in the country. It was inherited by the state managers after independence (in 1947) as a colonial legacy, and has been expanded phenomenal...

AIM The discipline of radiotherapy (RT) in India is considered a low priority subject. Postgraduate (PG) students rarely choose RT as a career option. The possible reasons could be: 1) limited availability of PG course training centers, 2) limited job prospects, etc. We decided to conduct a survey of undergraduate (UG) medical students to find out their awareness, understanding, and attitude to...

Center for Pharmacogenomics & Department of Pharmacotherapy and Translational Research, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA 2 Genetics & Genomic Graduate Program, Genetics Institute, University of Florida Center for Pharmacogenomics, Department of Cancer Biology and Genetic, College of Medicine, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA Division of Cardiovascular Med...

infection occurs only rarely. It is mainly by the experience and teaching of the professors and lecturers of the medical colleges of India that this obscurity is now being dispelled. As long ago as 1886, Norman Chevers in his classical Commentary on the Diseases of India remarked on the rarity of acute rheumatism in Bengal. ' The experience of a working life time', he writes, ' has taught me th...

In the popularization course of higher education, students entering into the higher colleges are not those excellent students with excellent achievements in the senior school, so the teaching of college mathematics in higher colleges should transform from the learning emphasis to popularization emphasis for traditional excellent higher education. In the transformation process, as a main basic c...

Some 40 years ago while spending the night in front of TV and waiting for Neil Armstrong to step down the lander of Apollo 11 to the surface of the moon, indeed, I could not imagine to witness, another event of corresponding relevance for mankind in my lifetime. However, the recent report by Siemers and colleges on slowing down progress of Alzheimer Disease of people showing mild but proven Alz...

In this paper, the writer aims to the cultivation of electrical specialists on the basis of training mode of the engineering talent at colleges and universities and puts forward the research on reform in education and innovative cultivation of electrical specialty by analyzing the teaching conditions of electrical specialty. Then the author puts forward some new ideas on the aspects of the teac...