BACKGROUND Learning strategies are thinking tools that students can use to actively acquire information. Examples of learning strategies include mnemonics, charts, and maps. One strategy that may help students master the tsunami of information presented in medical school is the mind map learning strategy. Currently, there is no valid and reliable rubric to grade mind maps and this may contribut...

The Strawberry Discovery and Niche Process (SDNP) introduces a workbook, a new systematic method, a compact and cost-effective training process. The trainees are directed in a systematic process to make an inventory of their most valuable resources, including themselves, and plan for additional training or a career. On the basis of their discoveries, they generate: a plan for self-employment, p...

maps embellished with fantastical beasts, sixteenth-century wonder chambers 1⁄2lled with natural and technological marvels, even late-twentieth-century supermarket tabloids–all attest to the human fascination with things that violate our basic ideas about reality. The study of morality and culture is therefore an intrinsically fascinating topic. People have created moralities as divergent as th...