A "general professional training" inquiry.

A "general professional training" inquiry.

AN IMPORTANT recommendation of the Royal Commission on Medical Education was the institution of a 3-year period of general professional training to follow the pre-registration year. Such a scheme would have certain advantages and would follow the pattern of postgraduate education in some other countries. It would, however, pose considerable difficulties in terms of implementation, and it has me...

General professional training in community child health.

A scheme providing general professional training for doctors in community child health is described. The scheme covers three years and gives broad clinical experience in general hospital paediatrics, community paediatrics, psychiatry, and general practice. The aims of the scheme and service needs and future structure for our trainees are discussed.

An Action Research Inquiry into Professional Training and Development for Addressing Complex Urban Problems

Understanding professional vision in inquiry science teaching

To understand inquiry science teaching, we must understand how practicing and prospective teachers see the activity of teaching. This study examines how practicing and prospective teachers highlight and code classroom activity in an effort to understand the nature of professional pedagogical vision (Goodwin, 1994). Results indicate that differences exist in terms of: actor focus, questions, gra...

A General Platform for Inquiry Learning

We have built and evaluated software that supports students to reason about a phenomenon and develop hypotheses to explain it. The goal is for students to ask their own questions, engage in hypothesis generation and make and test predictions about theories. Intelligent tutoring and a discovery approach guide students’ inquiry in these problem-based modules. The inquiry infrastructure provides a...