Beyond Orthodox Approaches to Education Reform

Refocusing medical education reform: beyond the how.

Integration of the basic and clinical sciences has been at the heart of medical education reform efforts for nearly a century. Neither the rate nor magnitude of actual progress suggests that reform is anywhere near completion, which presents a challenge to educators to seek ways to overcome significant obstacles to change. Robin Hopkins and colleagues, authors of the Perspective in this issue o...

Beyond Orthodox Semigroups

We introduce the notions of a generalised category and of an inductive generalised category over a band. Our purpose is to describe a class of semigroups which we name weakly B-orthodox. In doing so we produce a new approach to characterising orthodox semigroups, by using inductive generalised groupoids. Here B denotes a band of idempotents; we note that if B is a semilattice then a weakly B-or...

Approaches to Multicultural Curriculum Reform

Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Eating Plan: Beyond the Hypertension

Background and Objectives: Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) eating pattern, a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains and low-fat dairy with a reduced content of sodium, saturated fat, and total fat is introduced as an appropriate diet for hypertension. This eating pattern was basically designed to normalize blood pressure in patients with hypertension, and a large body of d...

An Introduction to some new approaches in clinical education

Introduction: Clinical education is one of the most important and crucial parts of health science education. Successful clinical education needs to adopt effective approaches that are based on up to date knowledge, clients’ and patients’ needs. Therefore, it can prepare the learners for learning. This study aimed to introduce some new approaches in clinical education. Methods: In this review s...