Developments in Adult Education

Developments in medical education.

The last time the Journal published an issue on Medical Education was early 1998. Curious, I looked into the content of that issue. There were, indeed, several items of interest. Deans Dunn and Farrell and their associates described several plans for their schools. This issue of WMJ reports on the implementation and evolution of some of those plans. Perhaps the most striking relates to the intr...

Developments in reproductive health education in India.

Whereas the Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 have focussed attention on maternal and child health, the importance of adolescent health education and, in particular, reproductive health education is emerging. In India, poor sexual health exists across all socioeconomic groups and in both rural and urban settings. Girls have little understanding of pubertal changes, menstrual hygiene, reprodu...

Developments in Postgraduate Medical Education in Leeds.

Technological Developments in Education and Automation

This study employs the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique, an efficiency model, to measure public schools in Thailand. Data came from 455 public upper secondary schools in Northern Thailand. The results reveal that the schools mostly operate inefficiently. To ascertain the efficiency measures, sensitivity analysis reveals the robustness of the resulting efficiency measures on efficiency....

Recent Developments in Virtual Reality Based Education

A series of virtual reality based educational modules are being developed to explore the capabilities of this emerging technology, and to determine how and where virtual reality can provide the greatest benefits to engineering educators. The most advanced application, Vicher, has been significantly expanded and split into two modules. Student evaluations of a newly developed safety analysis mod...