Human development: competencies for the 21st century. IFLA CPERT 3rd International Conference on Continuing Professional Education

Professional Education for the 21st Century Workforce

This paper offers a brief history of the development of professional ‘engineering’ curricula across the last six decades. The affects occasioned by Sputnik, Japanese quality triumphs, the growth of microelectronics, and how subsequent skills deficiencies were addressed by IBM and the professional society community are discussed. Future curriculum or educational problems need crossor interdiscip...

Continuing medical education and continuing professional development: international comparisons.

Management Accounting Education for the 21st Century Firms

Management accounting has become a subject of hot debates over the last four decades and has undergone a major transformation. It is argued that traditional management accounting roles have either disappeared or been changed. The debate is based on the belief that roles of ‘Management Accountants’ require new forms of education and training,  with more emphasis on the practicality of the subjec...

Medical Education in 21st-century

Medical education play an important role in health of people in 20st-century, but this system has to change overtime. Medical education must respond to not only the demand of community at larg but also to changing in new technologies. Medical education have been criticized in last two decades of 20st-century, because of producing too many specialists focus on treatment instead of health, insuf...

3rd Pakistan International Biennial Conference on Ramadan and Health

During recent years, there has been an emerging, upward trend in research and publication of studies on the effects of Ramadan fasting on the healthy population as well as on the populace diagnosed with various diseases and conditions. To publicize the outcomes of these research works, many awareness programs, symposia and conferences are being organized globally. International coordination gro...