Moving Toward 2050: Supplementing Traditional Nutrition Programs with 21st Century Training (P07-008-19)

Moving Toward 21st-Century Clinical Licensure Examinations in Dentistry.

639 During the time frame in which this editorial was being written, most of the 2016 predoctoral dental and dental hygiene graduates of U.S. academic dental institutions were completing their studies and preparing to become full-fledged oral health care providers. One of their final hurdles is successful completion of a clinical licensure examination (CLE)—a principal component of which typica...

Toward a 21st Century Population Policy Paradigm

The Research Connection Young Adult Literature in the 21st Century: Moving Beyond Traditional Constraints and Conventions

A t the dawn of the twentyfirst century, young adult literature looks very different than it did fifty years ago. Indeed, fifty years ago, we were just getting started with the likes of Salinger’s The Catcher In The Rye (1951), with Hinton’s The Outsiders (1967), Zindel’s The Pigman (1968), and Cormier’s The Choco­ late War (1974) still a gleam in the eye of their literary creators. We have a c...

Emergent Procedure Training in the 21st Century

Procedural competency is a substantial part of the emergency physician’s (EP) skill set. Emergency Medicine (EM) is unique in that the practicing EP must be comfortable with a wide array of procedures that have the following features: 1) They span the entire human body and cross many disciplines in medicine and surgery; 2) There are both invasive and non-invasive procedures; 3) They occur at un...

Occupational medicine training into the 21st century.

The Colleges and Faculties of Occupational and Environmental Medicine largely developed to meet the need of postgraduate training in the discipline, and this function remains central to their role in 2010. To this end, a number of these organizations have examined the training curriculum and pathways in their countries and within the last few years have developed new curricula. The Australasian...