REDEFINING HEALTH EDUCATION IN LEPROSY: A PERSONAL VIEW

PERSONAL VIEW Education and personal development: a reflection

The practice of medicine implies life long learning, and the modern health service expects career grade doctors to engage in a programme of continuous professional development. Doctors are a highly motivated group, and so the expectation that they will participate seems well founded. For those in the training grades, professional development is supervised and made explicit within postgraduate m...

Redefining Workplace Safety and Health

Redefining Technology Role in Education

The paper is a conceptual attempt to explore the new roles of technology in education which has increasingly become more than a sole medium, as was its description in the past. Basically, the key idea is that technology, with the powers of ICT, in education has now three main roles, namely: a medium/resource, a management, and a delivery. These new roles, when combined, could set the stage for ...

Rationing in child health services: a personal view.

Rationing in the UK National Health Service comes in many forms: there is choosing not to see something as a relative health problem in the first place; there are simple straight decisions not to fund treatments, investigations, preventive measures, etc because of lack of resources at that particular time; there is rationing by reasonable methods of priority setting at national and district lev...

A Personal View Aims of undergraduate physiology education: a view from the University of Chicago

Feder, Martin E. Aims of undergraduate physiology education: a view from the University of Chicago. Adv Physiol Educ 29: 3–10, 2005; doi:10.1152/advan.00028.2004.—Physiology may play an important, if not essential role, in a liberal arts education because it provides a context for integrating information and concepts from diverse biological and extra-biological disciplines. Instructors of physi...