Reflective Student Practitioner – an example integrating clinical experience into the curriculum

Integrating Security into the Curriculum

he number of skilled practitioners of computer security who are able to address the complexities of modern technology and are familiar with successful approaches to system security is very small. People want security but are faced with two difficulties. First, they do not know how to achieve it in the context of their enterprises. They may not even know of a way to translate organizational proc...

Integrating geriatrics into medical school: student journaling as an innovative strategy for evaluating curriculum.

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY The Alpert Medical School of Brown University began to integrate geriatrics content into all preclerkship courses and key clerkship cases as part of a major medical school curriculum redesign in 2006. This study evaluates students' responses to geriatrics integration within the curriculum using journals kept by volunteer preclerkship and clerkship students between 2007 and ...

Integrating translational bioinformatics into the medical curriculum

With the arrival of genomic medicine, there is a growing consensus for a need to enhance the genomic literacy of healthcare professionals.1-3 The increasing adoption of genomic and other high-throughput ‘omics technologies in clinical labs requires that healthcare professionals, in particular, physicians be equipped with the knowledge and skills to understand and interpret genomic and other hig...

Integrating undergraduate laboratories into the curriculum.

Developing a curriculum that integrates laboratory, field, and nonlaboratory experiences requires solid planning, cooperation, and compromise among the faculty members in a department. This is especially true for laboratory experiences where basic skills and familiarity with the different groups of plants and animals carry over to upper-division courses. In an introductory Principles of Biology...

Integrating Computation into the Physics Curriculum