Teaching Students to Attain Annual Transition Goals Using the Take Action Goal Attainment Lessons

Building capacity to attain the Millennium Development Goals.

1. The Millennium Development Goals two-thirds (in relation to the 1990 baseline) or maternal deaths by three-quarters. Reversing the There is only a decade remaining in which to attain the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) (Table 1). These goals have the unprecedented support of 189 nations and are a mechanism for holding rich and poor nations accountable for global development...

Personal goals and psychological growth: testing an intervention to enhance goal attainment and personality integration.

We hypothesized that semester goal attainment provides a route to short-term psychological growth. In an attempt to enhance this process, we randomly assigned participants to either a goal-training program or to a control condition. Although there were no main effects of program participation on later goal attainment, important interactions were found. Consistent with a "prepared to benefit" mo...

An Audit of Perioperative Antimicrobial Prophylaxis: Time to Take Action

the evaluation and comparison of two esp textbooks available on the iranian market for teaching english to the students of medicine

abstract this study evaluated and compared medical terminology and english for the students of medicine (ii) as two representatives of the textbooks available on the iranian market for teaching english to the students of medicine. this research was performed on the basis of a teacher’s and a number of students’ attitudes and the students’ needs analysis for two reasons: first, to investigate...

Estimated global resources needed to attain international malaria control goals.

OBJECTIVE To provide the international community with an estimate of the amount of financial resources needed to scale up malaria control to reach international goals, including allocations by country, year and intervention as well as an indication of the current funding gap. METHODS A costing model was used to estimate the total costs of scaling up a set of widely recommended interventions, ...