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Use of Massive Online Open Courses as a Potential Resource to Provide Continuing Medical Education in Pakistan.

The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PM&DC) has made Continuing Medical Education (CME) mandatory for doctors, from 2015 onwards. Aminimum of 15 credit hours of CME per year for general practitioners and 30 credit hours for specialist doctors have been made mandatory for renewal of the PMDC registration. While doctors can attend conferences to earn this CME credit, the opportunities are min...

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A moment for reflection.

s for the 2010 conferences will be due in early December 2009. Please visit the Web site and watch the newsletter for updates. We will again have online registration, group discounts and preregistration discounts for the conferences. At the 2008 meeting, event sponsors were Shanghai Hitachi Electrical Appliance Co., Ltd.; LG Electronics, Inc.; The Trane Company; Danfoss, Inc.; and Emerson Clima...

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T his free symposium explores developments in the molecular and cell biology of cytokines in normal and disease states, including immunity, inflammation, hematology and neuroscience.

[Nexus between postgraduation and nursing research in Brazil].

The present text had a purpose of reflect about the connections between postgraduation an nursing research courses in Brazil. The origins used were magazines, with distinction for Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem and Escola Anna Nery-Revista de Enfermagem, annals of conferences, seminaries and research forums, like the oral deposition of the teacher Emerita EEAN/UFRJ, the doctor Vilma de Carval...

Educators' Symposium of the Acm / Ieee 8th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (formerly the Uml Series of Conferences) Symposium Chair Symposium Co-chair Program Committee Teaching Experiences with Uml at the University of Texas at Dallas

This paper reports the recent experiences of four different instructors in teaching graduate-level software engineering courses using UML. Due to different backgrounds of the instructors, the courses were organized and taught using different textbooks and with different focuses. The experiences are organized from several different perspectives: the role and issues of UML in object-oriented mode...