The National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) keeps clinical practice guidelines up to date by identifying selected topics on asthma that warrant intensive review based on the level of research activity reflected in the published literature or the level of concern in clinical practice. The NAEPP Expert Panel identified key questions about asthma management and used a systematic r...

BACKGROUND Basic clinical skills training in the Japanese medical education system has traditionally incorporated on-the-job training with patients. Recently, the complementary use of simulation techniques as part of this training has gained popularity. It is not known, however, whether the participants view this new type of education program favorably; nor is the impact of this program known. ...

Novice programmers generally have difficulty learning to program and one of the problems contributing towards this is the program development environment used at tertiary institutions. A number of pedagogical program development environments have been developed specifically for novice programmers, but these have not been compared experimentally with professional program development environments...

The Education Program for Health Informatics Professionals (EPHIP) is a diploma program in Applied Health Informatics. Here we emphasize the methods ofprogram development and the innovative nature ofthis program. Large numbers of these IT/IM professionals are incompletely prepared for their roles in the health system: many lack either management or Computer Science education, and virtually none...

UNTO teachers as you would have them do unto children" has been the underlying philosophy of the Bristol Township, Pennsylvania, Schools' in-service education program since 1955. This program has attempted to increase the effectiveness of learning experiences offered teachers in their continuing edu cation by making available to these learn ers the opportunity to assume responsi bility for thei...

This paper describes a novel education program for doctor of pharmacy students about diabetes, a chronic disorder of glucose metabolism affecting an estimated 16 million people in the United States. The Diabetes Program (DP) incorporates didactic learning, web-based case evaluation, and role play into a two-week comprehensive module on diabetes care. In the DP, students are placed in the role o...

OBJECTIVE This study aims to: 1) Evaluate whether a near-peer program improves perceived OSCE performance; 2) Identify factors motivating students to teach; 3) Evaluate role of near-peer teaching in medical education. METHODS A near-peer OSCE teaching program was implemented at Monash University's Peninsula Clinical School over the 2013 academic year. Forty 3rd-year and thirty final-year medi...

Millions of Americans have unmet oral healthcare needs and profound oral health disparities persist in vulnerable and underserved populations, especially poor children, older adults, and racial and ethnic minorities. Nurses can play a significant role in improving the quality of oral health including access to care with appropriate education and training. The purpose of this paper is to describ...

The purpose of the paper is to briefly state the case for a revised technological1 teacher education program and describe a conceptual model developed at the Faculty of Education, The University of Western Ontario. The model outlined assumes that a re-thinking of how technological teachers learn to teach is necessary if new ways of teaching are to be fostered. The need has three dimensions. Fir...