This section of AJP includes physics education research ~PER! articles. It continues the editorial process that begun with the green PER Supplementary Issues to AJP published in July of 1999–2001. The PER section ~PERS! is a response to the tension between the long-standing policy of AJP not to publish research articles and the growing interest within the AAPT community in PER. Articles in the ...

At present, practice of clinical medicine is predominately dependent on proper application of "evidence-based medicine", which is in turn largely dependent on proficient acquisition of research skills.1 In fact, in the 21st century, research proficiency continues to be regarded as an indispensable skill for all forthcoming medical graduates.2 Moreover, graduating clinically-qualified and resear...

Continuing education curriculum construction is the key work to complete the teachers’ continuing education system, it is also an important part of the teachers’ specialization. This study aims to master the main problems of the current primary and secondary school teachers’ continuing education curriculum construction and put forward the corresponding improvement countermeasures. Research in Y...

The 21 century is described as the Information Age. To meet the increasing demands of social development, a lot of challenges to develop information technology (IT) education have been carried out in China. This study deals with the main efforts such as the construction of wideband education network, modern web-based distance education, teacher IT training, national collegiate IT education cont...

I dare say that a total of 72 graduate school and medical school classes over the past 31/2 years, since beginning the M.D.-Ph.D., Program has rendered me qualified to comment on upper-level science education. During that time I have been taught by every technique ever invented, and my performance has been evaluated in every way imaginable. The good news is that, for the most part, my teachers ...

BACKGROUND Rural nurses and doctors typically have little opportunity to further their education and training. Studies have shown high participant satisfaction with the use of educational technology, such as videoconferencing, for education. A review of effectiveness of videoconference-based tele-education for medical and nursing education was conducted. AIMS The aims of this study were to: (...

OBJECTIVES This qualitative study sought to elicit the views, experiences, career journeys and aspirations of women in senior post-graduate medical education roles to identify steps needed to help support career progression. DESIGN In-depth semi-structured telephone interviews. SETTING UK. PARTICIPANTS Purposive sample of 12 women in a variety of senior leadership roles in post-graduate m...

BACKGROUND Heterogeneous basic science knowledge of medical students is an important challenge for medical education. In this study, the authors aimed at exploring the value and role of integrated supportive science (ISS) courses as a novel approach to address this challenge and to promote learning basic science concepts in medical education. ISS courses were embedded in a reformed medical curr...

This research aimed to present the profile of production of Nursing Education Research Groups (NERG) scientific and technological production in the South of Brazil. This documentary, quantitative, exploratory-descriptive retrospective research was guided by the active search for products in the Lattes curriculum of previously selected NERG researchers, based on the 2006 Census of the Research G...

The author considers the University of Toronto's Health, illness and the Community course for undergraduate medical students, described in this issue by Wasylenki and associates (see pages 379 to 383). Social accountability in medical education demands a community orientation and hence an emphasis on outreach. Medical schools should expand their clinical service to the community, provide commun...