Senior Lecturer, Public Health Dentistry, Maharajaganga Singh Dental College and Research Centre, Sriganganagar, Rajasthan, India, Senior Lecturer, Public Health Dentistry, Rajah Muthaiah Dental College and Hospital, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India, Reader, Public Health Dentistry, Royal Dental College & Hospital, Chalissery, Palakkad, Kerala, India, Consultant, Public Health Dentistry, Bellary,...

Neil T Raymond, MSc* (1); Lakshminarayanan Varadhan*, MRCP (2) ; Dilini R Reynold, MD, Postgraduate student (3); Kate Bush, BM (4); Sailesh Sankaranarayanan, MRCP, Consultant Diabetes (2); Srikanth Bellary, MRCP, Consultant Diabetes & Acute Medicine (5); Anthony H Barnett, FRCP, Professor of Medicine (5); Sudhesh Kumar, FRCP, Professor of Medicine (6); J Paul O’Hare, FRCP, Reader in Clinical Me...

Are Student Exchange Programs Worth It? The number of university students participating in exchange programs has risen sharply over the last decade, but a survey of Swiss university graduates (class of 1999 and 2001) shows that participation in student exchange programs significantly prolongs the period of time spent studying at university. Given this fact, the advantages of exchange programs f...

Students at the University of Ottawa, many of whom were targeting a career in medicine, were surveyed to determine their attitudes and expectations regarding a new student-run peer-reviewed journal for the health sciences. A number of students reported that the existence of the journal would make them more likely to take a class with a written component, while a majority would work harder on th...

The use of web-based learning and assessment tools is growing in tertiary institutions around the world. To date, very few papers have reported the development and evaluation of a web-based formative assessment tool for postgraduate students. The aim of the present paper was to report on the development and evaluation of an online formative assessment tool for this student group. The web-based ...

OBJECTIVES To assess undergraduate and postgraduate pharmacy students' perceptions of plagiarism and academic honesty. METHODS A questionnaire was administered to undergraduate and postgraduate pharmacy students to determine their levels of awareness of university policy concerning academic honesty; attitudes to plagiarism by rating the acceptability of a range of plagiarizing and cheating pr...

Executive Summary This paper discusses the use and assessment of three teaching tools (WebCT, Mindtrail, and EVE) in a postgraduate course. Firstly, the postgraduate course is introduced and the reader is provided with an overview of the course, Information Systems Auditing, an explanation of the manner in which the course was delivered, the cohort attending, the staff teaching the course, and ...

The relationship between the postgraduate supervisor and postgraduate student is commonly described in the literature because of the interesting and sometimes even complex dynamics involved in this process. However, the literature is not always very explicit about the specific expectations of those involved. The findings of a qualitative case study, completed at an American research intensive u...

The paper explores the role of the postgraduate supervisor through advising, mentoring, and monitoring for the varied and complex process towards successful doctoral thesis completion. There is a scarcity of research into this important area, and we therefore undertake a comprehensive literature review to determine the current state of knowledge and international approaches. This involved an in...

Geographic information systems (GIS) are a rapidly evolving technology that has recently been integrated into undergraduate and postgraduate learning. GIS is also a multidisciplinary technology that has important relevance beyond its traditional disciplinary homes. This paper describes an initiative developed by the Department of Geomatics at the University of Melbourne, Australia, to create mu...