OBJECTIVE To identify the financial costs and benefits associated with teaching in private general practice. DESIGN Cost-benefit analysis of teaching in private general practice across three levels of training--undergraduate medical training, prevocational training and general practice vocational training--using data from a 2007 survey of general practitioners in South Australia. SETTING AN...

introduction: patient safety culture is an important part of improvement in the safety of health care. knowing its present status is required for development of safety culture. the present study aimed to evaluate the current status of patient safety culture in hospitals of three central provinces of iran. method: the present cross-sectional study was performed in teaching hospitals of tehran, a...

BACKGROUND The movement of medical education into the community has accelerated the development of a new model of general practice in which core clinical services are complemented by educational and research activities involving the whole primary care team. AIM To compare quality indicators, workload characteristics, and health authority income of general practices involved in undergraduate m...

The article analyzes how the separation of the teaching of medicine and of dentistry occurred in Brazil. It highlights the role that the institutionalization of dental teaching policies played in shaping a professional identity. Relations are drawn between teaching policies and professional practices to show how their relationships and meanings have changed historically. It is argued that the t...

In teaching a foreign language (FL), some cultural specificities (defined under the rubric of ‘little-c culture’) may totally conflict with the cultural norms of the learners’ first language (L1). To prevent such imminent problems, this paper recommended that the FL syllabus be designed in a way so as to equip learners with an intimate knowledge of the target language culture, and that la...

Through the transformation of undergraduate STEM courses, the Colorado Learning Assistant Program recruits and prepares talented STEMmajors for careers in teaching by providing them with early, sustained teaching experiences. The research reported here compares teaching practices of K-12 teachers who served as learning assistants (LAs) as undergraduates to colleagues that were certified through...