In the Institute of Medicines report Dental Education at the Crossroads, it was suggested that dental schools across the country move toward integrated basic science education for dental and medical students in their curricula. To do so, dental school admission requirements and recommendations must be closely reviewed to ensure that students are adequately prepared for this coursework. The purp...

Promoting quality mentorship of undergraduate science students has recently emerged as an important strategy for successfully recruiting and retaining students in the sciences. Although numerous faculty members are naturally gifted mentors, most faculty are inserted into a mentorship role with little, if any, training. Successfully mentoring undergraduate science students requires a myriad of s...

This qualitative research aimed at identifying conceptions held by undergraduate students regarding the term motivation, and motives leading them to the consumption of legal drugs. Data were collected through a questionnaire with four open questions, applied to 15 students of a public university in the central region of Mexico. In order to perform the data analysis, answers were classified in t...

The purpose of this study was to understand the views and perceptions of engineering undergraduate students on engineering education. The method of content analysis was used to analyze the language used by engineering undergraduate students, and to extract the underlying common factors or perceived characteristics of “Excellence in Engineering Education.” These common factors were then used to ...

AIM To identify behaviours and attitudes that exhibit poor professionalism at the proto-professional stage of undergraduate health professions education, and investigate the extent and nature of agreement by faculty on appropriate responses by undergraduate students in the UK. METHODS A preliminary inventory of 69 items of behaviour and attitude was derived from literature review and 1-month ...

Constrained resources in Central and Eastern Europe limit the capacity of local and national health ministries to study breastfeeding practices or implement evidence-based breastfeeding support programs. This paper describes an innovative model for studying an important maternal and child health (MCH) problem by training undergraduate students to strengthen local capacity for research. An inter...

Human-computer interaction is a very recent discipline at the Universidad de Costa Rica. In this paper we present the experiences of the first academic year the first courses about humancomputer interaction, an undergraduate course and a Masters course, were designed and taught. The HCI course introduction strategy consisted of two steps: 1) to initiate a dedicated undergraduate course during t...

For example, thus far, I had the fortune to work intimately with nine (9) undergraduate students on research questions in the areas of computational algebra and algebraic geometry. I am directing two master’s students in their research for their theses at Sam Houston State University. All of these undergraduate students have enrolled in graduate programs around the country. Three have finished ...

This paper discusses the benefits of using largescale projects, involving many groups of students with different backgrounds, in the education of undergraduate microelectronics engineering students. The benefits of involving students in large, industry-like projects are first briefly reviewed. The organisation of undergraduate programmes is presented, and it is described how students can be inv...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to describe the didactic and clinical undergraduate implant dentistry program of the Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany, with emphasis on the clinical implant experience. MATERIALS AND METHODS A detailed description of the implant curriculum at Albert-Ludwigs University is given with documented exemplary cases and additional flow charts. RESULTS A...