This study aims to support curriculum development by integrating service-users’, students’, and academic educators’ perspectives regarding the mental health knowledge Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) students should possess upon graduation. Set in Israeli context, thirty-nine semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten service-users, academic-educators, BSW, nine Master (MSW) students. Data...

PURPOSE The authors report data from the Harvard Medical School-Cambridge Integrated Clerkship (CIC), a model of medical education in which students' entire third year consists of a longitudinal, integrated curriculum. The authors compare the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of students completing the CIC with those of students completing traditional third-year clerkships. METHOD The authors ...

Most medical faculty receive little or no training about how to be effective teachers, even when they assume major educational leadership roles. To identify the competencies required of an effective teacher in medical education, the authors developed a comprehensive conceptual model. After conducting a literature search, the authors met at a two-day conference (2006) with 16 medical and nonmedi...

Introduction: The objective of this project was to engage survivor–advocates by describing their experiences living with lung cancer in an era of increasing treatment options. Methods: This was a qualitative engagement project with participants from a lung cancer advocacy organization’s survivor advisory board. Interviews were conducted, transcribed, and analyzed for stages and associated exper...

This paper introduces seven genres of the digital media projects that can help the 21st century EFL learner develop intercultural communication capability (ICC) in English with creativity afforded by emerging digital media. It is based on a project by the author and a group of pre-service teachers during the Fall semester of 2012-2013. Guided by a list of suggested topics and the concept of lea...

There is mixed evidence on the effectiveness of educational approaches that address empathy and client-centeredness in occupational therapy (OT) education. The purpose this study was to investigate effect listening a personal narrative-account podcast OT students. An experimental, posttest-only control group design used. Master’s degree level students were stratified by year randomly assigned e...