Currently, there is no internationally recognised, standard curriculum that defines the basic minimum standards for emergency medicine education. To address this, the International Federation for Emergency Medicine convened a committee of international experts in emergency medicine and international emergency medicine development to outline a global curriculum for medical students in emergency ...

The primary purpose of the undergraduate occupational therapy curriculum at The University of Sydney is to prepare students for the academic, practical and ethical demands of occupational therapy practice (School of Occupational Therapy, 1986). As part of a former College of Advanced Education, Cumberland College of Health Sciences (CCHS), the School of Occupational Therapy was required by the ...

BACKGROUND This study evaluated a simulated pages curriculum that was developed to assess communication and clinical decision making in medical students and interns. METHODS A curriculum consisting of 14 simulated pages was administered across 5 institutions to 150 senior medical students. A 3-case subset was administered to interns who did not participate in the curriculum. Six expert surgeo...

The IS discipline identity discourse has traditionally been focused on the IS research. With considerable effort devoted to the IS curriculum development, it has not been seriously considered in the discussions on the IS identity. Here we argue that IS students and their recruiters, along with IS faculty, are key internal stakeholders of the IS discipline. As such they are engaged in the proces...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The need for change in medical curricula is increasing, due partially to tougher curriculum and evaluation standards. Participants in our academic medicine fellowship learn to develop curricula, but not all are successful at fully implementing them. This study looked for facilitators of and barriers to curriculum implementation by individual fellows. A literature revie...

1. INTRODUCTION. Nearly all mathematicians, mathematics educators, teachers, parents, and students agree on the need to improve the mathematical learning of students in our nation's schools. Yet there are widely differing viewpoints concerning appropriate directions for school mathematics curricula that might help accomplish this goal. With its publication of the Curriculum and Evaluation Stand...

In 2016, the Commission on Dental Competency Assessments (CDCA) — formerly the North East Regional Board of Dental Examiners (NERB) — will administer a new dental licensing exam format in Florida. This new model, the Patient Centered Curriculum Integrated Format — also known as the “Buffalo Model” — modifies the traditional Curriculum Integrated Format (CIF) exam to provide additional focus on ...

This study aims to identify and characterize the understanding of concept Sustainable Development in official scientific educational documents basic education Portugal. Methodologically, it is a qualitative that fits into interpretive paradigm; its implementation based on an interpretative-descriptive strategy exploratory nature. The involved organization analysis corpus subsequent content sele...

In 2009, 48 out of the 50 states in the U.S. came together under the leadership of the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) to write school standards for Mathematics and English Language Arts that would ensure students leaving high school are ready for college and career. The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) were released on 2 June 2010, ...

In this study, we conducted a model of teacher professional development (PD) on the alignment of middle and high school curricula and instruction to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSSs), and evaluated the impact of the PD on teacher participants' development. The PD model included a 4-day summer academy emphasizing project-based learning (PBL) in the designing of NGSS-aligned curricula...