Profound socioeconomic pressures on medical student education have been catalogued extensively. These pressures include teaching patient shortages, teacher shortages, conflicting systems, and financial problems. Many of these problems have been caused by an unregulated free market affecting medicine overall, with market values sometimes overshadowing the academic values of education, research, ...

background: several studies have established that all nurses need continuing education, especially those who are working in oncology wards. in the current programs, there are just two general patterns for teaching: teacher-centered and student-centered patterns. in this study, the effect of teacher-centered (lecture) and student-centered (module) teaching methods in relation to safety standards...

BACKGROUND Problem-based learning (PBL) has made a major shift in support of student learning for many medical school curricula around the world. Since curricular development of PBL in the early 1970s and its growth in the 1980s and 1990s, there have been growing numbers of publications providing positive and negative data in regard to the curricular effectiveness of PBL. The purpose of this st...

Colleges and universities are now cultivating more innovative talents through innovation entrepreneurship education, but the traditional teaching method is always teacher-centered lacks initiative of students. Therefore, it great significance to study influence student-centered education practice on cultivation students' ability for improving in colleges universities.

Tresolini CP and the Pew-Fetzer Task Force. Health professions education and relationship-centered Care. San Francisco, CA: Pew Health Professions Commission, 1994. The original presentation of the term “Relationship-centered care,” which was intended to convey “the importance of interaction among people as the foundation of any therapeutic or healing activity.” Available from the Pew Health Pr...

Researchers in medical education have been placing increased emphasis on "outcomes research," or the observable impact of educational interventions on patient care. However, although patient outcomes are obviously important, they should not be the sole focus of attention in medical education research. The purpose of this perspective is both to highlight the limitations of outcomes research in m...

DLESE is a grassroots, community-led digital library project conceived to provide earth system educators with access to high quality educational resources. This article describes the application of task-centered design in the DLESE project. Task-centered design techniques have not only been instrumental in the design of DLESE, but have also led to the articulation of deeper research questions r...

Breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screening have been shown to significantly increase early detection rates and reduce preventable cancer mortality. Yet Latinos in the U.S. have disproportionately lower cancer screening rates and significantly higher latestage cancer detection, and correspondingly higher cancer mortality rates. HealthPoint Communications developed digital touchscreen kiosk...