The update of the Echocardiography Core Syllabus of European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) is now available online. The Echocardiography Core Syllabus enumerates the elements of knowledge to be taught, represents a framework for the development of local training curricula and provides expected learning outcomes to the echocardiography learner.

Purpose – This study aims to address two interrelated research questions. First, to compare the academy performance of police recruits trained under a traditional academy curriculum with the performance of those trained under a new academy curriculum based on community policing. Second, to investigate whether a different “type” of recruit performs better in the community policing curriculum com...

The purpose of this paper is to compare the content of samples of curricula in current use in the nation's schools and curricula recently developed by researchers. We describe briefly the nature of these curricula. We then provide an analysis of their content.

A competency-based training curriculum framework for U.S. state food and feed testing laboratories personnel is being developed by the International Food Protection Training Institute (IFPTI) and three partners. The framework will help laboratories catalog existing training courses/modules, identify training gaps, inform training curricula, and create career-spanning professional development le...

BACKGROUND Professionalism in nursing is critical for creating credibility and a positive image. OBJECTIVES This study was carried out to explain the use of hidden curriculum in teaching professionalism in nursing students. MATERIALS AND METHODS This qualitative study was conducted through purposeful sampling strategy by the participation of 32 nursing students. The data were collected by u...

Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) strives to instill in its graduates skills and competencies appropriate to serving the Tanzanian population well. MUHAS leadership, working in collaboration with educators from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), selected and trained an interdisciplinary group of faculty members to promote effective teaching. We describe ...

F EW PHYSICIANS today believe that they are prac t i c ing in the “golden age” of medicine. Comprehensive social, technological, political, and economic changes challenge their adaptive resources. They also confront the forces of bureaucratization and corporatization that pressure them to subordinate their professional autonomy and control to other systems, and, in some cases, to place corporat...

This article describes how librarians became involved as members of an interdisciplinary curricular team in a problem-based learning course for first- and second-year medical students. The experience illustrates how librarians can become part of a team, collaborating with medical faculty to assist in revising curricula, incorporating innovative teaching techniques, and creating effective simula...

Combinatorial topics are prevalent in undergraduate curricula, and research indicates that students face difficulties when solving counting problems. The literature has not sufficiently addressed students' ways of thinking about combinatorial concepts at a level that enables researchers to understand how students conceptualize counting problems. In this paper, a model of students’ combinatorial...

Debate exists as to the timing of student exposure to business ethics modules, and the degree to which business ethics education is integrated throughout business school curricula. The argument for an integrated model of business ethics education is well documented, however, such arguments do not stem from an empirical basis. Much of the debate about when and how business ethics should be taugh...