background: over 90% of pharmacy students’ work in pharmacies after graduation which needs both knowledge and skill, thus one of the most essential courses of their education is pharmacy clerkship. an important part of an educational program is the evaluation of the trainees. different studies show that conventional written exams are not successful in evaluating the skills of the students and c...

Harmonization of pharmacy education has to be made a global agenda that will encompass the developments that have taken place in basic, medical, pharmaceutical sciences in serving the needs and expectations of the society. The professional pharmacy curriculum is designed to produce pharmacists who have the abilities and skills to provide drug information, education, and pharmaceutical care to p...

OBJECTIVE to analyze the experience of the family health team in resignifying the way to develop educational groups. METHOD groups of discussion, with twenty-six biweekly group meetings conducted, with an average of fifteen professionals from the family health team, during the year 2009. The empirical material consisted of the transcription of the groups, on which thematic analysis was perfor...

Bargaining with reading habit is no need. Reading is not kind of something sold that you can take or not. It is a thing that will change your life to life better. It is the thing that will give you many things around the world and this universe, in the real world and here after. As what will be given by this continuing education in the health professions, how can you bargain with the thing that...

Vocational education in Hungary has seen significant changes over the past 20 years. However, the adaptivity of the system is largely aggravated by certain problems of content, compensation and selection. As a result, the success of Hungarian public education, as shown by PISA research, lags far behind its possibilities. In our present paper the adaptive model of vocational education is outline...

This paper aims to increase understanding and appreciation of formative assessment and its role in improving student outcomes and the instructional process, while educating faculty on formative techniques readily adaptable to various educational settings. Included are a definition of formative assessment and the distinction between formative and summative assessment. Various formative assessmen...

Interest in the use of the progress examination has grown in the current culture of accountability in higher education. The Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education’s (ACPE’s) Standards 2007 calls for comprehensive, knowledgeand performance-based examinations as part of a school or college of pharmacy’s evaluation and assessment of student learning. Progress examinations have been used prim...

Mobile learning represents exciting new frontiers in education and pedagogy. Webster University has recently started offering courses for Mobile Computing. The designed curriculum focuses on practical experiences, which includes designing, creating, and testing mobile applications on mobile devices. In this paper, we report the curriculum designs, teaching strategies and tools applied; Major fe...

BACKGROUND Continuing education is one of the modern strategies to maintain and elevate knowledge and professional skills of nurses which in turn elevate the health status of society. Since several factors affect nurses' participation in continuing education, it's essential to know promoters and obstacles in this issue and plan accordingly. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, 361 Iranian n...

Interprofessional Education: Definitions, Student Competencies, and Guidelines for Implementation Shauna M. Buring, PharmD, Alok Bhushan, PhD, Amy Broeseker, PhD, Susan Conway, PharmD, Wendy Duncan-Hewitt, PhD, Laura Hansen, PharmD, and Sarah Westberg, PharmD University of Cincinnati Winkle College of Pharmacy College of Pharmacy, Idaho State University Samford University McWhorter School of Ph...