The interest to pursue doctoral degrees in the health professions is increasing exponentially. Some reasons for this increase include innovations in curriculum and instructional strategies, competency-based assessment, particularly at the postgraduate level, and accreditation requirements. Through various electronic search methods, interviews, review of documents and site visits, 24 structured ...

Context The Chinese government launched a comprehensive healthcare reform to tackle challenges to health equities. Medical education will become the key for successful healthcare reform. Purpose We describe the current status of the Chinese medical degree system and its evolution over the last 80 years. Content Progress has been uneven, historically punctuated most dramatically by the Cultural ...

BACKGROUND Mentoring is a core component of medical education and career success. There is increasing global emphasis on mentorship of young scientists in order to train and develop the next leaders in global health. However, mentoring efforts are challenged by the high clinical, research and administrative demands. We evaluated the status and nature of mentoring practices at Makerere Universit...

Physicians today are facing numerous and powerful attacks on the exercise of many of their most basic functions. If asked to identify one source most responsible for these challenges, many physicians would name the legal profession. Legal intrusion into the medical profession goes beyond challenges to the physician's income; it threatens what many physicians believe to be the traditions that ma...

INTRODUCTION Educational technologies have had an important role in respiratory care. Distance learning via postal correspondence has been used extensively in respiratory care, and Internet-based distance learning is now used in the training of respiratory therapists (RTs), clinical continuing education, and in baccalaureate degree and higher programs for RTs and educators. OBJECTIVES To desc...

Previous research in distance education points out that improving depth and quality of communication and interaction is of utmost concerns. This study intends to explore students’ communication and project-based learning experiences in an international distance course conducted by three universities across Japan and Taiwan. This paper first describes the rationale of the study, and how it was d...

Games and simulalions can play an integral part of health education by creating a productive and enjoy­ able learning environment. Television and board games requiring various degrees of knowledge and skill can be adapted to present key health concepts, I to allow students to interact with and personalize health information, and to assess personal risk. 2 Within a game format, strategies includ...

569 I wish to inform readers of the Journal of Dental Education about a type of international dental education available in Norway. The universities of Bergen and Oslo offer research training programs leading to a master’s of philosophy in dentistry. This program is coordinated by Norway’s Center of International Health (CIH). The emphasis in research training is the field of public health. The...

An ex post facto case study was conducted to determine critical professional development needs of county extension faculty in the area of adult education. To conduct the study, a survey was administered to a group of 60 county extension faculty representing one extension district within a Southeastern US state. The constructs measured in the survey included embedded perceptions as to the import...

A continuing education program for the general practitioner is presented that would provide a degree or certificate of advanced status on completion. This long-term program would be made possible by giving credit hours for continuing education courses taken, then redeeming these credits for the certificate or degree on completion. The dentist's choice in continuing education programs is protect...