Recent calls for an expanded perspective on medical education and training include focusing on complexities of professional identity formation (PIF). Medical educators are challenged to facilitate the active constructive, integrative developmental process of PIF within standardized and personalized and/or formal and informal curricular approaches. How can we best support the complex iterative P...

Some of the challenges of financing pediatric medical education are shared with all medical education; others are specific to pediatrics. The general disadvantage that funding of graduate medical education (GME) is linked to reimbursement for clinical care has uniquely negative consequences for freestanding children's hospitals because they therefore receive little Medicare GME support. This re...

Business enterprises continue to globalize, motivated by their search for new markets, greater efficiency in the use of resources, and greater competitiveness. Information systems and technologies serve as one of the critical success factors for making this possible. Some IS curricula supported this development by either integrating more globalization into current courses or by delivering stand...

Background There is a paucity of information regarding institutional targets for the number of undergraduate medical education (UME) graduates being matched to graduate medical education (GME) programs at their home institutions. At our institution, the Duke University, the number of UME graduates matched to GME programs declined dramatically in 2011. To better understand why this decline may h...

Introduction of the issues 4 I. Higher education in Africa within the global and historical contexts 9 1.1. Social significance of higher education in Africa 9 1.2. Gender parity and higher education: a general and global overview 12 1.3. Historical roots of entrenchment of gender inequality in contemporary higher education in Africa 13 II. State of gender in higher education in Africa 14 2.1. ...

Higher education partnerships between the Global North and South are a recognized as means of developing research capacity, especially in institutions South. Due to realities individual agreements, however, not all work effectively. This article examines Norwegian Ethiopian university partnership named “The Ethiopia Network Universities Public Health (SENUPH)” case study identify key elements d...

Advanced software technologies that can be integrated with physical laboratories now allow students and researchers to access laboratory equipment and instruments remotely through the Internet. While this capability has been used in engineering and science education successfully for some time, application of this approach to human factors engineering and ergonomics education is new. The develop...

The following is a technical contribution to the cause of worldwide education, presented to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on the occasion of a world congress held on the dawn of the 21st Century. The problem of educational infrastructure as the foundation for equity access to educational resources for all the nations and citizens of the world is c...

Global refers to worldwide in scope and substance and de-emphasizes the concept of nation, but without negating it. Globalization, in general, is the flow of technology, knowledge, people, values, ideas, capital, goods, and services across national borders, and affects each country in a different way due to the nation’s individual history, traditions, culture, and priorities (Knight 2004). Econ...