The Departments of Education, Labor, and Health and Human Services now administer a variety of social programs that incorporate literacy training. Adult Basic Education (ABE), English as a Second Language (ESL), JOBS, workplace literacy, family literacy, library literacy, and correctional institution education are the primary examples of these programs, but others exist that either provide lite...

Background Pain medicine is a developing specialty, aimed at relieving pain and suffering, enhancing function, and improving the quality of life of patients. Pain is often ignored, under-reported and mismanaged by health-care providers. Aspiring pain physicians in India face many challenges and barriers in advancing their specialty. Objectives The objective of this study is to determine the c...

Prior editions of this journal (McLeroy and Steckler, 1993; Green et al., 1994; Schwartz and Capwell, 1995) and other recent publications (Hochbaum and Lorig, 1992; Buchanan, 1994; Kelleher, 1996; McQueen, 1996; Milburn, 1996) have discussed the value of theory and its relation to practice in health education. This discussion inspired us to think about theory (defined broadly as theories of eti...

OBJECTIVE To assess the opinions of emergency medicine (EM) residents and program directors about the value of completing a nonrequired 1-year internship before entering an EM residency program accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). METHODS An eight-question, self-administered online survey was e-mailed to EM residents who had completed a nonrequired i...

OBJECTIVE To describe the perspectives of surgical interns regarding the implications of the new Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) duty-hour regulations for their training. DESIGN We compared responses of interns and surgery program directors on a survey about the proposed ACGME mandates. SETTING Eleven general surgery residency programs. PARTICIPANTS Two hundre...

Since the 1960’s there have been calls for reforms in teacher education programs to reflect the growing diversity represented in our nation’s schools. One response is multicultural education courses aimed at addressing attitudes and beliefs about diversity. Such courses have received mixed reviews. Some research has reported that pre-service teacher’s attitudes and beliefs were changed in a pos...

In this paper we propose a program of pre–service and in–service teacher of Mathematics’ training in teaching with the use of computer software programs. The program consists of a) the presentation of the most characteristic theories of learning, teaching methods and models and models of using computers in the teaching–learning environment and b) the training of teachers in the use of computer ...

THE Genetics Society of America's Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education recognizes significant and sustained impact on genetics education. As well as having made major contributions to biochemistry and developmental genetics, the 2016 awardee William B. Wood has been a pioneer in the reform of science teaching. Wood's leadership has been crucial in several national initiatives an...

porpuse: this study aims to identify factors affecting rural women's participation in educational- extension programs of the jihad- agriculture service centers in amol township, in order to be able to take positive steps in facilitating and accelerating the process of rural and agricultural development, as the result of the improvement in their level of participation. methodology: considering t...