The clinical case report is a popular genre in medical writing. While authors and editors have debated the justification for the clinical case report, few have attempted to examine the long history of this genre in medical literature. By reviewing selected literature and presenting and discussing excerpts of clinical case reports from Egyptian antiquity to the 20th century, we illustrate the pr...

BACKGROUND Since 2007 a portfolio of learning has become a requirement for assessment of postgraduate family medicine training by the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa. A uniform portfolio of learning has been developed and content validity established among the eight postgraduate programmes. The aim of this study was to investigate the portfolio's acceptability, educational impact, and perc...

Sir, Prescription writing is one of the most important and basic skills that a doctor needs. Specifi c training and supervision in prescription should be emphasized during undergraduate and postgraduate teaching to minimize related errors.[1] These prescription errors may lead to adverse drug events. The study done to assess adverse drug events by Bates et al. found 28% of adverse drug events t...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the common mistakes committed by postgraduate students as well challenges they faced during writing their proposals. obtained a convince sampling in which 15 English Department, University Aden were recruited. In study, data was collected using students' proposals, and correction forms, focused group discussion. researcher analyzed used qualitative an...

Lexical bundles, as building blocks of discourse, play vital roles in helping members from the same academic community achieve successful communication and disseminate sustainable disciplinary knowledge. However, little attention has been paid to lexical bundles postgraduate writing. Drawing on Biber et al.’s (1999) structural taxonomy Hyland’s (2008a) functional taxonomy, we identified compare...

background: the first stage of the accreditation, process as the most important way of assurance and improvement of the quality of high education process is collection of standards. to describe present and desirable quality of nursing and midwifery postgraduate education via accreditation process in iran, we decided to compile applicable standards in this field, using available international st...

INTRODUCTION There is a growing trend in online education courses in higher education institutes. Previous studies have shown that high levels of self-direction are essential for successful online learning. The present study aims to investigate challenges of and barriers to self-directed virtual-learning among postgraduate students of medical sciences. METHOD 23 postgraduate virtual students ...

This academic essay is an assessed coursework in Teaching English Professional and Academic settings (TEPAS) for taught postgraduate School of Languages, Linguistics, Queen Mary University London (2018). In Purposes (EAP) or Specific (ESP) settings, teaching reading writing integration considered to encourage ‘authenticity’. To discuss above statements a critical way, this first introduces the ...

<p>With a highly competitive higher education market in Australia, there is significant push for professionals to obtain further qualifications. While much has been written on the progression Principalship schools, paucity of writing into Middle Leadership. A survey middle leaders Australian schools indicate that skills learned postgraduate qualifications are valued by people entering Lea...