Introduction: Many medical faculties are introducing faculty development programmes to train their teaching staff with the aim of improving student learning performance. Frequently changing parameters within faculties pose a challenge for the sustainable establishment of such programmes. In this paper, we aim to describe facilitating and hindering parameters using the example of the basic teach...

BACKGROUND Expanding clinical teaching opportunities is essential for securing a sustainable health workforce. Although Tasmanian general practitioners (GPs) are keen to provide learning opportunities for medical students, they have identified time pressures due to a need to meet patient service demand and a need for more guidance on effective clinical teaching, as factors impacting their abili...

The process triggered by the Bologna Declaration has been producing significant results of various types in the EU Higher Education sector. After reviewing some of the consolidated outcomes of this process, reference is made to a novel trend that has emerged recently and which is geared towards the requirement that by 2020 all staff teaching in higher education institutions should have received...

During the past 10 years the care of children with handicaps has assumed an increasingly important role in paediatric practice. This is reflected in the recent expansion and reorganisation of the community child health services and of training programmes and professional examinations. Caring for families who have a handicapped child entails a delicately balanced partnership between parent, chil...

El Real Decreto 1086/1989 de 28 de agosto, introdujo en el régimen retributivo del profesorado universitario un nuevo concepto destinado a incentivar la actividad investigadora mediante evaluaciones anuales que quedaban encargadas a una comisión evaluadora, la Comisión Nacional De Evaluación De La Actividad Investigadora (CNEAI). La evaluación de la actividad cientı́fica es un proceso reglado en...

OBJECTIVE To describe and analyze the teaching of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy on Brazilian undergraduate nursing programs. METHOD Integrating an international multicentric study, a cross-sectional online survey was conducted between May and October 2010 with 571 undergraduate nursing programs in Brazil RESULTS Responses were received from 142 programs, 75%...

Many governments are emphasizing the need to improve ICT skills, research and innovations, often making special reference to the role of higher education. At the 2003 conference of NACCQ, several authors reported on change and innovation in ICT teaching. Change in Higher Education in general continues, as was evident from some of the papers presented at the 2003 HERDSA conference in New Zealand...