UNTO teachers as you would have them do unto children" has been the underlying philosophy of the Bristol Township, Pennsylvania, Schools' in-service education program since 1955. This program has attempted to increase the effectiveness of learning experiences offered teachers in their continuing edu cation by making available to these learn ers the opportunity to assume responsi bility for thei...

précis:this debate article highlights some charac-teristics, progresses and challenges of the iranian health system. integration of medical education and health service provision, con-trol of some important communicable and non-communicable disease, some health ini-tiatives and health financing system have been discussed from the viewpoint of ex-managers of the system.

OBJECTIVE To explore the views of undergraduate medical students regarding the presence and sources of barriers to effective feedback in their setting. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted at the College of Medicine, Department of Medical Education, King Saud bin Abdul-Aziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from April to June 2010. A self-administere...

The Society for Public Health Education's (SOPHE) first three mid-year scientific symposia were evaluated three months after each meeting with questionnaires mailed to all national SOPHE members who attended and a 10% sample of members who did not attend. 3% of SOPHE members attended the first meeting, rising to 7% and 12% in subsequent years. Persons spending their time in direct education and...

Most emergency medicine (EM) residency programs provide an orientation program for their incoming interns, with the lecture being the most common education activity during this period. Our orientation program is designed to bridge the gap between undergraduate and graduate medical education by ensuring that all learners demonstrate competency on Level 1 Milestones, including medical knowledge (...

The human resources crisis in Africa is especially acute in the public health field. Through distance education, the School of Public Health of the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, has provided access to master's level public health education for health professionals from more than 20 African countries while they remain in post. Since 2000, interest has increased overwhelmingly to ...

BACKGROUND Canada's North is a diverse, sparsely populated land, where inequalities and public health issues are evident, particularly for Aboriginal people. The Northern public health workforce is a unique mix of professional and paraprofessional workers. Few have formal public health education. From 2009 to 2012, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) collaborated with a Northern Advisory ...

This paper explores a collaborative strengths-based approach to investing in pre-service early childhood teacher education in the area of child protection. The doctoral research of the author, which evaluated a Strengths Approach as a cross-sector tool for implementing change in early-childhood education and in doing so researched a potential investment in improving pre-service preparation, is ...

In 2008, the faculty of the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis designed a Master of Public Health program centered on transdisciplinary problem solving in public health. We have described the rationale for our approach, guiding principles and pedagogy for the program, and specific transdisciplinary competencies students acquire. We have explained how transdisciplinary content ha...

DIRECTORS OF RESIDENCY TRAINING PROGRAMS ARE now familiar with the expectations for learning and assessment within 6 core competencies, as required by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Although the field of medical education has made great strides in developing innovative curricula within the competency framework, a lack of operational definitions continues to impede pro...