Self-directed learning and evidence-based medicine are becoming increasingly important in medical education. Medical student research projects can enable students to learn research methodologies and critical analysis skills. Medical schools in developed countries have introduced research programmes for medical students. A few medical colleges in developing countries have initiated student resea...

BACKGROUND Nursing education is both formal and informal. Formal education represents only a small part of all the learning involved; and many students learn more effectively through informal processes. There is little information about nursing student informal education and how it affects their character and practice. MATERIALS AND METHODS This qualitative study explores undergraduate nursin...

Various applications of nanoscale science to the field of medicine have resulted in the ongoing development of the subfield of nanomedicine. Within the past several years, there has been a concurrent proliferation of academic journals, textbooks, and other professional literature addressing fundamental basic science research and seminal clinical developments in nanomedicine. Additionally, there...

Teach the Earth: The Science Education Resource Center (SERC) Portal for Geoscience Faculty (Carleton College). This portal is the gateway to thousands of pages of activities, workshops, course descriptions and more http://serc.carleton.edu/teachearth/index.html [1] See the SERC site Bringing Research on Learning to the Geosciences for a searchable database of articles on effective learning and...

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Dark fibre networks are considered the key element of future research infrastructures. The ownership of fibre leads to the freedom of development, freedom of choice of technology and freedom of design for research networks, as well as virtually unlimited transmission capacity. This concept has been confirmed by the new design of the GÉANT2[1] network, where majority of links will be based on da...

Most of the AI research is funded by government agencies: National Research Foundation (NRF), Ministry of Education (MOE) and A*Star Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC). In addition, there are also translational research projects that are funded by ministries (Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of Defense), defense research centers (Defense Science and Technology Agency, DSTA and...

Purpose. The authors proposed that introducing real patients into a pathology classroom early in medical education would help integrate fundamental principles and disease pathology with clinical presentation and medical history. Methods. Three patients with different pathologies described their history and presentation without revealing their diagnosis. Students were required to submit a differ...

PURPOSE To describe the measurement properties of instruments reported in the literature that faculty might use to measure professionalism in medical students and residents. METHOD The authors reviewed studies published between 1982 and 2002 that had been located using Medline and four other databases. A national panel of 12 experts in measurement and research in medical education extracted d...

A measurement instrument that allows for assessment of clinical reasoning skills, understanding and knowledge of clinical and basic science and application of basic science to clinical problems. MEQs constitute a series of questions that must be answered in the sequence asked, with no review and no possibility of correcting previous answers. Questions must be answered within the allocated time,...