The 2020 Vision of Faculty Development Across the Medical Education Continuum conference, and the resulting articles in this issue, addressed a number of topics related to the future of faculty development. Focusing primarily on the development of faculty members as teachers, conference participants debated issues related to core teaching competencies, barriers to effective teaching, competency...

The first undergraduate programs on Information Systems (IS) appeared in Brazil in the 1980’s and had a considerable expansion since the following decade. Since these programs are still quite recent and in the process of consolidation, it is important to evaluate the curricular approach of existing IS programs in contrast to the official requirements and prescriptions, so as to verify whether t...

The Healthy People Curriculum Task Force was established in 2002 to encourage implementation of Healthy People 2010 Objective 1.7: "To increase the proportion of schools of medicine, schools of nursing and health professional training schools whose basic curriculum for healthcare providers includes the core competencies in health promotion and disease prevention." In 2004, the Task Force publis...

BACKGROUND The relationship between physical activity and health status has been thoroughly investigated in several studies, while the relation between physical activity and socio-economic status (SES) is less investigated. The aim of this study was to measure the extra-curricular physical activity of adolescents related to the socio-economic status (SES) of their families. METHODS The survey...

BACKGROUND Ethics is a discipline, which primarily deals with what is moral and immoral behavior. Public Health Ethics is translation of ethical theories and concepts into practice to address complex multidimensional public health problems. The primary purpose of this paper was to conduct a narrative literature review-addressing role of ethics in developing curriculum in programs and schools of...

PURPOSE To determine the state of ultrasound education in U.S. medical schools and assess curricular administrators' opinions on its integration in undergraduate medical education (UME). METHOD In 2012, curricular administrators at 134 U.S. MD-granting medical schools were surveyed concerning the nature of ultrasound education in medical school. The questionnaire sought ultrasound education p...

O texto focaliza o debate sobre teorias e políticas educativas, argumentando que intentam controlo dos pensamentos das práticas se desenvolvem nas escolas, numa espécie de colonização epistemológica ontológica sujeitos. Propomos, a partir da discussão teórica fundada na revisão bibliográfica interpretativa, ancorada nos pressupostos curriculares críticos pós-críticos nossa prática pedagógica, r...