The Surgery Department of the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine is profiled in this article, including history, goals, opportunities, and demographics. Our research programs, clinical resources, teaching hospitals, and faculty diversity are reviewed. The local and national contributions of our faculty members and 212 chief residents who have completed our program are enumerated.

The new funding system for Australia's public hospitals has not been shown to be effective and is likely to fragment and undermine services that require cooperation rather than competition.

The main differences between American and Chinese higher education are displayed in administrative system, teaching methods, curriculum, assessment and moral education. However, the two countries also have enlightened each other for the past periods in educational idea and other aspects of higher education. The two countries both have advantages and shortcomings, so they open to each other and ...

English education is an integration of many factors such as teaching methods, curriculum design etc. In particular, teachers' ability plays an important role in English education. This paper discusses the development of teachers' teaching ability and proposes a series of basic requirements for more effective English education. It is argued that adoption of scientific and appropriate teaching me...

By analyzing the final results sample of teaching competition of the first young college teachers in Jiangxi Province in 2014, we give a comprehensive evaluation for the subject composition and the title of young teachers in higher education, which can provide a reference and basis for the university managers to adopt more scientific teaching methods and means to improve the quality of higher e...

AIMS AND METHOD At a London teaching hospital, the existing off-site consultation model psychiatric liaison service for older people was replaced with an on-site liaison model service in December 2000. Several indicators of the functioning of the service were audited using identical methods before and after this change. RESULTS The case-load increased by 50%, but the liaison psychiatrists were ...

Verbal communication, particularly the ability to give directions and understand them, is a key not only for learning but also for every day life. Since one main objective of schools for pupils with cognitive disability or learning difficulties is to prepare pupils to manage their every day life on their own, we expect that teaching pupils how to learn and work collaboratively by sharing tasks,...

In recent years a small number of web-based tools have been proposed to help students learn to write SQL query statements and also to assess students’ SQL writing skills. SQLify is a new SQL teaching and assessment tool that extends the current state-of-the-art by incorporating peer review and enhanced automatic assessment based on database theory to produce more comprehensive feedback to stude...

Small group learning combined with innovative teaching methods were introduced at tertiary level to teach computer-related subjects. Teams were constituted according to Belbin’s theory of effective team building. A study conducted over two years showed that certain qualities needed in the IT field were lacking in these students.

An e-learning approach for project management using the hybrid model has been developed, tested and improved. Two Norwegian universities have developed a continuing education programme at two levels. The client has been three industrial companies in the oil and gas sector. For delivery another two universities outside Norway has participated. The hybridmodel contains two plenary sessions using ...