The new framework the Higher Education is immersed in involves a complete change in the way lecturers must teach and students must learn. Whereas the lecturer was the main character in traditional education, the essential goal now is to increase the students' participation in the process. Thus, one of the main tasks of lecturers in this new context is to design activities of different nature in...

BACKGROUND Many medical schools have embraced small group learning methods in their undergraduate curricula. Given increasing financial constraints on universities, active learning groups like seminars (with 25 students a group) are gaining popularity. To enhance the understanding of seminar learning and to determine how seminar learning can be optimised it is important to investigate stakehold...

OBJECTIVES Synthetic cannabinoid or "Bonzai" use is a public health issue as its use has increased in Turkey as well as all over the world. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the "Synthetic Cannabinoids Seminar" that was provided to physicians who work in emergency services, using multiple choice questionnaires before and after the seminar as a tool for evaluation. MATE...

BACKGROUND Training in palliative care is frequently requested by health care professionals. However, little is known in detail about the subject matters and the educational preferences of physicians and staff or assistant nurses in this field. METHODS All 897 registered GPs and all 933 registered home care nurses in the district of Steiermark/Austria were sent postal questionnaires. RESULT...

The following set of papers concerning contaminants in plastic were presented at a workshop held in association with the International Seminars on Planetary Emergencies, 36th Session, Erice, Sicily, 19th–24th August, 2006 (Ragiani, 2006). The World Federation of Scientists was founded in 1973, and since then the Erice International Seminars on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies have been hel...

The author compares the relative successes of two different teaching techniques in seminars for a first year university course in Finance. This paper tests to see if there is one overriding approach that enables all students to learn effectively in seminars or whether different students benefit from different teaching techniques. An experiment will be carried out on a subset of a first year Fin...

Vietnamese-American women who regularly see Vietnamese-American physicians are less likely to obtain Pap tests, perhaps because of the physicians' limited training in preventive medicine and the women's discomfort receiving Pap tests from male physicians. To address this problem, during 2001-2003, the University of California, San Francisco's (USCF) Vietnamese Community Health Promotion Project...