According to the history of education, the term ‘curriculum’ was originally related to the concept of a course of studies followed by a pupil in a teaching institution. The concept of “curriculum” was used in the English-speaking tradition as equivalent to the French concept programme d’études. Nevertheless, in recent decades, the concept of curriculum has evolved and gained in importance. Incr...

BACKGROUND This paper presents a critical reflection of the integration of Blended Learning (BL) into an undergraduate occupational therapy curriculum which was delivered through Problem Based Learning (PBL). METHOD This is a qualitative reflection of a Participatory Action Research (PAR) study using Brookfield's model for critical reflection of an educator's practice. The model uses four 'le...

PROBLEM ADDRESSED Residents in family medicine residency programs require comprehensive training in women's health best practices and resources. OBJECTIVE OF PROGRAM To provide a framework for the development and implementation of an integrated women's health curriculum for family medicine residency programs. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Objectives for each element of the program were the basis for ...

This paper reports on the experiences of four Australian teachers who provide English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instruction to Indonesian secondary school students in a regional area of Central Java, Indonesia. These four teachers were all native English speakers and experienced qualified teachers, however, the Australian State Department of Education that sent them to Indonesia did not provi...

CONTEXT The Rural Undergraduate Support and Coordination (RUSC) program has stimulated teaching in remote indigenous health, primary health care and international health for Australian students prior to their placements. Medical students have traditionally taken electives in the developing world, although these electives are of variable use to the communities hosting them and to the students. C...

While recognized as an important element of Information Systems (IS) curriculum, Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) remains absent from many universities and at most schools, or is only discussed at a theoretical level. However, the benefit of exposing students to a hands-on, enterprise wide system that integrates business and technology course content makes it attractive for adoption in under...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate a patient-centered medical training curriculum, the SELECT program, through perceptions of the inaugural student cohort. METHODS Data were collected from two focus groups conducted in the university setting, comprised of fifteen first-year medical students who participated in the SELECT program during its inaugural year. A questioning protocol was used to guide the focus...

A fragmented workforce consisting of multiple disciplines with varying levels of training and limited ability to work as a team often provides care to older adults. Interprofessional education (IPE) is essential for preparing practitioners for the effective teamwork required for community-based, holistic, person-centered care of the older adults. Despite numerous programs and offerings to advan...

BACKGROUND Providing comprehensive emergency preparedness training (EPT) for patient care providers is important to the future success of emergency preparedness operations in the United States. Disasters are rare, complex events involving many patients and environmental factors that are difficult to reproduce in a training environment. Few EPT programs possess both competency-driven goals and m...