Over the past two years, through an NSF RCN UBE grant, the ASBMB has held regional workshops for faculty members from around the country. The workshops have focused on developing lists of Core Principles or Foundational Concepts in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, a list of foundational skills, and foundational concepts from Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics that all Biochemistry or Molecu...

This is the first of a series of papers in which we describe social relationships among mentally disabled adults who worked in four sheltered workshops. In this paper, procedures for observing and interviewing clients and for interviewing staff members were described, and data on reliability and general levels of social behavior were reported. Reliability of social behavior was significant acro...

background: we aimed to develop and evaluate outcomes of a blended learning (bl) program for nursing and midwifery education in iran. materials and methods: this was a participatory action research project. after designing bl website, providing technological infrastructures, and holding preparatory workshops, 22 blended courses were designed. bl method was implemented for one semester. students...

Background. As demand grows for training in Global Health (GH) among medical schools, GH courses can offer new opportunities for teaching in infectious diseases and tropical medicine. Here, we describe a new selective taught at New York University School of Medicine (NYUSOM), aimed at introducing future physicians to fund of knowledge and clinical skills relevant to the practice of global medic...

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OBJECTIVE To describe the process of integration and revision of a pediatric program curriculum which resulted in the creation of a competency-based framework recommended in the Brazilian National Curricular Guidelines. METHODS Quali-quantitative analysis of an intervention evaluating the students and professors' perception of the pediatric program curriculum (focus groups and semi-structured...

other professionals to achieve our common goal. Mapping vocational courses that are available to the target workforce, which take the form of on-the-job training (distance learning, e-learning or intensive fast-track training) supplied by employers or run independently, is also a priority. Nutritional content must be gauged to ensure standards are consistently being met in terms of comparabilit...