We are piloting such a model within our residency program with the first class to begin their three years of dermatology training in July 2016, followed by a (minimum) three-year term on faculty. We plan to provide our trainees with the tools they need to succeed as strong academic leaders and educators and, in so doing, fill a muchneeded gap in the physician workforce. Such a program might sim...

However, there is one area of academic surgical training that has been sadly neglected. That area—the training of surgical residents to become facile in the critical review of surgical literature—has been inadequate. It is almost as if we, as surgical educators, expect residents to learn the critical evaluation skills of peer review by osmosis—merely observing mentors and then practicing on the...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Family medicine faces declining student interest and funding. Predoctoral directors will help lead efforts to overcome these challenges. Academic success will be important for predoctoral directors to be effective leaders in academic health centers. We therefore sought to describe predoctoral directors and factors associated with their academic success. METHODS We ca...

There are times when books that have already appeared need to be once again brought to public attention, especially when they offer truly significant challenges to the ways in which many mainstream and critical educators construct their agendas. Amongst both mainstream and critical thinkers and educators, inequality has emerged as a defining concept of the current moment. Inequality has motivat...

In recent years, e-learning technology has been widely used in the academic institutes for supporting the effectiveness and efficiency of the students’ learning and the educators’ teaching, as a favored approach. However, regarding the student community, the extent to which e-learning technology is used, types of e-learning methods are being mainly used, as well as the barriers for enjoying the...

By its very nature education aims to change learners’ knowledge and this inevitably has an impact on the learners’ world views. This paper explores the dilemmas facing Information Systems (IS) educators with respect to their role in the process of changing learners’ conceptual views of IS. IS as an academic discipline has moved from a ‘technical’ to a ‘socio-technical’ domain, but IS practition...

On May 4, 1996, a conference sponsored jointly by the Division of Medicine of the Health Resources and Services Administration and the Ambulatory Pediatric Association brought together pediatric educators from academic medical centers and managed care organizations to address the challenges and opportunities for pediatric residency training, given current trends toward increasing managed care f...

Recent legislation encourages the integration of academic content in agricultural education. In North Carolina, high school agricultural education programs can now choose to offer a state adopted integrated biotechnology curriculum. Empirical evidence was needed to identify and describe factors related to the intent of agricultural educators to adopt this curriculum in order to assist teachers ...