In 1992, the American Society of Echocardiography published a report of the Sonographer Education and Training Committee's recommendations for education of sonographers who perform echocardiographic procedures. Since the publication of the original document, there has been continual progress in technology with the development of more sophisticated diagnostic applications that allow more informa...

Over the years, there have been numerous definitions of curriculum integration, where the curriculum is interwoven, connected, thematic, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, correlated, linked, and holistic (Fogarty and Pete 2007). Curriculum integration is based on both philosophy and practicality, drawing together knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values from within or across subject areas t...

It is always difficult to reply to someone who is so enthusiastic about his training program, as Joshi appears to be [1]. Looking at the Cardiothoracic Surgery Syllabus [2], it is getting even more difficult to do so, since I have to admit that at the end of this training, each trainee in the UK should be competent in the critical care of patients who have undergone cardiac surgery. However, th...

In 1999 the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) released a document entitled “Harmonization of Professional Standards” [1] which had been developed by a small working group within the Technical Committee for Education (IFIP TC3). The purpose of the document was to set out what could become an international standard for professional practice in Information Technology. The ...

During the last decade, medical education in the German-speaking world has been striving to become more practice-oriented. This is currently being achieved in many schools through the implementation of simulation-based instruction in Skills Labs. Simulators are thus an essential part of this type of medical training, and their acquisition and operation by a Skills Lab require a large outlay of ...

When it was initially proposed, at the October 1979 annual meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, that a Committee on Accreditation of Fellowship Programs in Forensic Psychiatry be created, it was not immediately clear that the project would be carried through to completion. The first two persons who were approached with the suggestion that the topic be presented at either t...

introduction: since hospitals give their services to a huge number of people most of whom are sick and disabled and also because they have many expensive and modern equipment and facilities, any negligence regarding the standards of safety management leads to severe damages including financial ones. this may even result in irrecoverable consequences such as their clients’ death. so, this invest...

This paper describes a coupling between a real NC control unit and a virtual machine and its application potentials for vocational training. First the Hardware-in-the-Loop coupling, including the setup of the machine model, the connection itself and the realized material removal process, is described. Based on that, possible application scenarios for vocational training are discussed. In additi...