<p style="text-align: justify;">The teaching of speaking in English as a foreign language (EFL) classes the Province Aceh did not rely on suggested techniques and methods. This teacher-designed technique, which was mainly textbook-based, has left an unpleasant learning experience among students. Therefore, we conducted quantitative research study to experiment with how students responded ...

UNLABELLED Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma (FAST), a type of training for unique ultrasonography competence, represents a necessity in the emergency assistance of the trauma patient. The principal OBJECTIVE of this prospective study was to evaluate the teaching performance and to identify the training necessities related to the curriculum of the unique ultrasonography competence--F...

Thirty-eight teaching hospital affiliated accident and emergency departments were surveyed by post to try to find if there had been any change in undergraduate medical student teaching over the past 10 years. Twenty-six departments replied. The results showed that although there has been an improvement in the teaching of A&E medicine to undergraduates in the past few years there are still some ...

Chris Bigum is Senior Lecturet Faculty of Education, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoia. He is curcntly intercsted in working on: education in postnodem conditions, non-lineat dynanics, self-oryenising systems, cyberspace, the Nintendo generation. His hobbies include bodysu rting, swin ming, photography, attending electronic salons and apprenilce parenting. v NNECTING SCHOOLS TO GLOBAL NETWORK...

BACKGROUND There is very little information available on self-perceived competence levels of junior medical doctors with regard to definitions by the National Core Curriculum (NCC) for Undergraduate Medical Education. AIMS This study aims to determine the perceived level of competence of residents during undergraduate medical education within the context of the NCC. STUDY DESIGN Descriptive...

CONTEXT In 2007, the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine initiated its Primary Care Scholar Pathway (PCSP), a 3-year osteopathic predoctoral education curriculum. OBJECTIVE To assess preliminary outcomes of the PCSP curriculum. METHODS Scores for the Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examination (COMLEX-USA) Levels 1 and 2-Cognitive Evaluation (CE) and pass rates for Level 2...

PURPOSE To provide a guideline curriculum covering theoretical and practical aspects of education and training for Medical Physicists in Nuclear Medicine within Europe. MATERIAL AND METHODS National training programmes of Medical Physics, Radiation Physics and Nuclear Medicine physics from a range of European countries and from North America were reviewed and elements of best practice identif...

BACKGROUND The use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (ATOD) by adolescents is a national health issue. One way in which the United States approaches the prevention of substance use among adolescents is by teaching high school students about ATOD at school. The curriculum for health education courses is based upon each state's framework. The purpose of this study was to conduct a 10-year foll...

Most, if not all, readers are familiar with the criticism of a typical U.S. mathematics curriculum being “a mile wide and an inch deep” (Schmidt, McKnight, & Raizen, 1997). A recent analysis by the Center for the Study of Mathematics Curriculum (Reys, Dingman, Sutter, & Teuscher, 2005) reaffirms the crowdedness of most state mathematics standards. However, criticism of U.S. mathematics curricul...

BACKGROUND The Johns Hopkins Hospital Pediatric Emergency Department (PED) was invited to collaborate with the National Referral Hospital (NRH), Solomon Islands, to establish an acute care pediatric education program for the country's inaugural class of national medical graduate trainees. OBJECTIVE To develop and evaluate a sustainable, need-based post-graduate training curriculum in pediatri...