BACKGROUND Problem-based learning (PBL) is a constructivist model of education that uses ill-structured, authentic problems to stimulate and organize all learning. The major goal of PBL is to help learners construct knowledge in contexts similar to the real-world environments in which the knowledge will be used. Although PBL is a widely accepted educational method, controversy persists about it...

INTRODUCTION Australian medical education is increasingly influenced by rural workforce policy. Therefore, understanding the influences on medical graduates' practice location and specialty choice is crucial for medical educators and medical workforce planners. The South Australian Flinders University Parallel Rural Community Curriculum (PRCC) was funded by the Australian Government to help add...

In The continuously increasing enrolment of higher education has created some employment problems. It is very meaningful that we scientifically forecast and analysis the graduates employment trends. Based on the basic principle of Grey Model with First Order Differential Equation and one Variable (GM(1,1)) and Power Function x   Transformation, in this paper, a new Variable Weights Buffer Fir...

Leisure studies graduates seek employment in a highly competitive marketplace. In addition to their degree qualification, graduates need to have a core of generic skills and attributes that are sought by their industry sector employers. As part of a larger study, graduates from Griffith University’s leisure management degree (1997-2000) were surveyed to explore their perceptions of how their ge...

introduction: attempts from some colleges of medicine in iraq were made trying to overcome the problems and suffocations that faced undergraduate medical studies in our country and trying to respond to our community health needs to increase awareness, evidence-campaign for staff members of the college and for administration and students focusing mainly on medical education quality and best prac...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Our objective was to assess practicing family physicians' confidence and participation in a range of community-related activities. Additionally, we assessed the strength of the relationship between the physicians' reported medical school and residency training in community-related activities and their current community activities, as well as whether they were practicin...

UNLABELLED One of the key features affecting the transition from university to paid employment is the graduate's perception of their capability to satisfactorily perform the work of a graduate. In some professions such as in nursing, the concept of "transition shock" is referred to. There is a need to understand how pharmacy students perceive the transition to their first job as intern pharmaci...