BACKGROUND Despite frequent calls to improve undergraduate medical public health teaching, little is known about whether curricula have changed. We report a survey of undergraduate public health teaching in UK medical schools in 1996. The survey aimed to assess whether the General Medical Council's 1993 recommendations to strengthen undergraduate medical education in public health have been imp...

Many parallel programs are expressed in terms of conditional atomic actions with different degrees of atomicity. It is known that these synchronization primitives are expensive to implement in its fully generality [2]. Many platforms provide an efficient set of synchronization primitives. Semaphores are a very special case of conditional atomic actions which can be considered a canonical synchr...

Does enhanced transparency, through the Internet, boost the legitimacy of the EU? In this paper we present a critical perspective on the assumptions underlying the relation between transparency and legitimacy. We reconstruct three assumptions from EU policy documents – transparency strengthens input legitimacy, output legitimacy and social legitimacy – and then highlight several weaknesses. We ...

During June 2023, we met with the JCOM editorial board members to reflect on current status of journal and strategies for future growth. This provides a snapshot our position plans.

With the development of times and policies, vocational education has received more attention; Combining issues focused on in international teaching, expanding new teaching ideas, emphasizing integration theory with practice, improving teachers’ professional English abilities. At same time, continuously enrich multimedia methods, strengthen diversified assessment improve promote construction tea...

Introduction: Teaching renal physiology for undergraduatemedical students in an understandable way using methods whichimprove their deep learning has always been a problem. In thisstudy, Early Clinical Exposure (ECE) was used in teaching renalphysiology for the second year medical students in Shiraz MedicalSchool. This article aims to introduce and develop this programand also measure the attit...

Multicultural Mathematics aims to strengthen and expand students’ understanding of fundamental mathematics—number systems, arithmetic, geometry, elementary number theory, and mathematical reasoning—through study of the mathematics of world cultures. In addition, the course is designed to explore the connections between mathematics and the arts, to engage students’ imagination and creativity, an...

Reading is widely accepted as an effective way for EST learners to obtain information and knowledge, but most EST learners in China find that their reading competence is not satisfactory although they have a large size of EST vocabulary and study English grammar well. So how to improve EST learner’s reading competence remains a problem urgent to settle for EST teachers and researchers. Lexical ...

adverse drug reaction (adr) is one of the most life threatening problems, and the economic burden of adr is considerable. the main objective of this study was to assess the attitude of the kerman health system staff, to evaluate their knowledge of the spontaneous reporting system and to identify the reasons for low reporting rate. in this descriptive study, a persian translated questioner was u...