BACKGROUND The emerging field, Lifestyle Medicine (LM), is the evidence-based practice of assisting individuals and families to adopt and sustain behaviors that can improve health. While competencies for LM education have been defined, and undergraduate curricula have been published, there are no published reports that address graduate level fellowship in LM. This paper describes the process of...

First the article in consideration of processes in other subject areas will outline the relation between core curricula, their implicit standards and the needs for assessment and quality assurance in the area of informatics education. There is also placed emphasis on the importance of educational standards in the area of informatics education for general education and the acquisition of knowled...

Authors are with the Medical College of Wisconsin. Doctor Kochar is Senior Associate Dean, Graduate Medical Education. Dr Simpson is Associate Dean for Educational Support and Evaluation, Office of Educational Services. Ms Brown is Education Project Analyst, Office of Educational Services. ABSTRACT Nationally, Graduate Medical Education (GME) is facing a series of challenges. These include cutb...

OBJECTIVE To implement and evaluate an assessment system based on the 1998 Center for the Advancement of Pharmaceutical Education's (CAPE) Outcomes for students in advanced pharmacy practice experiences (APPEs). DESCRIPTION The system requires each preceptor to create a summative assessment tool by choosing the most important 20-30 CAPE competencies and sub-elements necessary for his/her phar...

Introduction. The role of library and information science professionals as knowledge facilitators is solidly grounded in the profession's theoretical foundations as much as connected with its social relevance. Knowledge science is presented in this paper as a convenient theoretical framework for this mission, and knowledge engagement services –knowledge brokering, knowledge readiness and knowle...

Background. The effective development of healthcare competencies poses great educational challenges. A possible approach to provide learning opportunities is the use of augmented reality (AR) where virtual learning experiences can be embedded in a real physical context. The aim of this study was to provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of the art in terms of user acceptance, the...

Introduction. We discuss the concept of core competencies applied to policies for teaching and training information professionals, particularly librarians. Method. Sixty graduates of the Institute were employed as information professionals. These sixty were asked to attribute degrees of importance to specific items associated with knowledge and skills that, within the scope of this research, we...