BACKGROUND Medical Education is becoming increasingly community-oriented, student-centred, self-learning and self & peer-assessing process especially in the undergraduate years. This is happening because of increasing patient awareness of their rights in our new healthcare world of increased consultant responsibility; and implementation in the U.K. health institutions of the 'European Working T...

Teaching statistics is a critical and challenging issue especially to students from multidisciplinary and diverse postgraduate backgrounds. Postgraduate research students require statistics not only for the design of experiments; but also for data analysis. Students often perceive statistics as a complex and technical subject; thus, they leave data analysis to the last moment. The lecture needs...

Prior to 2006 Irish midwifery education was available only in the form of postgraduate inhospital training to registered nurses. Since 2006 midwifery education continues to be offered as a postgraduate course but it is also available as a direct entry undergraduate programme in a number of Irish third level institutions. In line with these changes in Irish midwifery education, the National Coun...

Niall McCrae, Lecturer, and Katerina Kuzminska, Postgraduate Nursing Student, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College, London, chart the influences of Nightingale's Poor Law infirmary reforms.

Assistant Professor, Department of Restorative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Azad University, Tehran, Iran Dentist Dentist, Epidemiologist, Member of Research Center of Dental Faculty, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Dental Student Associate Professor, San Antonio Dental Faculty. Texas, USA Postgraduate Student, Department of Endodontics, School of Dentistry, Azad Universi...

Recent years have witnessed an increasing trend towards research work amongst the undergraduates. Evidenced by increasing number of student medical journals and incorporation of student sections in established international journals, the inspiration enhances students' aptitude towards medicine and boosts their future career prospects as competition toughens for postgraduate posts in residency t...