The creation of a curriculum blueprint appropriate to the development of a professional nurse who is practice-ready for the current and future context of health service delivery must take account of the extant context as well as an unpredictable and sometimes ambiguous future. The curriculum renewal process itself ought to challenge existing long held ideals, practices, and sacred cows within t...

Graduate education in dental hygiene is imperative for developing a cadre of dental hygiene professionals who will lead the profession and assume leadership roles in health care and education, as well as developing scholars to participate in the generation and dissemination of knowledge. Dental hygiene graduate education is based on a body of knowledge that is specific to the roles of the denta...

The objective of this research paper is to define the significance forensic accounting and reflecting need including in curricula departments universities Kingdom Saudi Arabia. followed descriptive analytical approach. community consisted a sample representative faculty members Kingdom. Where (150) questionnaires were distributed (126) collected, i.e., response rate (84%). employed (SPSS) progr...

BACKGROUND Nowadays, there is an increasing interest in practicing evidence-based medicine (EBM) to provide valid and up-to-date information about health problems and procedures for solving these problems. However, studying EBM among other medical education disciplines remains unsatisfactory. AIM To design and pilot a basic course on EBM for undergraduate medical students in order to raise th...

Objectives: An interprofessional, collaborative group of educators, patient safety officers, and Federal program directors teamed up to create an integrated, patient safety-centered curriculum for the education of physicians, nurses, and other health professional faculty leaders. Methods: Executive and advisory committees became a collaborative team, surveying and cataloguing existing education...

OBJECTIVES The educational environment plays a crucial role in the learning process. We aimed to evaluate the educational-environment perceptions of Saudi urology residents using the postgraduate hospital educational environment measure (PHEEM) inventory, and to investigate associations of their perception with stages of residency program, regions of Saudi Arabia, and main sectors of the health...

In 2007, in collaboration with faculty from eight family medicine residencies around the country the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine launched the Integrative Medicine in Residency (IMR) program. The Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine defines integrative medicine as healing-oriented medicine that takes account of the whole person, including all aspects of lifestyle. It...

Introduction Many Australian university medical schools have struggled over the past decade to implement the professional standards and guidelines in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health into their already crowded curricula. Bond University was no exception – with good intent but mixed results. In 2012 Bond renewed it medical program curricula and developed an innovative Aboriginal and ...

Culture influences patients' beliefs and behaviors toward health and illness. As the U.S. population becomes more diverse, a critical need exists for pharmacy education to incorporate patient-centered culturally sensitive health care knowledge and skills into the curriculum. Nursing was the first profession to incorporate this type of learning and training into its curriculums, followed by medi...

The past decade has been turbulent for dental education, marked by debate about the future directions of the curriculum and the profession itself. The bulk of the dental school curriculum is still devoted to tooth restoration or replacement techniques, although the need for these procedures has declined. Some dental educators now advocate an oral physician model as the desired direction for the...