The duty to provide for the medical inspection ofchildren immediately before or at the time ofor as soon as possible after their admission to a public elementary school, and on such other occasions as the Board of Education direct, and the power to make such arrangements as may be sanctioned by the Board of Education for attending to the health and physical condition of the children educated in...

Medical education is constantly undergoing revision and renewal in attempts to ensure appropriate depth and breadth of knowledge of basic and clinical sciences as well as provide an environment that encourages life-long learning and integrative reasoning skills. An overview of the most recent comprehensive (130/ 141 accredited medical schools in the United States and Canada) report on medical e...

ALTEX 22, Special Issue 2, 2005 46 Alternatives to Animal Experimentation in Undergraduate Curricula at Medical Schools – Analysis of Current Trends in the Czech Republic Miroslav Cervinka, Emil Rudolf 1 and Zuzana Cervinkova Charles University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Biology and Genetics, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic; Charles University Faculty of Medicine, Department of P...

This article provides a list of helpful teaching tips for instructional librarians who need to meet the changing generational needs of their patrons. Specific generational qualities and attitudes of Generation X and Generation Y are discussed along with educational techniques and software recommendations. These tips are based on the authors' experiences at Drexel University's Hahnemann Library ...

BACKGROUND Disparity in health status and healthcare outcomes is widespread and well known. This holds true for Indigenous peoples in many settings including Australia and Hawaii. While multi-factorial, there is increasing evidence of health practitioner contribution to this disparity. This research explored senior medical students' clinical decision-making processes. METHODS A qualitative st...

Medication Safety has been an established pharmacy specialty in Australian hospitals since the early 2000s and is now one of the ten Australian hospital accreditation standards. Although advances have occurred, medication-related patient harm has not been eradicated. Victorian undergraduate pharmacy programs include some aspects of medication safety, however clinical pharmacy experience, along ...

Museums and science centers are increasingly launching e-learning centers to support their educational mission. Concurrently, large multimedia databases, termed content databases, are being created to store and manage digital representations of the museum’s physical collections, such as scanned images, text documents and videos. Content databases can provide valuable information and data for us...

background: because of educational responsibilities and direct contact with people, health personnel (known as behvarzes in iran) need to be properly educated. therefore, educating and empowering the instructors of health centers (or behvarzi centers) regarding teaching and learning processes, such as selection of educational objectives and using appropriate educational technology, can positive...