AIMS To compare alcohol use among US and Canadian college students. DESIGN Results of the 1999 College Alcohol Study and the 1998 Canadian Campus Survey are compared. SETTING One hundred and nineteen nationally representative US 4-year colleges and universities in 40 states and 16 nationally representative Canadian 4-year universities. PARTICIPANTS Randomly selected students under 25 year...

While Canadian occupational therapy recognizes knowledge translation (KT) as essential to clinical interactions, there has been little attention paid to KT activity in education and research. The objective of this study was to identify the nature of KT activities in which Canadian occupational therapy faculty engage. An electronic survey was sent to faculty at 14 Canadian occupational therapy p...

© 2007 Association médicale canadienne D Robert M. Janes, first Chairman of the Editorial Board, in his opening comments in the new Canadian Journal of Surgery (CJS) (vol. 1, no. 1 [Fig. 1], opined that “the establishment of a Canadian journal should not be regarded as further evidence of nationalism but as the assumption in yet another field of the obligations that attend our ever increasing s...

This paper shares a model for content development for teacher education in Western China. The goal of our project, Strengthening Capacity for Basic Education in Western China (SCBEWC), is to improve student learning through teacher education with a focus on student-centered instruction (SCI) and SCI's tie to multiple intelligences (MI). Both SCI and MI are consistent with the New Curriculum for...

OBJECTIVES The research investigated the extent to which students, residents, and faculty members in Canadian medical faculties use mobile devices, such as smartphones (e.g., iPhone, Android, Blackberry) and tablet computers (e.g., iPad), to answer clinical questions and find medical information. The results of this study will inform how health libraries can effectively support mobile technolog...