PURPOSE The Mozambique Eyecare Project is a higher education partnership for the development, implementation, and evaluation of a model of optometry training at UniLúrio in Mozambique. There are many composite elements to the development of sustainable eye health structures, and appropriate education for eye health workers remains a key determinant of successful eye care development. However, f...

Background Pharmacology has been known to medical students as a hard-to-study subject that includes learning by heart hundreds of receptors and pathways, mechanisms of action, substances and side effects in a very limited time. Once graduated, young MDs are confronted with applied pharmacology without being properly prepared choosing and prescribing the right drug in the proper dose to individu...

Prof. Mohammad Mehdi Feizabadi, Editor, Iranian Journal of Microbiology Prof. Giovanni M. Giammanco (as representative of the colleagues of the Sections of Hygiene and Microbiology at the University of Palermo). Prof. Reza Ranjbar (as representative of graduated Iranian fellows and students who were under supervision of Prof. Caterina Mammina). Professor Caterina Mammina, 1957-2016 Volume 8 Num...

BACKGROUND The Longitudinal Analysis of Nursing Education (LANE) study was initiated in 2002, with the aim of longitudinally examining a wide variety of individual and work-related variables related to psychological and physical health, as well as rates of employee and occupational turnover, and professional development among nursing students in the process of becoming registered nurses and ent...

To assess the satisfaction levels of graduates of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland University of Bahrain (RCSI Bahrain). The graduate survey was administered to four groups of graduates of the RCSI Bahrain who graduated between the years 2010 and 2014. The graduate survey assessed five major domains and comprised 41 items. The RCSI Bahrain opened its doors in 2004, with the first class ...

The Stanford Medical Youth Science Program (SMYSP) is a biomedical pipeline program that seeks to diversify the health professions by providing academic enrichment in the medical sciences and college admissions support to very low-income high school students. Each summer 24 students are recruited from over 250 California high schools for the five-week residential program, led by 10 undergraduat...

OBJECTIVE To determine associations between admission markers of socioeconomic status, transitioning, bridging programme attendance and prior academic preparation on academic outcomes for indigenous Māori, Pacific and rural students admitted into medicine under access pathways designed to widen participation. Findings were compared with students admitted via the general (usual) admission pathwa...

introduction. undoubtedly knowing the students views and characteristics have deep effect on certifying the subject and all other educational activities. then this study is an analytic, descriptive and cross sectional survey to certify the students educational needs in their own definitions and how to improve it. methods. the samples were 155 students of different medical groups that had passed...

This study aims to determine the attitudes of individuals towards computer programming in terms of various variables. The study group consists of the students of Kastamonu University Department of Computer Education and Instructional Technologies Teaching (CEIT), Department of Computer Engineering, and Department of Computer Programming. Data were collected via Attitude towards Computer Program...

BACKGROUND Health research training is an important part of medical education. This study was conducted to assess the level of knowledge and attitudes regarding health research in a group of Pakistani medical students at Aga Khan University, Karachi. METHODS It was a cross-sectional pilot study conducted among a group of Pakistani medical students. Through stratified random sampling, a pre-te...