This past year I had the pleasure of developing a grant proposal entitled, " The Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience Post-Doctoral Residency Program. " The concept entails establishing a national network of post-doctoral training positions in undergraduate neuroscience programs. The residents and the training sites would be selected through competitive applications. Regardless of whether the...

BACKGROUND Oral implant rehabilitation should be considered a treatment option for any edentulous patient and Implant Dentistry is currently a discipline taught in the undergraduate formation. The level of knowledge acquired and how the students perceive the quality of training in Implant Dentistry could assess to know if it is necessary to improve the syllabus. MATERIAL AND METHODS A questio...

Most medical schools, particularly those in the United Kingdom, have a final examination at the end of undergraduate medical training. Although the format of these examinations has been changed recently by the introduction of newer types of assessment such as objective structured clinical examinations, medical educators are still questioning their validity and worth. I believe that there is a s...

BACKGROUND Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a life-saving technique which is used after cardiopulmonary arrest. Chance of survival after arrest will increase if it is coupled with sufficient knowledge. Final year undergraduate health science students and interns manage many trauma and critically ill patients in our hospital. Even though all students took CPR training in undergraduate cour...

The consolidation of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) in universities has led to significant changes in student training. This paper, part of a Teaching Innovation Project, starts from new training requirements that are fit within Undergraduate Thesis Project, a subject that culminate student learning. Undergraduate Thesis Project is current assessment system that weigh the student acq...

With the recognition of the inadequacy of psychiatric services in India, maximinig health care delivery has become apriority. Tliere is therefore need to concentrate upon undergraduate psychiatric training as means to increase the availabe numbers of professionals equipped to treat psychiatric disorders (Channabasavanna, 1986). Towards this end the present M.B.B.S. Psychiatric Training Programm...

Clinical microbiology testing is crucial for the diagnosis and treatment of community and hospital-acquired infections. Laboratory scientists need to utilize technical and problem-solving skills to select from a wide array of microbial identification techniques. The inquiry-driven laboratory training required to prepare microbiology graduates for this professional environment can be difficult t...

Graduating medical students often feel relieved that the strenuous learning during undergraduatemedical education has ended when they eventually hold the license to practice medicine in their hands – just to discover that learning has only just begun when they enter postgraduate training. For many graduates the transition from the final year of undergraduate education to the first year of postg...