Thought,” university students are told that they are about to participate in a research project aimed at understanding “why differences in social and economic success existbetween graduates of different colleges and universities.” Half of the participants are presented with statistics indicating that alumni members of their own university group are significantly less successful in terms What th...

BACKGROUND The University of New South Wales (UNSW) Faculty of Medicine replaced its old content-based curriculum with an innovative new 6-year undergraduate entry outcomes-based integrated program in 2004. This paper is an initial evaluation of the perceived and assessed clinical capabilities of recent graduates of the new outcomes-based integrated medical program compared to benchmarks from t...

Problem-based learning (PBL) is popular in medical education in Japan. We wished to understand the influence of PBL on the clinical competence of medical residents, using self-assessment and observer assessment. Tokyo Women's Medical University (TWMU) implemented PBL longitudinally (long-time) for four years, and on this basis we analyzed whether long-time PBL education is useful for clinical w...

OBJECTIVES To explore how representatives from organisations with responsibility for doctors in training perceive risks to the educational progression of UK medical graduates from black and minority ethnic groups (BME UKGs), and graduates of non-UK medical schools (international medical graduates (IMGs)). To identify the barriers to and facilitators of change. DESIGN Qualitative semistructure...

In the past 5 years, there has been a significant rise in the number of trained and fully qualified specialists in intensive care medicine. Recent concerns about saturation of specialist employment opportunities and the prospect of new Fellows unable to find appropriate employment after completion of training has brought intensive care workforce issues to the forefront. The board members of the...

This issue of the Journal of Epidemiology includes a report titled “Educational Levels and Risk of Suicide in Japan: The Japan Public Health Center Study (JPHC) Cohort I” by Kimura and colleagues.1 These authors investigated the association between education level and suicide risk in a population-based cohort in Japan. They considered educational level to serve as a surrogate marker for socioec...

Despite an apparent increase in undergraduate neuroscience programs offered by colleges and universities, there has been little effort to document this growth. In the present report we describe our analysis of the expansion of undergraduate neuroscience programs of study over more than 20 years and detail a number of institutional characteristics of colleges and universities that offer undergra...

OBJECTIVES To describe the University of Tennessee PharmD/PhD program and assess the prevalence and characteristics of PharmD/PhD programs in the United States. METHODS Survey instruments were mailed in May 2004 to UT dual-degree program participants and deans of US colleges and schools of pharmacy. RESULTS University of Tennessee PharmD/PhD students completed more than 30 hours of graduate...

BACKGROUND With the influx of Australian medical graduates into the workforce, new clinical prevocational training rotations within general practice need to be developed. This study describes the relationship between general practitioner teachers' interest in hosting junior doctor rotations, and general practice characteristics including rural location, size and infrastructure. METHOD All GP ...

In 2011, 233 students were awarded by master’s degree diploma at the Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology. Master’s degree program Information Technology, offered by the faculty, has currently 10 branches. In branch Bioinformatics and Biocomputing, it was 8 graduates, in branch Information Technology Security 4 graduates, Information systems 74 graduates, Intelligent...