Russian Society of Cardiology, National Preventive Cardiology

Although cardiology was advancing rapidly in the 1950s it remained, like neurology, primarily a clinical discipline. Diagnosis relied on physical examination with some additional help from the electrocardiogram, chest X-ray and right heart catheterisation. Cardiac imaging was in its infancy. The specialty was led by some remarkable clinicians, notably Dr Paul Wood to whom I was house physician ...

the main purpose of this research is design a competency model for curriculum planners. analysis - inductively method with of the curriculum planner’s expert’s viewpoint was used. to determine the competency model for curriculum planner’s 5-stage methodology byham & moyer was used. in the first phase was reviewed subject literature and academic resources. curriculum experts were interviewed in ...

The ‘catalogue of knowledge and skills’ for sleep medicine presents the blueprint a curriculum, textbook, an examination on medicine. first catalogue skills was presented by European Sleep Research Society in 2014. It developed following formal Delphi procedure. A revised version needed order to incorporate changes that have occurred meantime International Classification Disorders, updates manu...

Our Editor-in-Chief, Magda Heras, died August 3rd, 2014, at 61 years of age. Magda was born on June 29, 1953, in Terrassa (Barcelona Province, Catalonia, Spain). She studied Medicine at the University of Barcelona (1972-1978), and completed residencies in Internal Medicine (Hospital Mútua de Terrassa) and Cardiology (Hospital Clínic de Barcelona). In 1986, she received her PhD from the Universi...

speaking of curriculum, very often we think of some exact, preplanned curricula determined for schools in advance. however in the new approach called emergent curriculum, all the beneficiaries including students, teachers, parents , society and all of whom are considered protagonists play some role in curriculum decision making and formation of learning. in emergent curriculum inspired by reggi...