Veterinary Professional Life (VPL) is a whole-of-course stream of interventions recently introduced to the Murdoch University veterinary curriculum, intended to raise the profile of, and student outcomes in, professional skills and attributes important to success in veterinary practice. These include not only veterinary-specific professional attributes (e.g. ethics, business, diagnostic skills)...

Professional Development is critical for improving and maintaining teacher quality and the effect flows on into the classroom. Factors influencing the success of Professional Development activities include potential for workplace change, the diverse effect and understanding of adult learning principles, subject specificity, effective mentoring and the relevance of the presented material. Releva...

The current research investigated how patterns of home and host cultural identification can explain which individuals who have lived abroad achieve the greatest creative and professional success. We hypothesized that individuals who identified with both their home and host cultures (i.e., biculturals) would show enhanced creativity and professional success compared with individuals who identifi...

Background: Observance of professional ethics by teachers and educators plays a very important role in creating a favorable ethical climate in the educational environment. Teachers' professional ethics have been discussed from numerous philosophical perspectives. In the meantime, one of the philosophers of existentialism who is particularly concerned with the issue of ethics in the human world ...

Every year schools and colleges of pharmacy face the difficult task of determining which students to admit to their professional programs. The task has become even more difficult in the past few years with the increase in applicants. The number of applications to pharmacy programs increased by 9.1%, 24.6%, and 41.7% in 2001, 2002, and 2003 applicant cycles, respectively.1-3 Similarly at South D...

It is increasingly suggested that political advocacy is a core professional responsibility for physicians. The author argues that this is an error. Advocacy on behalf of societal goals, even those goals as unexceptionable as the betterment of human health, is inevitably political. Claims that political advocacy are a professional responsibility are mistaken, the author argues, because (1) civic...