This paper draws from a number of international and national surveys of the situation of physical education in schools and will report on the worldwide situation of school physical education as well as developments since the Physical Education World Summit held in November 1999 in Berlin. The data generated from the surveys provide an indication of patterns and trends in school physical educati...

Students can create products that take the form of instructional materials. A scoping review was carried out to map research field student-generated teaching materials, focusing on product types, information sources, learning-related matters, and researchers’ explanations. Based 280 articles, four types were identified: audio/visual questions, texts, educational games. Studies gathered from cre...

Data on the quality of a modified method for producing multiblocks from conventional blocks of paraffin wax embedded histological material are reported. Originally devised as a way of assessing antibodies for immunohistology, the technique is particularly suited to producing a set of reference and teaching material for use by trainee and senior pathologists.

Background and aim: Gender medicine takes into account biological and social differences between men and women in terms of prevalence and course of disease, diagnosis and therapy. Medical students should be made aware of this in the early stages of medical education. However, there is hardly any teaching material currently available. This article presents the adaption and first use of the Germa...

This paper deals with the issue of how to assess the quality of online learning and teaching material. As evaluator for eLearning processes and products one is confronted with the fact that not only learners, but also learning facilitators (teacher/tutor) have a subjecetive perceiption of eLearning quality. In this paper we present different quality evaluation approaches specifically for develo...

PURPOSE The aim of this study is to see what medical students think about the role of spouse of a devoted medical doctor through the book reports of The Painted Veil (1925). METHODS The 53 medical students were asked to read Maugham's The Painted Veil and to have a discussion. In their book reports, following questions were asked to be included: What it is like to be married a devoted medical...

Medical Council of India (MCI) is an autonomous regulatory authority responsible for setting the standards of undergraduate as well as Postgraduate Medical Education besides certifying the availability of adequate infrastructure, clinical teaching material, and the trained workforce in the training institutes. Specifically, the Postgraduate Medical Education is governed by the MCI Postgraduate ...

Teaching hospitals are the principal site of many specialized surgical procedures. The recipients of these procedures tend to be younger, male, and nonwhite and tend to reside in either the poorest or the most affluent neighborhoods. Although the numbers of these procedures performed at major teaching hospitals increased dramatically between 1989 and 1995, they accounted for only a modest propo...

When writing can change your life, when writing can enrich you by offering much money, why don't you try it? Are you still very confused of where getting the ideas? Do you still have no idea with what you are going to write? Now, you will need reading. A good writer is a good reader at once. You can define how you write depending on what books to read. This teaching rounds a visual aid to teach...

Under the auspices of a DAAD funded educational project, a subproject devoted to different aspects of teaching the Java programming language started several years ago. The initial intention of the subproject was to attract members of the subproject to prepare some teaching materials for teaching essentials of the Java programming language. During the last two years, some advanced Java topics ha...