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Summer school is an important reform of the teaching organization mode home and abroad. The purpose is to make the best use of the limited teaching resources to meet the needs of the students. In recent years, a lot of universities has accumulated abundant experiences to set up summer school in China. This article focuses on the practice of summer school in Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, in order to provide some promoting strategies for summer school in domestic universities of Traditional Chinese Medicine in future.
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Objective Peking University Health Science Center,together with Keio University,King's College London and Karolinska Institutet developed a cooperative medical research summer school.It integrates the education methods of lectures,lab rotations and visits etc.,which forms a special model.This study aims to analyze and evaluate the effect,prospect and space for further improvement of the summer school.Methods Program documents review and evaluation,interview and questionnaire survey to teachers as well as students who engaged in such program.Results The sum mer school enhances the research cooperation and communication among faculties and students from participating universities;it is highly appraised by participating teachers and students;students are particularly satisfied in the following aspects:gain knowledge and skills in cross-cultural communication,develop global health knowledge,gain knowledge and skills in research,and also enhance the sense of commitment in research.Conclusions The research summer school can improve the postgrad uate education standard,promote scientific cooperation,and improve students' research capacity.However,there are still some space for further improvement,such as improve the recruitment process;enhance the platform support;strengthen the evaluation,feedback and follow up system;further develop the program in depth and breadth.
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The most important mission of a university is training students for their job roles.. Owing to the urgent need for general education of students, and curriculum overload during ordinary semesters, particularly at medical schools, it is necessary to plan some intensive courses to present the required topics to students. In this connection, the purpose of the present study was to evaluate the success rate of Shiraz first interdisciplinary summer school in achieving its educational objectives. The topics were divided into four general categories: medical education, medical ethics, management, and creativity with some subcategories for each topic. Totally, there were 83 specific topics discussed. 50 hours were devoted to the medical education topics, 26 hours to ethics, 24 hours to management and 10 hours to creativity. Different teaching methods such as lecturing, small group, problem-based learning were employed. A 360 degree assessment (multisource feedback) was used for assessing the students’ viewpoints, lecturers, and EDC (Education Development Center) faculty members. The rate of achieving the objectives was evaluated through a final test, submission of a project, supervision of group activities and the students’ self-assessment. A total of 63 students from 13 universities in Iran participated in this program. Regarding the education sufficiency, the students ranked medical education first, followed by creativity, management and medical ethics, respectively. The results of 360 degree assessment showed that more than 90% of the participants evaluated the program as very good or excellent. In addition, in an overall evaluation of the program in which the participants rated the program from zero to twenty, the mean was found to be 18.97 with a standard deviation of 1.18. Due to the magnitude of new developments in the world and the efficacy of this program, similar programs are recommended. It is now necessary that (EDC’s) all over the country employ experienced manpower and required resources.
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INTRODUÇÃO: Produzir tratamentos novos e efetivos aliados à prevenção adequada das epilepsias, a doença neurológica crônica grave mais comum e que acomete aproximadamente 1 por cento da população mundial, deve ser o principal objetivo dos sistemas de saúde de uma nação. OBJETIVOS: Nesse sentido, o principal objetivo de nosso artigo é divulgar a IV Escola Latino-Americana de Verão em Epilepsia entre os epileptologistas brasileiros.
INTRODUCTION: The development of new treatments and effective means to prevent the epilepsies, the most prevalent neurological disorder and that affects around 1 percent of worldwide population, must be the main goal of the health systems of a nation. OBJETIVES: Following these reasoning, the goal of our article is to promote the IV Latin-American Summer School on Epilepsy (LASSE) among Brazilian epileptologists.