Expansion and changes in doctoral education globally have challenged universities to meet the needs of practising professionals. Values and purposes, structure and content and pedagogy of the provision are key considerations. This curriculum evaluation work investigated the views of 68 higher education staff mainly from Europe and North America…

Today's sociopolitical and economic conditions require adults to engage in informed, culturally sensitive coexistence. Correspondingly, adult educators need to design experiences that help prepare learners for cross-cultural collaboration and socially responsible careers in a global age. Framed through cosmopolitanism and situated learning…

The purposes for teaching basic sciences (service courses in which staff and students are drawn from different faculty) as part of a professional curriculum in Australia are examined with the conclusion that their value is not in their immediate usefulness alone but in their contribution to a liberal education. (JT)

Methods of planning the academic environment at the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine are described. Focus is on planning sequence, recruitment, staffing, facilities, curriculum, student and faculty scholarship, department organization, and priorities in decision-making. (LBH)

Examines the vision of the planners of the University of Hawaii School of Law with the focus on twelve specific aims for the school. (Author/RK)

The issue of quality in graduate programs is discussed generally, so that programs in the pharmaceutical sciences can be viewed in the broad context of science, rather than in the narrower confines of the profession of pharmacy. Consideration is given to goals, faculty characteristics, student quality, and development procedures. (LBH)

Describes the major features of the performance-based curriculum design in social work education. Issues discussed concern the emphasis on skill objectives, the place of student and faculty creativity, the integration of learning experiences, and the assessment of performance. (Editor/PG)

A commission on public relations education, consisting of four educators and four practitioners, met to deliberate and design a model for public relations education. The stated goals of the commission were to examine requirements for the professional practice of public relations, to relate these requirements to education, and to issue…

Integration of career and liberal arts programs can be educationally fruitful if similarities and differences in influences and ideologies are recognized. At an early stage, discussion should focus on compatible learning activities and outcomes. (Author/MSE)

The Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry's plan for the scope and direction of optometric education in the year 2000 is outlined, including recommendations for general training, basic and clinical sciences, and specialty training. (MSE)

Undergraduate program directors were surveyed about the appropriateness of eight research goals derived from the Council on Social Work Education's curriculum policy statement. A high level of support for seven goals was found, with the goal of preparing students to contribute to the generation of knowledge for practice the least popular.…

A discussion of medical ethics in the medical curriculum reviews its recent history, examines areas of consensus, and describes teaching objectives and methods, course content, and program evaluation at preclinical and clinical levels. Prerequisites for successful institutionalization of medical ethics education are defined, and its future is…

A survey of nursing leaders was conducted to identify values, opinions and ideas about the baccalaureate nursing curriculum, and the views identified were analyzed from the perspective of curriculum theory. The population consisted of 488 registered nurses listed in the 1985 Directory of Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing. Data were…

The first phase of the Association of American Medical Colleges' Medical School Objectives Project, to develop consensus on the attributes medical students should possess on graduation, is reported. Each of the four identified attributes is explained, and the associated learning objectives are stated. Attributes are the physician must be…

Guidelines for developing a pharmacy school curriculum based on the principle of pharmaceutical care and professional responsibility are offered, beginning with mission statements for profession, practice, and pharmaceutical education in general. The University of Toronto experience in designing such a curriculum is chronicled as an illustration…