Purpose: This qualitative study aimed to explore the perceptions of radiology leaders in Midwest dental schools regarding the integration of Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) education into pre-doctoral curricula. The objectives included identifying barriers and facilitators to the incorporation of CBCT education, assessing its necessity for…

Background/Objective: Shared decision making (SDM) is a model of communication between the doctor and patient that helps to empower the patient. SDM is a recent improvement in patient care that allows the consideration of the patient's preferences in the planning and implementation of the treatment plan, which is patient centered. Purpose: This…

The article describes possible explanations for the relative decline in teacher salaries during recent decades. The article focuses on the Norwegian case, but the situation regarding teacher salaries in Norway is equivalent in many other countries across the globe. Based on comparisons with other professions, three contributing explanations are…

Flipped Learning is a teaching method that gives learners the opportunity to learn both online and face-to-face. In the Flipped Classroom, students learn the basic content independently before class and then have the opportunity to discuss, solve problems, and develop skills in class. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the Flipped…

Background: Academic integrity is an essential quality to uplift the standards of higher education and plagiarism destroys it. Aims: This study aimed to explore the attitude toward plagiarism (ATP) and its association with gender, hours of Internet use among postgraduate (PG) students in a tertiary care teaching and research institute in South…

Surgeons, given their knowledge, skills, and experience in patient care, are often the primary educators of residents, fellows, and practicing surgeons. However, their lack of formal training in instructional practices may limit their effectiveness in the classroom. This study examined the importance of faculty development for surgeon educators…

This article explores the appearance and reality of education fever and factionalism in contemporary South Korea from a sociopolitical perspective. To discuss this study logically, three research questions are addressed. First, how was Korean educational fever appeared and developed in Korean cultural history? Second, how was factionalism formed…

Purpose: Health professions education (HPE), particularly dental education, nursing education, and medical education, had been standardized in the Philippines and the rest of the Southeast Asian nations. This study evaluated the interests of Filipinos in HPE through relative search volume (RSV) trends of search terms including dental degree (DMD),…

Introduction: Due to the Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) lockdown implemented by the government, we had to transform our classes into the online sphere. The most commonly used methods of online teaching in Government Medical College, Thrissur were, live online lectures, PowerPoint presentations with narrations, prerecorded videos and…

Stress has been an important topic that has been interest of many researchers for decades. It has proven to have several negative effects on well-being as well as having vital effects on health. Also it effects students' academic success in dental schools which are known to be highly stressful environments due to complicated theoretical knowledge…

The New World Kirkpatrick (NWKM) four-level model is a new vision of the Kirkpatrick Model. NWKM adds new elements to recognize the complication of the educational program background and to evaluate the effectiveness of continuing education. This study used data collected from subjects, distributed to 393 participants enrolled in an acupuncture…

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, students' right to education has been threatened globally, and medical colleges are not an exception to this. During COVID-19 induced lockdown, medical colleges had to resort to online classes instead of regular academic sessions. Medical colleges and other higher education institutions in India…

The COVID-19 outbreak across the globe has forced educational institutions including medical schools to suspend campus learning in order to curb the spread of the virus. This has forced the teaching community to think of new avenues and alternate strategies for engaging our students. Many institutes of higher education have shifted to online-mode…

This e-book is a collection of educational projects completed by the alumni of National Teacher Training Centre (NTTC), Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) and was published by the Alumni Association of NTTC, JIPMER in association with the Dept. of Medical education, JIPMER. The main objective of this…

Behavior, social, psychological, and biological factors affect health and disease. It is widely recognized that behavioral and social sciences should become an integral part of medical training. Integrating behavioral and social science into the curriculum is a key issue emphasized in many research. Despite the critical role of behavior and social…