Implementation of Faculty Learning Communities to Support Medical Education Scholarship in a Regional Campus System

Introduction: Medical educators need targeted faculty development programs to give them the skills necessary to produce educational scholarship for promotion and tenure.At the Indiana University School of Medicine, which encompasses a large regional campus system, we implemented Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) to provide a platform for medical

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Qualitative Data Requirements in the Divayana Evaluation Model

The need for qualitative data to support the evaluation process using the DIVAYANA (Description-Input-Verification-Action-Yack-Analysis-Nominate-Actualization) evaluation model is very important to obtain in-depth information about the effectiveness of e-learning platform utilization in ICT Vocational Schools.Those qualitative data are used to comp

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School House to Big House

In 1991, the Australian Government released the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Report.Of the 339 recommendations, Recommendation 62 identified that there was an alarming over-representation of Indigenous youth in contact with the criminal justice system.The report called for immediate action by governments to develop strategies

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Screening of Ophidiomyces ophidiicola in the free-ranging snake community annually harvested for the popular ritual of San Domenico e dei Serpari (Cocullo, AQ, Italy)

In the Abruzzi village of Cocullo (Italy), each year, on May 1st, local snake hunters (known as Serpari) display colubrids, captured in the wild, to commemorate the ancient ritual of San Domenico.The ascomycete Ophidiomyces ophidiicola (Oo) is the causative agent of ophidiomycosis, an emerging disease with Furniture sublethal effects.Skin lesions,

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