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Self-assessment is an integral component of learning and developing decision making and critical thinking skills in the practice of dental hygiene. Dental hygienists must think critically and develop problem-solving strategies during their formal education to ensure lifelong quality and ongoing development of their personal knowledge and skill as related to providing comprehensive, evidence-based patient care. The primary focus of this qualitative investigation was to obtain undergraduate dental hygiene students' perceptions of and experiences with self-assessment. The sample consisted of an intact undergraduate dental hygiene class of seventeen students in their final semester of a two-year, entry-level dental hygiene program at a community college in the southeast United States. Data for this research were obtained from three sources: 1) a program-designed self-assessment survey assignment, 2) in-depth interviews with four second-year dental hygiene students, and 3) program-de...

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- Dentistry, Adult Continuing and Professional Education, Accreditation, Qualitative Research

Extant literature has highlighted that business schools have been accused of promoting an educational ethos that emphasizes shareholder value and the pursuit of short-term profits and thereby preparing overly competitive future generations interested in profit maximization. This paper highlights the importance of integrating CSR into the mainstream of business schools' curricula, arguing for the responsible role that business schools should play but also emphasizing the strategic case for such integration. The paper analyzes the main challenges and opportunities that both hinder and facilitate mainstreaming of CSR at the heart of the business school curriculum and the role that the Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) can potentially play in this regard. The paper illustrates these drivers and constraints in the context of one specific business school in Lebanon that has successfully experimented with CSR mainstreaming, leading to a nuanced reflection on the pos...

In this study, the history and diversity of interior architecture education are accounted for. During the historical course, it is seen that discrete educational understandings have formed and reflected on contemporary interior architecture education. The differences in professional education are causing alienation in the professional knowledge base and culture. In order to protect the professional culture, rights, and limitations, professional organizations were formed. Additionally, to eliminate educational differences and for standardizing educational programs accreditation organizations have been formed.
In this study, the competencies constituted by the Higher Education Council, the criteria defined by ECIA in Europe and CIDA in the United States are explored. According to the mentioned criteria, the need for re-structuring of educational programs and the creation of a more unifying educational model is discussed.

- by Nilay Özsavaş Uluçay
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- Accreditation, Interior Architecture, Professional Education
- by Søren Berg
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- Patient Safety, Accreditation, Medicine, Humans

Primary health care encompasses laboratory testing where the entire analysis is performed by health care professionals in close proximity to the patient. The purpose of this survey was to understand the range of testing performed in primary health care in Sweden. The results obtained from the survey have been compared to data on the same topic published twenty years ago. The most frequently performed analyses in primary health care have barely changed in the last twenty years. For example, hemoglobin and sedimentation rate analyses are still prevalent. The variety of analyses performed in primary health care has increased, however. C-reactive protein is now a commonly performed analysis. Moreover, in this survey, the degree to which laboratories are quality assured and accredited has been investigated. Accreditation and quality assurance of laboratories varies regionally in Sweden with those facilities meeting the criteria varying from 0% in a province to 100%.

- by Pia Karlsson and +1
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- Primary Health Care, Accreditation, Medicine, Sweden
- by C. Evashwick
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- Program Evaluation, Health Professional Education, Long Term Care, Accreditation

There is considerable argument concerning the number of sentinel node biopsy cases with axillary dissection that surgeons should perform before they are eligible on abandoning axillary dissection in negative sentinel node patients. Papers that (1) address directly or indirectly the subject of credentialing or of learning curve, (2) report on a surgeon's performance, (3) are reported as feasibility or learning curve studies, or both, (4) discuss the learning curve issue, and (5) express an expert's opinion on the learning curve. The number of procedures of the learning curve can not be fixed for all surgeons. Only surgeons in specialized breast cancer centers can succeed in meeting current recommendations with 20 to 30 cases. Surgeons from affiliated community hospitals will need more than 30 cases, whereas broad-based surgeons might need as many as 60 cases with their current caseload. Not all surgeons will be able to offer the procedure to their patients by the current reco...

- by Eelco de Bree
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- Surgery, Breast Cancer, Treatment, Accreditation
- by Jia-Yush Yen
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- Engineering, Education, Engineering Education, Accreditation

One of the requirements for proper running of a pathology laboratory is implementation of a quality assurance programme. Forensic pathology is not exempted, especially so when cases are increasing in complexity. It is not difficult to introduce a quality assurance programme even in a small forensic centre. Among the steps that can be implemented including introduction of a set of

- by Beng Beng
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- Accreditation, Forensic Pathology, Peer Review, Work Environment

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Advanced maternity care training in family medicine is highly variable at both the residency and fellowship levels. Declining numbers of family physicians providing maternity care services may exacerbate disparities in access to maternal and child care, especially in rural and other underserved communities. Accreditation of maternity care fellowships and board certification may be one potential avenue to address this trend. This study sought to understand the perceptions and beliefs of key family medicine stakeholders in advanced maternity care regarding the formalization of maternity care training through fellowship accreditation and the creation of a certificate of added qualification (CAQ). METHODS In 2014 and 2015, the authors conducted semi-structured interviews with 51 key stakeholders in family medicine maternity care. Transcribed interviews were coded using an iterative process to identify themes and patterns until saturation was reached. RESULTS Pa...

- by Aimee R Eden
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- Obstetrics, Family Medicine, Accreditation, Family Practice
- by Jo Peat
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- Higher Education, Documentation, Mental Health, Medical Education
- by M. Mitchell Waldrop
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- Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Distance Education, Social Media

Background Over the past decade, hospitals in many countries, including Israel, have undergone an accreditation process aimed at improving the quality of services provided. This process also refers to the protection and promotion of patients’ rights. However, reviewing the criteria and content included in this category in the Israeli context reveals definitions and implications that differ from those presented by the law – specifically the Patient’s Rights Act 1995. Moreover, the rights included in it are not necessarily equally represented in other legislation. Methods This study seeks to examine the question of whether and to what extent the scope, contents, and definitions of patients’ rights in the JCI Standards are similar to or different from patients’ rights as they are addressed and protected in national legislation. The article provides a comparison and examination of the different regulatory frameworks of patients’ rights, especially those in the accreditation of healthcar...

- by Justine Naylor
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- Engineering, Program Evaluation, Health Care, Australia
- by MOHAMED BELLO FOFANAH
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- Human Rights, Accounting, Economic Growth, Human Development

Transfer of knowledge from the basic biopsychosocial sciences to patient care is a major task for dental students during their education. Computer-based interactive patient simulations can help students affect this transfer because simulations allow students to develop and practice problem solving and decision-making skills interactively within the context of patient problems. A program for authoring computer-based interactive simulations is described. Patient simulations can effectively integrate basic science relevance, preparation for clinical problem solving, teaching new clinical content and several other necessary elements into curriculum infrastructure. Case simulations also can contribute to evolving educational standards set out by accrediting bodies.

- by Louis Abbey
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- Educational Technology, Multimedia, Problem Based Learning, Accreditation
- by Luis Zayas
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- Psychology, Mental Health, Community-Based Mental Health Services, Quality Improvement
- by Douglas McGee
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- Emergency Medicine, Accreditation, Clinical Practice, Humans

Total Quality management (TQM) has many principles, and the objective of this study was to determine highest TQM principle which has the greater impact on overall hospital effectiveness as perceived by healthcare professionals working in accredited governmental hospitals in Jordan. A study survey instrument, designed to measure the impact of applying TQM principles on overall hospital effectiveness, then to find out the greater TQM principle which influence more the overall hospital effectiveness, Study questionnaire was administered to the healthcare professionals in the five governmental accredited hospitals in Jordan, The data collection where 1290 questionnaires. The response rate was 83.6% of the total questionnaires distributed. TQM principles were: Leadership commitment to quality, Customer focus, Continuous improvement, Teamwork, Employee involvement, and education and training. Multiple regression analysis using Beta Coefficient conducted, the result shows that the greater ...

- by Ahed J Khatib
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- Psychology, Quality Management, Accreditation, Public Health

Objective:The aim of this study was to design and present an appropriate validation model at the level of the Department of Islamic Azad University.
Methods: The research method is a combination of consecutive explanatory design and in terms of purpose is among the applied research. The statistical population in the quantitative part included the heads of departments and faculty members of the Islamic Azad University and in the qualitative part included experts and faculty members. Quantitative sample size of 36 department heads and 97 faculty members was determined by random stratified sampling method and in qualitative section 66 expert faculty members and field specialists were determined by non-random snowball sampling method. Researcher-made questionnaire, interview and checklist were used. The face and content validity of the questionnaires and research tools were determined using the opinions of experts, supervisors and consultants and the reliability of the questionnaires was estimated with Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.97. Descriptive and inferential statistical methods and structural equation modeling were used to analyze the data
Results: Findings showed that from the perspective of the sample, the quality of the dimensions and the process of implementing the internal and external evaluation plan of the university is above average.
Conclusion: The results showed that five steps are necessary for validation at the departmental level and the number of 8 factors, 42 criteria and 214 validation indicators were identified and the validation model has a good fit

- by Educational Measurement and Evaluation Studies and +1
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- Accreditation, Islamic Azad University, External Evaluation, Internal Evaluation
- by Anvar Velji
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- Accreditation, Learning, Curriculum, Advisory Committees
- by Dian Mulyaningtyas
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- Management, Education, Quality Management, Accreditation
- by Joseph Brimhall
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- Integrative Medicine, Naturopathic Medicine, Naturopathy, Chiropractic

I discuss the predicament that engineering-ethics education in Japan now faces and propose a solution to this. The predicament is professional motivation, i.e., the problem of how to motivate engineering students to maintain their professional integrity. The special professional responsibilities of engineers are often explained either as an implicit social contract between the profession and society (the “social-contract” view), or as requirements for membership in the profession (the “membership-requirement” view). However, there are empirical data that suggest that such views will not do in Japan, and this is the predicament that confronts us. In this country, the profession of engineering did not exist 10 years ago and is still quite underdeveloped. Engineers in this country do not have privileges, high income, or high social status. Under such conditions, neither the social-contract view nor the membership-requirement view is convincing. As an alternative approach that might work in Japan, I propose a pride-based view. The notion of pride has been analyzed in the virtue-ethics literature, but the full potential of this notion has not been explored. Unlike other kinds of pride, professional pride can directly benefit the general public by motivating engineers to do excellent work even without social rewards, since being proud of themselves is already a reward. My proposal is to foster a particular kind of professional pride associated with the importance of professional services in society, as the motivational basis for professional integrity. There is evidence to suggest that this model works.

- by Tetsuji Iseda
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- Engineering, Contracts, Philosophy, Applied Ethics

Globalization is a broad term referring to the increasing connectivity, integration, and interdependence of economies, societies, technologies, cultures, and political and ecological spheres across the world. This position paper was developed by a working group of the 2007 American Dental Education Association (ADEA) Leadership Institute. The authors explore the effect that globalization has had on dentistry and dental education to date and hypothesize what dental education could look like in the years ahead. While the paper is written from a North American perspective, some of the authors bring international expertise and experience to the topic of global dental education in a flat world. Specific issues and barriers addressed in this position paper include variations in accreditation and licensure requirements in dental education throughout the world; the historical development of dental education models (odontology and stomatology) and the need for congruency of these models in t...

- by Sharukh Khajotia and +1
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- Dentistry, Global Health, Forecasting, European Union
- by Venkatesh Kamat
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- Higher Education, Lean, Software Development, Productivity
- by Mark McGrath
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- Accreditation, Boolean Satisfiability
- by R. Hendrick
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- Global Health, Forecasting, International Cooperation, Accreditation
- by F. Scutchfield and +2
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- Education, Accreditation, Research, Humans
- by Joshua Burrill
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- Communication, Cardiovascular, Educational Measurement, Accreditation

This article suggests specific training standards are needed to challenge the silence around lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues in Counselor Education and to disrupt heterosexist practices in counseling training. The manner in which the CACREP Standards addresses the LGBT population is called into question, as the 2009 and the second draft of the 2016 standards continue to be vague concerning this population. The challenge of utilizing the historically exclusive and presently inclusive term “multicultural” in counseling when considering the LGBT population is examined. Recommendations for Counselor Education programs to go beyond the minimal CACREP Standards for preparing students to provide culturally competent services for the LGBT population are offered. Author's Notes Address correspondence to Omar A. Troutman, Department of Counselor Education, University of South Carolina, 266 Wardlaw College, Columbia, SC 29208, USA. E-mail: troutman@mailbox.sc.edu; omar...

- by Omar Troutman
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- Sociology, Accreditation, Counselor Education
- by Wasim Jafri and +1
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- Education for Citizenship, Developing Countries, Accreditation, South Africa
- by Sunil Nandraj
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- Developing Countries, Accreditation, Public sector, Health Policy
- by Rima R. Habib
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- Occupational Health, Lebanon, Accreditation, Humans

Assessment of student learning is a critical part of ACB-SP accreditation. Assessment efforts are often undertaken in business programs without the benefit of a complete and systematic approach. The use of a design-based assessment architecture ensures that assessment efforts are deployed in a systematic manner by focusing attention on critical elements. The key aspects include the structure of assessment elements, defining processes, developing organizational competency in assessment, and the use of appropriate technology. This white paper will introduce the use of a design-based approach as an assessment approach that reflects ACBSP requirements at the program and course level as well as evaluation of the performance of the business unit. Complete systems of methods rooted in design thinking ensure that all pieces of the assessment puzzle are put in place in a complete and systematic manner.

- by Douglas J Gilbert
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- Accreditation, Accreditation and Quality Assurance
- by Anthony Donato
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- Educational Measurement, Accreditation, Humans, Internal Medicine
- by Brian Collopy
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- Quality, Australia, Accreditation, Humans
- by Clement Zeh
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- Africa, Developing Countries, Accreditation, Quality Control

The field of environmental engineering is rapidly evolving, and environmental engineering education programmes have been forced to try to keep pace. Keeping up with all of these changes has been difficult for many university programmes, particularly those that do not have a separate environmental engineering curriculum. As a result, many universities are establishing separate environmental engineering degree programmes or even creating a separate Department of Environmental Engineering. This paper describes current curriculum development activities in North America and efforts to accredit these programmes. It also describes the structure and operation of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP), an organization in North America that is dedicated to improving environmental engineering education.

- by Paul Bishop
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- Environmental Engineering, Accreditation, Multidisciplinary, Curriculum

This paper describes a one-day workshop format for introducing ethics into the engineering curriculum prepared at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM). It responds to the ethics criteria newly integrated into the accreditation process by the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET). It also employs an ethics across the curriculum (EAC) approach; engineers identify the ethical issues, write cases that dramatize these issues, and then develop exercises making use of these cases that are specially tailored to mainstream engineering classes. The different activities and strategies employed in this workshop are set forth. Specific references are made to the cases and exercises developed as a result of these workshops. The paper ends by summarizing the different assessments made of the workshop by addressing the following questions: how did it contribute to the overall ABET effort at UPRM; could other universities benefit from a similar activity; and how did the participants evaluate the workshop?

- by Jose Antonio Cruz
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- Engineering, Applied Ethics, Health Professional Education, Computer Ethics
- by Thorana Nelson
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- Psychology, Family Therapy, Social Work, Psychometrics
- by dita federman
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- Occupational Therapy, Accreditation, Dance, The Arts
- by Barbara Bruns
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- Information Technology, Nutrition, Lifelong Learning, Higher Education
- by Stephen Duckett
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- Sociology, Anthropology, Australia, Quality of Mental Health Care

Chile implemented a new national quality assurance system for its higher education institutions in 2006 that included a set of policies and procedures for graduate education. Ten years after its implementation, this study looks at the perceived alignments and misalignments between the national accreditation goals and the graduate programs’ visions of improvement. By using the concept of loosely coupled systems, we studied eight science and technology master’s and doctoral programs at four research-oriented Chilean universities. In total, we conducted 26 interviews, visited all campus sites, and analyzed related documents. The results indicate that the national accreditation system improved academic quality across programs by strengthening the influence of university central administrations and raising faculty productivity standards. In particular, the accreditation meant a push for internationalization, which was welcomed at all institutional levels. However, after a decade, the accreditation system seems misaligned with programs’ new improvement efforts, such as the promotion of multidisciplinary work. To some extent, accreditation standards, based on strong disciplinary orientations, penalize a diverse student body and curricular innovation and do not consider the challenges of publishing multidisciplinary research.

- by Fikriye Uras
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- Chemistry, Laboratory Medicine, Turkey, Accreditation

The Iraqi Ministry of Health takes pride in this heritage and is deeply committed to improving the quantity and quality of hospitals and primary health care centers (PHCCs) in Iraq. With the remarkable increase in the number of hospitals and PHCCs in Iraq over the last decade, there is a need to enhance the quality of health services as well as modernize the health care facilities. The emphasis on robust health sector development in the Iraq National Development Plan further highlights the need to use standards and accreditation to assure quality of health services delivery.

- by Iraqi Medical Education
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- Iraq, Accreditation, Health, PHCC
- by Jeffrey Weinreb and +1
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- Radiology, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Forecasting, MRI