Category Archives: Author

Interview with Nancy Borkowski, Co-editor of Case Studies in Organizational Theory and Behavior

Over the past two months, I’ve been writing about the importance of good case studies to engage readers’ higher order thinking skills (HOTS) and that the case study method is an example, par excellence, of problem-based learning (PBL), an educational … Continue reading

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Making Global Health Policy in the Classroom

Richard Skolnik – Author of Global Health 101 My students have always appreciated a focus on learning key concepts and frameworks that concern Global Health and the opportunity to apply them in class to “real life” situations. Given both student … Continue reading

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Jones and Bartlett Learning Author Eliot Sorel to Participate in Book Signing Event at APHA

Eliot Sorel, MD, author of the just-published 21st Century Global Mental Health will be part of a book signing event at the American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting in San Francisco next week. The APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition … Continue reading

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Special Author Event: Dr. Patti Rose at Books & Books in Coral Gables, FL

Are you going to be in the Coral Gables, FL area next week? Would you like to meet Jones & Bartlett Learning author Dr. Patti Rose, MPH, EdD, and learn more about her new book, Cultural Competency for the Health … Continue reading

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Rehearsing for the Real World: Case Studies and Role Play

Last month I wrote about the importance of good case studies to engage readers’ higher order thinking skills (HOTS) and that the case study method is an example, par excellence, of problem-based learning (PBL), an educational approach that engages the … Continue reading

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This is Your Brain on Fiction: Why Teaching with Case Studies Works

A health care management case study is a short story depicting an organizational scenario which can be non-fiction or fiction. As in all short stories, it should have a beginning, middle, and an end. And it should also engage readers’ … Continue reading

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Health Reform and the Supreme Court Decision – Part 4

Jones & Bartlett Learning Author and Health Policy Expert Joel Teitelbaum Weighs in on the Health Reform Case Before the Supreme Court. The U.S. Supreme Court has spoken: the Affordable Care Act is constitutional.  The Court last week handed down, … Continue reading

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Writing Competencies: Whose Responsibility Is It?

Over the past two decades, one of the oft repeated complaints  from colleagues is that our students don’t know how to write. Here are some explanations I’ve heard. They never learned how to diagram sentences in middle school. They text, … Continue reading

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Health Reform and the Supreme Court Decision – Part 3

Jones & Bartlett Learning Author and Health Policy Expert Joel Teitelbaum weighs in on the Health Reform Case Before the Supreme Court. During the final week of March, the United States Supreme Court engaged in an historic debate about the … Continue reading

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Jones & Bartlett Learning Author Wins AAPA’s Highest Honor

Ruth Ballweg, co-author of The Preceptor’s Handbook for Supervising Physician Assistants recently received the Eugene A. Stead Jr. Award at the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) 40th Annual PA Conference, IMPACT 2012, in Toronto, Ontario. Named for the founder … Continue reading

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