Education: training tomorrow’s scientists
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Aylin Sepici Dinçel
We are in the pleasant excitement of preparing an issue completely devoted to education. It is a gifted issue that was planned to honor Prof. Dr. Gül Güner Akdoğan who completed her terms as chair of the FEBS Education Committee. In 2001, Prof. Güner Akdoğan was invited to join the FEBS Working Group on Teaching Biochemistry and from 2008, was elected to be a member of the FEBS Education Committee founded by late Prof. Edward Wood (Leeds). Between 2008 and 2018, Prof. Akdoğan served as Chair of the FEBS Education Committee. In 2011, Prof. Akdoğan was elected to the Executive Board of ORPHEUS (Organisation for PhD training in Biomedicine and Health Sciences in the European system), and presently she is Co-Chair of the Labelling Committee. She served on the Curriculum Committee of Dokuz Eylül University Medical School as the coordinator of phase 1 for a period of five years, at the time the curriculum was changed from a traditional curriculum to problem-based learning (PBL).
We would like to thank the authors once more for their great contribution to FEBS Izmir Education Workshop Program and collaboration with their valuable articles to this issue which is attributed to Prof. Dr. Gül Güner Akdoğan and her long years of extraordinary work on education in life sciences.
The main aim of the workshop was to bring together the trainees and educators involved in the molecular life sciences, and discuss the most up-to-date concepts, practices and applications of this field. The main topics of the issue were innovation in education, virtual learning, postgraduate education and research. Besides, poster presenters had the chance to publish their posters as full text manuscripts.
We would like to thank the Prof. Dr. Ferhan G. Sağın to handle the manuscripts, made a great effort for putting together such a valuable and timely gifted issue, our reviewers Prof. Figen Erkoç, Asst. Prof. Ali Burak Özkaya, Prof. Bozkurt Aras, Prof. Meryem Selvi, Prof. Zeynep Başer, Prof. Navarro Antoni Pacrez and Prof. Perera Indika for their comments and TJB Technical Editors; Asst. Prof. Zihni Onur Uygun and Assoc. Prof. Duygu Şahin for preparing the manuscripts to production.
We are grateful to Prof. Dr. Doğan Yücel, Turkish Biochemical Society President and the Editor of Turkish Journal of Biochemistry for approving and gladly supporting this project.
On behalf of the Editorial Board of TJB, I wish to thank all the authors for their comprehensive contributions to Education and hope that the readership of the journal will find interest in their content.
© 2022 Aylin Sepici Dinçel, published by De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Prefaces
- Education: training tomorrow’s scientists
- From 2008 to 2018: FEBS education activities bringing us to FEBS Izmir workshop 2018 “Molecular life sciences education- training tomorrow’s scientists” (Sept 6-8th, 2018)
- Review Article
- External examiners, supervisors and academicians for the international postgraduate (MSc and PhD) programmes
- Short Communications
- Thinking up an original scientific research project
- Reflections from Ege University Medical School’s clinical internship mentoring program (2011–2018)
- 3D modelling for realistic training and learning
- Technical Notes
- A research and training center model – the Weizmann Institute of Science
- Multidisciplinary case-based small group discussions to integrate basic medical sciences with clinical situations
- Letter to the Editor
- MEFANET – a tool for sharing educational materials among Czech and Slovak medical faculties
- Research Articles
- Virtual laboratories as a tool to support learning
- The perspectives of young general practitioners/family physicians on MOOC as part of continuous education: a descriptive semi-qualitative multinational study
- Evaluation of midwifery students’ learning approaches to the compulsory biochemistry course
- Next generation medical education from the student’s perspective
- Evaluation of the clinical self-efficacy of postgraduate midwifery students who took courses related to biochemistry: a cross-sectional study
- There is value in taking the time to teach history of dentistry and ethics in dentistry curriculum
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Prefaces
- Education: training tomorrow’s scientists
- From 2008 to 2018: FEBS education activities bringing us to FEBS Izmir workshop 2018 “Molecular life sciences education- training tomorrow’s scientists” (Sept 6-8th, 2018)
- Review Article
- External examiners, supervisors and academicians for the international postgraduate (MSc and PhD) programmes
- Short Communications
- Thinking up an original scientific research project
- Reflections from Ege University Medical School’s clinical internship mentoring program (2011–2018)
- 3D modelling for realistic training and learning
- Technical Notes
- A research and training center model – the Weizmann Institute of Science
- Multidisciplinary case-based small group discussions to integrate basic medical sciences with clinical situations
- Letter to the Editor
- MEFANET – a tool for sharing educational materials among Czech and Slovak medical faculties
- Research Articles
- Virtual laboratories as a tool to support learning
- The perspectives of young general practitioners/family physicians on MOOC as part of continuous education: a descriptive semi-qualitative multinational study
- Evaluation of midwifery students’ learning approaches to the compulsory biochemistry course
- Next generation medical education from the student’s perspective
- Evaluation of the clinical self-efficacy of postgraduate midwifery students who took courses related to biochemistry: a cross-sectional study
- There is value in taking the time to teach history of dentistry and ethics in dentistry curriculum
