The selection process included an application and in-person interviews at the NIH 3; the previous FICRS&F program started with a mandatory 2-week intensive orientation at the NIH before departure.
In addition, BIOL 106 lectures, assignments, and exams were explicitly connected to authentic content from the introductory biology courses, a strategy inspired by the Lousiana State University's Biology Intensive Orientation for Students (BIOS) Program of Wischusen and Wischusen (2007).
According to Doukas et al. (2009), the eSchoolbag provides learner the opportunities to construct new knowledge and personal experiences from a situated, activity-intensive orientation, making the eSchoolbag-based classroom an ideal place to develop students' twenty-first Century skills.
Beginning with an intensive one-week orientation, Sloan's two-year full-time MBA includes a one semester core.
Most of the fellows have a strong background in "bench science" and learn about development work through an intensive 2-week orientation and the fellowship itself.
About 200 young musicians, actors and dancers recently got an intensive five-day tour during their orientation.
This would then facilitate discussions regarding re-orientation of care from an intensive to a palliative approach occurring, when necessary, in a timely fashion.
The need for decentralization and a technological as well as an organizational new-orientation of information system is increasing because of the increasing distribution of value-added processes via various companies, a faster and more flexible new-orientation of business partnerships, and an intensive integration of customers into value-added processes [5, 6].
(b) Behavioural intervention consisted of an intensive, 24-week, minimal-contact intervention which included an orientation packet and weekly tips, a pedometer, a guide to exercise and a goal-setting.
