As the need for multicore-aware programmers rises in both science and industry, Computer Science departments in universities around the USA are having to rethink their parallel computing curriculum.
Stage 1 comprises two parallel strands, curriculum development and organizational objectives.
A parallel program at NIEHS, also funded by the Superfund appropriation, supports a national worker training curriculum and has trained 1.4 million hazardous waste workers.
To help schools that don't have a television studio on site, or a course that already teaches production techniques to students, the schools have access to a Web site that has a parallel television production curriculum, explaining specifics like story board production or how to determine a shot list for a commercial.
The Parallel Rural Community Curriculum Model, implemented in several small sites in rural South Australia [ 7, 10], has been adopted as a pedagogical approach and modified as needed for each of the ten learning hubs.
The longitudinal integrated clerkships have been modelled on the Cambridge community-based clinical course in the UK [ 3] and the Parallel Rural Community Curriculum implemented in several sites in rural South Australia [ 4, 5].
Flinders University offers a four year Doctor of Medicine program, in which third year students can select a one year rural community-based LIC known as the Parallel Rural Community Curriculum (PRCC) [ 20].
While the evolution-oriented curriculum parallels the flow of a scientific paper, the course simultaneously educates the students in the skills appropriate to each section.
The third school follows an integrated curriculum with parallel preclinical and clinical training, but does not use PBL and does not run an extensive doctor-patient course during the 1st years of study.
