Hollywood's most famous writing teacher (Brian Cox played McKee in Spike Jonze's cult film, Adaptation") answers some questions: Indian cinema has a very unique form, how does the story seminar work for professionals, who tell stories in such a different manner from the Western world?
So says Donna Dean, the senior adviser to NIH's acting director who hosted a grants seminar, "Working on Preparing a Competitive Grant Proposal," at the annual Howard Hughes Medical Institute's fellows' meeting on 25-27 September in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Up until this layoff my coaching, seminar work, and writing had always been part time.
Meeting in the Ruane Center for the Humanities, a lecture hall specifically built in 2013 for the program, the class meets three days a week, with one day being typically reserved for seminar work and/or exams.
The curriculum in the seventh semester for family medicine consists of lectures, seminar work and individual student assignments.
Regarding the overall pasantía, pasantes appeared to appreciate the following: gaining clinical knowledge and confidence, developing relationships with their patients over time, seeing their patients improve, having resident and supervisor accompaniment, attending the monthly global health seminar, working on quality improvement projects, and exploring a new area of Mexico.
Greater use is now being made of seminars, working parties, discussions, and other group activities that require a higher level of individual participation.
Seminars work best in small groups and are more often found at graduate level or the last year of undergraduate programmes (Bates, 2015).
There were plenty of chances to share my results through many seminars, work discussions in both large and small groups, and one-to-one discussions with colleagues and my supervisor.
