Education, Distance

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Videoconferencing for practice-based small-group continuing medical education: feasibility, acceptability, effectiveness, and cost.

INTRODUCTION: Small-group, practice-based learning is an effective and well-accepted method of continuing medical education (CME). However, one limitation is that many physicians work in communities with fewer than the minimum number recommended for an ...
Michael Allen, Joan Sargeant, Karen Mann, Michael Fleming, John Premi (J Contin Educ Health Prof, 2003WINTER)
videoconferencing-practice-based-small-group-continuing-medical.asp

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AHEC in West Virginia: a case study. Area health education centers.

This case study describes the area health education centers (AHEC) program in West Virginia, spanning 30 years from a first-generation project at Charleston in 1972 (AHEC 1) to a newly funded statewide program (AHEC 2). The outcome is an evolving ...
Lamont D Nottingham, Michael J Lewis (J Rural Health, 2003WINTER)
ahec-west-virginia-case-study-area-health-education-centers.asp

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Participant satisfaction in an adult telehealth education program using interactive compressed video delivery methods in rural Arkansas.

CONTEXT: Rural Americans have less access than their urban counterparts to health promotion information. PURPOSE: To assess differences in program satisfaction associated with age, gender, ethnicity, community size, and education among participants in an ...
Ann B Bynum, Charles O Cranford, Cathy A Irwin, George S Denny (J Rural Health, 2003SUMMER)
participant-satisfaction-adult-telehealth-education-program.asp

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The success of emergency telemedicine at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

The Telemedicine Program at the State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Medicine, and the Erie County Medical Center (UB/ECMC) represents a "quiet success story" for telemedicine development. Though a relatively young program starting in 1992, ...
David G Ellis, James Mayrose (Telemed J E Health, 2003SPRING)
success-emergency-telemedicine-state-university-new-york-buffalo.asp

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A building an education infrastructure for allied health.

This article discusses the emerging education information infrastructure. It uses a five-part framework (aggregating, organizing, using, tool building, and policy making) to describe this infrastructure, then uses the same framework to argue for a ...
R David Lankes, Hugh W Bonner (J Allied Health, 2003SPRING)
building-education-infrastructure-allied-health.asp

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A preliminary study to investigate the potential of plasma screen technology in small group teaching for dental undergraduates.

AIM: This preliminary study was devised to ascertain whether students considered that they had an adequate view of demonstrated procedures, while observing these directly at the workbench, or indirectly on a remote plasma screen. In addition, this study ...
Mark E Packer, Trevor J Coward, Roderick Wakeley, Michael R Fenlon (Eur J Dent Educ, 200308)
preliminary-study-investigate-potential-plasma-screen-technology.asp

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Teaching oral surgery to undergraduate students: a pilot study using a Web-based practical course.

The Internet has been used in oral surgery teaching mainly to deliver learning material across the World Wide Web and to make use of online interactivity resources in everyday surgical practice, such as by e-mails, discussion groups, and chats. The aim ...
Luciana Corrêa, Antonio Carlos de Campos, Suzana C O M Souza, Moacyr Domingos Novelli (Eur J Dent Educ, 200308)
teaching-oral-surgery-undergraduate-students-pilot-study-web-based.asp

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Professionalization in a distance learning setting.

Distance learning is becoming an acceptable mode of nursing education. Several schools of nursing offer instruction through telecommunications. This new form of education is different from the traditional lecture format. Many nursing students can ...
Karen A Faison (ABNF J, 200307-08)
professionalization-distance-learning-setting.asp

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Developing a postbasic gerontology program for international learners: considerations for the process.

BACKGROUND: A private university in Chile was seeking opportunities to acquire expertise in developing distance education programs using new media technology, especially in health-related fields. An initiative was undertaken to develop a distance ...
Christine M Bolan (J Contin Educ Nurs, 200307-08)
developing-postbasic-gerontology-program-international-learners.asp

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Charting a course for your future: a directory of clinical nurse specialist programs in the United States.

Interest in clinical nurse specialist (CNS) programs is increasing rapidly, and schools of nursing are responding to the demand by expanding existing programs and opening new programs. In 2000, the Education Committee of the National Association of ...
Peggy Gerard, Jane Walker (Clin Nurse Spec, 200307)
charting-course-your-future-directory-clinical-nurse-specialist.asp