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A new program to reward and retain volunteer clinical faculty at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

BACKGROUND AND PROBLEM: Volunteer clinical faculty (VCF) are vital to the educational mission of medical schools. At the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), VCF are increasingly relied upon to meet clinical training needs in medical student and resident ...
Jeffrey A Morzinski, Charlene Gaebler-Uhing, Ruric C Anderson (WMJ, 2003)
new-program-reward-retain-volunteer-clinical-faculty-medical-college.asp

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University of Wyoming, College of Engineering, undergraduate design project: star tracer.

The University of Wyoming received funding in the spring of 2002 from the National Science Foundation Division of Bioengineering and Environmental Systems in order to complete undergraduate design projects. One design project that was chosen by the ...
Jennifer R Barnes, Stephanie A Popp, Steven F Barrett (Biomed Sci Instrum, 2003)
university-wyoming-college-engineering-undergraduate-design-project.asp

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Practice makes perfect: the critical role of mixed practice in the acquisition of ECG interpretation skills.

PURPOSE: To examine the effect of instructional format on medical students learning of ECG diagnosis. METHOD: Two experiments employed different learning and practice methods. In the first, students were randomly allocated to one of two instructional ...
Rose M Hatala, Lee R Brooks, Geoffrey R Norman (Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract, 2003)
practice-makes-perfect-critical-role-mixed-practice-acquisition-ecg.asp

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Electronic doors to education: study of high school website accessibility in Iowa.

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and Sections 504 and 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, prohibit discrimination against people with disabilities in all aspects of daily life, including education, work, and access to places of public ...
David Klein, William Myhill, Linda Hansen, Gary Asby, Susan Michaelson, Peter Blanck (Behav Sci Law, 2003)
electronic-doors-education-study-high-school-website-accessibility.asp

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Bridge to dentistry: one dental schools approach to improving its enrollment of underrepresented minorities.

Presently, 25.7% of the U.S. population is comprised of Blacks/African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans. The dental school enrollment of underrepresented minorities (URM) does not reflect this demographic distribution. In 1994, URM students ...
Ernestine S Brooks, Tamara C Gravely, Sheryl A Hornback, La Chelle P Cunningham, Ann L McCann, Jack L Long (J Am Coll Dent, 2002WINTER)
bridge-dentistry-one-dental-school-s-approach-improving-enrollment.asp

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Effects of strategic versus tactical instructions on adaptation to changing contingencies in children with adhd.

This study examined the effects of two types of instructions on the academic responding of 4 children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Tactical instructions specified how to distribute responding between two concurrently available sets of ...
David E Bicard, Nancy A Neef (J Appl Behav Anal, 2002WINTER)
effects-strategic-versus-tactical-instructions-adaptation-changing.asp

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Effects of mand-tact versus tact-only training on the acquisition of tacts.

We sought to replicate and extend Carroll and Hesses (1987) study of the acquisition of tacts by including participants with and without developmental disabilities. As in Carroll and Hesse, the present results showed that mand-tact training, rather than ...
Erik Arntzen, Inger Karin Almås (J Appl Behav Anal, 2002WINTER)
effects-mand-tact-versus-tact-only-training-acquisition-tacts.asp

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A comparison of physical therapy students with and without instructions in ultrasound pressure application.

The purpose of this study was to determine whether providing physical therapy (PT) students with instructions in proper ultrasound (US) pressure application would result in more optimal pressures compared with pressures obtained by students who were not ...
Nancy Gann, Christine Rogers, Aaron Dudley (J Allied Health, 2002SUMMER)
comparison-physical-therapy-students-instructions-ultrasound-pressure.asp

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The trainee project: family-aided vocational rehabilitation of young people with schizophrenia.

This study explored the initial results of a family-aided vocational rehabilitation program for young people with schizophrenia in The Netherlands. Their parents act as job-finders" and traineeship providers. The traineeships obtained for the ...
Erna Gaal, Jaap van Weeghel, Marjon van Campen, Don Linszen (Psychiatr Rehabil J, 2002SUMMER)
trainee-project-family-aided-vocational-rehabilitation-young-people.asp

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Developments in the instruction of biostatistics at the Kuwait University Health Science Centre in a decade.

BACKGROUND: Kuwait has witnessed many changes that influenced, among other things, the structure of medical education including biostatistics. This article describes the developments in biostatistics instruction and curriculum in the Health Science ...
Mohamed A A Moussa (Teach Learn Med, 2002SUMMER)
developments-instruction-biostatistics-kuwait-university-health.asp