Teaching

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Evaluation of a faculty development program in managing care.

PURPOSE. To evaluate a faculty development program that teaches quality improvement and cost-effectiveness. METHOD. From October 2000 to February 2001, a two-part faculty development program was offered to 39 physicians from 19 U.S. medical schools ...
Antoinette S Peters, Maryjoan D Ladden, Jamie B Kotch, Robert H Fletcher (Acad Med, 200211)
evaluation-faculty-development-program-managing-care.asp

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Clerkship directors perceptions of the effects of managed care on medical students education.

PURPOSE: Little is known about the effect of managed care on medical students education. Because clerkship directors (CDs) are especially well positioned to observe any changes, this study surveyed CDs from six medical specialties about their perceptions ...
Amy C Brodkey, Frederick S Sierles, Ilyse L Spertus, Cindy L Weiner, Fredrick A McCurdy (Acad Med, 200211)
clerkship-directors-perceptions-effects-managed-care-medical-students.asp

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An evaluation of clinical mock boards and their influence on the success rate on qualifying boards.

An important responsibility of each dental school to its graduating dental students is exposure to and evaluation on a mock board that simulates one or more of the examinations given by its respective regional testing agencies. An introduction to the ...
Stephen A Jessee (J Dent Educ, 200211)
evaluation-clinical-mock-boards-influence-success-rate-qualifying.asp

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Professionalism and the teaching of clinical medicine: perspectives of teachers and students.

Principles of medical professionalism include humanistic values, altruism, ethical and moral behavior, and a lifelong commitment to scholarship and learning. These principles can provide behavioral guidelines to residents, fellows and their ...
David M Nierman (Mt Sinai J Med, 200211)
professionalism-teaching-clinical-medicine-perspectives-teachers.asp

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Training doctors for professionalism: some lessons from teaching clinical medical ethics.

Medical professionalism encourages physicians to place their patients interests above self-interest. In recent years, many medical organizations, including the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), ...
Mark Siegler (Mt Sinai J Med, 200211)
training-doctors-professionalism-lessons-teaching-clinical-medical.asp

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Estimating the covariance function with functional data.

This paper describes a two-step procedure for estimating the covariance function and its eigenvalues and eigenfunctions in situations where the data are curves or functions. The first step produces initial estimates of eigenfunctions using a standard ...
Sik-Yum Lee, Wenyang Zhang, Xin-Yuan Song (Br J Math Stat Psychol, 200211)
estimating-covariance-function-functional-data.asp

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Comparison, basic-level categories, and the teaching of adjectives.

We tested 24 caregivers of preschool children to determine whether their strategies for teaching novel adjectives are consistent with childrens demonstrated abilities to learn these words (e.g., Waxman & Klibanoff, 2000). On each of four trials, ...
Katherine Manders, D Geoffrey Hall (J Child Lang, 200211)
comparison-basic-level-categories-teaching-adjectives.asp

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Integrating patient teaching into bedside patient care: a participant-observation study of hospital nurses.

Todays patients are quickly discharged from hospitals and often continue complex treatments at home. Patient teaching is critical and hospital nurses are encouraged to use "every teachable moment." This study explored and described the nature of ...
Elaine D Barber-Parker (Patient Educ Couns, 200210-11)
integrating-patient-teaching-bedside-patient-care-participant.asp

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Generate and test: an alternative route to knowledge elicitation in an implicit learning task.

Three experiments are reported, which examine generation of knowledge in the McGeorge and Burton (1990) invariant learning task. In this task, participants are exposed to 30 four-digit numbers containing an invariant "3". Following this participants then ...
Vyv Huddy, A Mike Burton (Q J Exp Psychol A, 200210)
generate-test-alternative-route-knowledge-elicitation-implicit.asp

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Teaching of veterinary parasitology: the Italian perspective.

The curriculum in veterinary medicine in Italy is undergoing important changes, as in the rest of Europe. The 2001 fall semester will mark the beginning of a new format for the degree in veterinary medicine and these changes will obviously affect the ...
L Kramer, C Genchi (Vet Parasitol, 200210)
teaching-veterinary-parasitology-italian-perspective.asp