Teaching

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Teaching radiology to medical students: an integrated approach.

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: This study assessed medical student satisfaction with radiology lectures integrated into the 3rd-year student internal medicine clerkship, compared with faculty lectures in an independent radiology course, and investigated the ...
Jannette Collins, Susan L Dotti, Mark A Albanese (Acad Radiol, 200209)
teaching-radiology-medical-students-integrated-approach.asp

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Detection thresholds for intensity increments in a single harmonic of synthetic Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) monkey coo calls.

There is evidence that Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) are extremely sensitive to dynamic changes in the relative amplitudes of coo call harmonics during discrimination tests. To verify this evidence using more controlled stimulus configurations, the ...
Colleen G Le Prell, David B Moody (J Comp Psychol, 200209)
detection-thresholds-intensity-increments-single-harmonic-synthetic.asp

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The educational preparation of undergraduate nursing students in pharmacology: perceptions and experiences of lecturers and students.

This paper explores the perceptions and experiences of lecturers and undergraduate nursing students relating to teaching and learning issues in pharmacology. A total of 14 focus group interviews were conducted at 10 university settings, which involved ...
Elizabeth Manias, Shane Bullock (Int J Nurs Stud, 200209)
educational-preparation-undergraduate-nursing-students-pharmacology1.asp

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The use of learning contracts in mental health nursing clinical placement: an action research.

This paper examines the implementation of learning contracts with a cohort of undergraduate nursing students in Hong Kong during a mental health nursing clinical placement. An action learning approach was used by the researchers. Data collection methods ...
Wai-tong Chien, Sally Wai-chi Chan, Jean Morrissey (Int J Nurs Stud, 200209)
learning-contracts-mental-health-nursing-clinical-placement-action.asp

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Modelling the lay expert for first-year medical students: the actor-patient as teacher.

Actors are widely used in medical education as simulated patients. In this session, the role of actors was extended to simulated students and facilitators in an introductory communication session. After an initial activity with the entire cohort of ...
Debra Nestel, Elizabeth Muir, Marilyn Plant, Jane Kidd, Sue Thurlow (Med Teach, 200209)
modelling-lay-expert-first-year-medical-students-actor-patient-teacher.asp

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Students perceptions of relationships between some educational variables in the out-patient setting.

BACKGROUND: Medical education uses the cognitive apprenticeship model of student learning extensively. Students rotate among different hospitals and out- patient clinics where they are exposed to a range of professionally relevant contexts. Here they ...
D H J M Dolmans, H A P Wolfhagen, G G M Essed, A J J A Scherpbier, C P M Van Der Vleuten (Med Educ, 200208)
students-perceptions-relationships-educational-variables-out-patient.asp

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Training teachers--changing practice?

A three-day course was designed to improve the skills of those who provide clinical training to medical students. This long-term follow up of past participants shows a sustained improvement to their skills, especially in terms of involving students in ...
V Hunt, C Bulstrode, P Baldwin, H Bulstrode, C Mansfield (J R Coll Surg Edinb, 200208)
training-teachers-changing-practice.asp

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Canadian coaches perceptions of the 1980 Olympic boycott.

This paper examined Canadian coaches perceptions of the 1980 boycott of the Moscow Olympic Games and effects on their lives and coaching careers, gathered by in-depth telephone interviews with 24 coaches of the Olympic team. Most of the 25 interview ...
Jane Crossman, Ron Lappage (Percept Mot Skills, 200208)
canadian-coaches-perceptions--olympic-boycott.asp

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A clinical teaching guide for psychiatric mental health nursing: a qualitative outcome analysis project.

Limited curriculum enhancement resources are available to psychiatric nurse educators. This article provides a clinical teaching guide for novice instructors teaching an introductory psychiatric nursing course. The investigation is grounded in a ...
S Melrose (J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs, 200208)
clinical-teaching-guide-psychiatric-mental-health-nursing-qualitative.asp

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Anatomy 1999-2000: the curriculum, who teaches it and how?

AIM: To review the impact of Tomorrows Doctors on anatomical teaching in the UK and Ireland. To establish in particular whether a consensus has emerged on: (a) the duration and format of teaching, and (b) the impact on staffing and on the four main ...
D J A Heylings (Med Educ, 200208)
anatomy---curriculum-who-teaches-how.asp