Teaching

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Teaching of occupational medicine to undergraduates in UK schools of medicine.

OBJECTIVES: To assess any recent change in the commitment to teaching of occupational medicine in UK undergraduate medical curricula. DESIGN: A questionnaire survey of the teaching of occupational medicine to undergraduates in all medical schools listed ...
P A Wynn, Tar-Ching Aw, Nerys R Williams, Malcolm Harrington (Med Educ, 200208)
teaching-occupational-medicine-undergraduates-uk-schools-medicine.asp

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Psychiatric nursing recruitment. Roles for educators and nursing staff.

Recruiting new nurses to a relatively unpopular specialty in the midst of a nursing shortage is challenging. However, the literature offers educators and clinical nursing staff important insight regarding the promotion of student interest in psychiatric ...
Anne Durkin (J Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv, 200208)
psychiatric-nursing-recruitment-roles-educators-nursing-staff.asp

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Introducing integrative East-West medicine to medical students and residents.

Over the last several years, many medical schools and residencies have introduced complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) into their curricula, prompting a discussion as to how CAM should be taught. In this paper, we share our experiences teaching ...
Ka-Kit Hui, Lidia Zylowska, Edward K Hui, Jun Liang Yu, Jie Jia Li (J Altern Complement Med, 200208)
introducing-integrative-east-west-medicine-medical-students-residents.asp

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Reflective journal writing: how it promotes reflective thinking in clinical nursing education: a students perspective.

According to the outcomes-based education and training system of education (OBET) in the country and the South African Nursing Council, education should focus on "creating" reflective learners and practitioners. This article seeks to determine the ...
J Kok, M M Chabeli (Curationis, 200208)
reflective-journal-writing-promotes-reflective-thinking-clinical.asp

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Supporting families: how are nursing students being prepared for this developing role across Scotland.

Increasing emphasis on primary care has led to a reappraisal of the scope and importance of nursing work with families. The purpose of this study was to explore the knowledge base of lecturers in Scotland that underpinned instruction of student nurses in ...
Dorothee J H OSullivan Burchard, Dorothy A Whyte, Kate Jackson (Nurse Educ Today, 200208)
supporting-families-nursing-students-prepared-developing-role-across.asp

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A comparison between elemental and compound training of cues in retrospective revaluation.

Associative learning theories assume that cue interaction and, specifically, retrospective revaluation occur only when the target cue is previously trained in compound with the to-be-revalued cue. However, there are recent demonstrations of retrospective ...
Martha Escobar, Oskar Pineño, Helena Matute (Anim Learn Behav, 200208)
comparison-elemental-compound-training-cues-retrospective-revaluation.asp

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Assisting medical students to conduct empathic conversations with patients from a sexual medicine clinic.

OBJECTIVE: To describe an exercise, the structure and content of which assists medical students to conduct potentially embarrassing conversations concerning sexual health which require expression of empathy, to integrate previous learning, to identify ...
P Henderson, M H Johnson (Sex Transm Infect, 200208)
assisting-medical-students-conduct-empathic-conversations-patients.asp

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What do medicine clerkship preceptors do best?

PURPOSE: Students ratings of preceptors are widely used in medical education for feedback and evaluation purposes. The present study investigated students ratings of the clinical teaching skills of inpatient attending physicians, inpatient residents, and ...
Kathleen M Mazor, Sarah L Stone, Michele Carlin, Eric Alper (Acad Med, 200208)
medicine-clerkship-preceptors-best.asp

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Pre-registration nurse education in pharmacology: is it adequate for the roles that nurses are expected to fulfil?

Nurse education has undergone many changes over the last 30 years in line with the changing expectations of the nurses role. A review of the literature suggests that nurses are inadequately prepared for their role in medication administration. With the ...
Sally Morrison-Griffiths, Michael A Snowden, Munir Pirmohamed (Nurse Educ Today, 200208)
pre-registration-nurse-education-pharmacology-adequate-roles-nurses.asp

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Teaching adolescent medicine in the office setting.

Despite recent educational improvements in adolescent medicine, challenges remain. Residents in pediatrics are required to have a 1-month block rotation in adolescent medicine, and residents in family medicine and internal medicine are strongly ...
Terrill Bravender (Curr Opin Pediatr, 200208)
teaching-adolescent-medicine-office-setting.asp