Teaching

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Evaluating knowledge retention of third-year medical students taught with an innovative pharmacology program.

PURPOSE: To explore the degree of retention of pharmacologic knowledge of third-year medical students taught in a new pharmacology teaching program. METHOD: In 1997, the authors administered a retention test consisting of 100 multiple-choice questions, ...
Rodolfo Rodriguez, Efrain Campos-Sepulveda, Horacio Vidrio, Eusebio Contreras, Fermin Valenzuela (Acad Med, 200206)
evaluating-knowledge-retention-third-year-medical-students-taught.asp

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Success and failure in teaching the [r]-[l] contrast to Japanese adults: tests of a Hebbian model of plasticity and stabilization in spoken language perception.

A Hebbian model of learning predicts that adults may be able to acquire a nonnative speech contrast if they are trained with stimuli that are exaggerated to make them perceptually distinct. To test these ideas, we asked Japanese adults to identify ...
Bruce D McCandliss, Julie A Fiez, Athanassios Protopapas, Mary Conway, James L McClelland (Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci, 200206)
success-failure-teaching-r-l-contrast-japanese-adults-tests-hebbian.asp

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An instructional program to facilitate teaching joint/soft-tissue injection and aspiration.

OBJECTIVE: We developed an instructional program to teach aspiration and injection techniques of the knee and shoulder to medical students and residents. METHODS: Residents and fourth-year medical students participating in a rheumatology elective were ...
Scott A Vogelgesang, Theresa M Karplus, Clarence D Kreiter (J Gen Intern Med, 200206)
instructional-program-facilitate-teaching-joint-soft-tissue-injection.asp

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Stress in doctors and dentists who teach.

OBJECTIVE: To explore the relationship between a teaching role and stress in doctors and dentists who teach. METHODS: Medline, PubMed, BIDS database for social sciences literature, and the ERIC database for educational literature were searched using the ...
Harry Rutter, Joe Herzberg, Elisabeth Paice (Med Educ, 200206)
stress-doctors-dentists-who-teach.asp

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Value of a cognitive simulation in medicine: towards optimizing decision making performance of healthcare personnel.

Medical errors can be reduced or avoided by training in both factual knowledge and in optimal information processing. The latter is of special importance when task settings are complex, when information about a patients condition is ambiguous and ...
U Satish, S Streufert (Qual Saf Health Care, 200206)
value-cognitive-simulation-medicine-towards-optimizing-decision.asp

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Teaching and learning: an update for the orthodontist.

Developments in teaching and learning have implications for every orthodontist. This paper describes some of the theories of teaching and learning that have led to a quiet revolution in higher education. Developments have included the incorporation of ...
S M Chadwick, D R Bearn (J Orthod, 200206)
teaching-learning-update-orthodontist.asp

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What influences peer-led sex education in the classroom? A view from the peer educators.

This paper is the second of two presenting data gathered from peer educators in the RIPPLE study-a randomized controlled trial of peer-led sex education in English secondary schools. Peer educators were recruited from Year 12 students (aged 16/17 years) ...
Vicki Strange, Simon Forrest, Ann Oakley, (Health Educ Res, 200206)
influences-peer-led-sex-education-classroom-view-peer-educators.asp

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Exercise, fitness, and subjective measures related to fitness of physical education and other teachers.

The purpose of the present study was to examine the differences between physical and nonphysical education teachers in exercise, perceived and actual fitness, self-rated health, and attitudes toward aging. Participants were 307 women, 144 physical ...
Yael Netz, Shulamith Raviv (Percept Mot Skills, 200206)
exercise-fitness-subjective-measures-related-fitness-physical.asp

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A simple plan--faculty compensation in an academic department of emergency medicine.

An equitable and effective compensation system is essential to the smooth and productive operation of any academic department. While academic departments of emergency medicine must meet clinical, teaching, research, and administrative missions, they are ...
David A Guss (Acad Emerg Med, 200206)
simple-plan-faculty-compensation-academic-department-emergency.asp

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Mentoring future dental educators through an apprentice teaching experience.

To address concerns about the growing shortage of dental educators, the UCLA School of Dentistry initiated an elective course to introduce fourth-year students to issues in academic dentistry and to provide an apprentice teaching experience. Participants ...
Carol A Bibb, Karen H Lefever (J Dent Educ, 200206)
mentoring-future-dental-educators-apprentice-teaching-experience.asp