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Source-monitoring training facilitates preschoolers eyewitness memory performance.

Preschool children are more susceptible to misleading postevent information than are older children and adults. One reason for young childrens suggestibility is their failure to monitor the source of their memories, as in, for example, discriminating ...
Karen L Thierry, Melanie J Spence (Dev Psychol, 200205)
source-monitoring-training-facilitates-preschoolers-eyewitness-memory.asp

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National Academy of Neuropsychology/Division 40 of the American Psychological Association practice survey of clinical neuropsychology in the United States, Part I: practitioner and practice characteristics, professional activities, and time requirements.

Leaders of the National Academy of Neuropsychology and Division 40 (Clinical Neuropsychology) of the American Psychological Association determined that current information on the professional practice of clinical neuropsychology within the United States ...
Jerry J Sweet, Edward A Peck, Carolyn Abramowitz, Sharon Etzweiler (Clin Neuropsychol, 200205)
national-academy-neuropsychology-division-american-psychological.asp

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Trials of teaching methods in basic life support (3): comparison of simulated CPR performance after first training and at 6 months, with a note on the value of re-training.

A randomised controlled trial comparing staged teaching of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) with conventional training provided the additional opportunity to investigate skill acquisition and retention in those attending conventional CPR classes. All ...
Douglas Chamberlain, Anna Smith, Malcolm Woollard, Michael Colquhoun, Anthony J Handley, Steve Leaves, Karl B Kern (Resuscitation, 200205)
trials-teaching-methods-basic-life-support--comparison-simulated-cpr.asp

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Teaching medical communication skills: a call for greater uniformity.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Evidence suggests that strategies used in teaching communication skills vary widely among, and within, medical education programs. Such variance also exists in the amount of emphasis placed on specific communication skills. ...
David Buyck, Forrest Lang (Fam Med, 200205)
teaching-medical-communication-skills-call-greater-uniformity.asp

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Impact of teaching interventions on nurse compliance with hand disinfection.

The impact of teaching interventions and the availability of additional dispensers for alcoholic hand disinfection was measured during three study periods. A nursing care system of relevant nursing interventions was found to be a useful tool for the ...
C Colombo, H Giger, J Grote, C Deplazes, W Pletscher, R Lüthi, C Ruef (J Hosp Infect, 200205)
impact-teaching-interventions-nurse-compliance-hand-disinfection.asp

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Teaching the teachers: helping faculty in a family practice residency improve their informatics skills.

Faculty members in family practice residencies are increasingly being asked to help residents develop skills in the use of informatics and evidence-based medicine (EBM). In order to do this successfully the teachers themselves must be skilled in the use ...
Cynthia A Cartwright, Neil Korsen, Lynn E Urbach (Acad Med, 200205)
teaching-teachers-helping-faculty-family-practice-residency-improve.asp

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Improving teenagers knowledge of emergency contraception: cluster randomised controlled trial of a teacher led intervention.

OBJECTIVE: To assess the effectiveness of a teacher led intervention to improve teenagers knowledge about emergency contraception. DESIGN: Cluster randomised controlled trial. SETTING: 24 mixed sex, state secondary schools in Avon, south west England. ...
Anna Graham, Laurence Moore, Deborah Sharp, Ian Diamond (BMJ, 200205)
improving-teenagers-knowledge-emergency-contraception-cluster.asp

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How best to evaluate clinician-educators and teachers for promotion?

The challenge of how best to evaluate educational scholars (and specifically, clinician-educators) and teachers for promotion continues to confront academia. While the work of educational scholars and teachers often overlaps, the terms for justifying ...
Thomas H Glick (Acad Med, 200205)
best-evaluate-clinician-educators-teachers-promotion.asp

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Education and training of complementary therapists: the role of higher education.

This paper is intended to inform the reader of key issues relating to education and training of complementary therapists. It discusses the role of higher education in the training of complementary therapists in light of changing policy and patterns of ...
Pauline Stuttard (Complement Ther Nurs Midwifery, 200205)
education-training-complementary-therapists-role-higher-education.asp

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Developing the teaching instinct, 1: feedback.

The first in a new series of short educational programmes covering a range of important topics in medical education. Each programme defines the topic, provides some background information, presents some practical tips, gives some theoretical underpinning ...
E A Hesketh, J M Laidlaw (Med Teach, 200205)
developing-teaching-instinct--feedback.asp