Teaching

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Health literacy education and training: a student-professional collaboration.

A Healthy People 2010 objective is to improve the health literacy of persons with inadequate or marginal literacy skills. We designed a nutrition education module for dietetics students that allowed learning about health literacy while teaching this ...
Nancy Cotugna, Connie E Vickery (J Am Diet Assoc, 200307)
health-literacy-education-training-student-professional-collaboration.asp

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Using standardised students in faculty development workshops to improve clinical teaching skills.

PURPOSE: We describe the use of standardised students (SSs) in interdisciplinary faculty development programmes to improve clinical teaching skills. Standardised students are actual health professions students who are trained to portray a prototypical ...
Mark H Gelula, Rachel Yudkowsky (Med Educ, 200307)
standardised-students-faculty-development-workshops-improve-clinical.asp

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Preceptorship and interpersonal conflict: a multidisciplinary study.

BACKGROUND: The impetus for the study was the concern of teachers about the potentially deleterious effects of conflict in the preceptee-preceptor relationship. Preceptorship, in which students work alongside designated professionals in clinical ...
Cindy Mamchur, Florence Myrick (J Adv Nurs, 200307)
preceptorship-interpersonal-conflict-multidisciplinary-study.asp

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Teaching an engine-driven preparation technique to undergraduates: initial observations.

AIM: This paper describes the initial experiences following the introduction of a rotary engine-driven preparation technique into the undergraduate endodontic programme at the Zurich University Dental Centre. METHODS: Forty third-year students practised ...
S Hänni, K Schönenberger, O A Peters, F Barbakow (Int Endod J, 200307)
teaching-engine-driven-preparation-technique-undergraduates-initial.asp

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Self-directed learning in nurse education: a review of the literature.

RATIONALE: Self-directed learning is essential in assisting nurses to meet the challenges presented in todays health care environment. Nurse educators have an important role to play in assisting nurses to acquire the skills for self-directed learning, ...
Ellen OShea (J Adv Nurs, 200307)
self-directed-learning-nurse-education-review-literature.asp

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Development of teaching and tuition in the specialty of neurology in the Netherlands.

After a short survey of the early history of neurology and psychiatry in the Netherlands, the development of the specialty of neurology is discussed. During the 20th century the training of neurologists and the certification of specialists evolved from ...
A Keyser (Eur J Neurol, 200307)
development-teaching-tuition-specialty-neurology-netherlands.asp

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Blackbirds singing in the dead of night?: Advancing the craft of teaching qualitative research.

Qualitative research education, which is overly concerned with teaching content, can reduce knowledge to the technical-rational domain, and in this process, opportunities for students to be inspired and passionately engaged with the art of qualitative ...
Margaret McAllister, Jennifer Rowe (J Nurs Educ, 200307)
blackbirds-singing-dead-night-advancing-craft-teaching-qualitative.asp

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Transformative professional development of physicians as educators: assessment of a model.

PURPOSE: Medical education reform has been the clarion call of U.S. medical educators and policymakers for two decades. To foster change and seed reform, Harvard Medical School created a professional development program for physicians and scientists ...
Elizabeth G Armstrong, Jennifer Doyle, Nancy L Bennett (Acad Med, 200307)
transformative-professional-development-physicians-educators.asp

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Listening to music: the case for its use in teaching medical humanism.

Listening to music has rarely been used by educators as a tool to teach humanism to medical students and residents. The authors present the argument that music embodies the characteristics of medical humanism (i.e., caring, empathy, human dignity, ...
Glenn C Newell, Douglas J Hanes (Acad Med, 200307)
listening-music-case-teaching-medical-humanism.asp

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Adding a more rigorous scientific agenda to the empirically supported treatment movement.

As the empirically supported treatment (EST) effort has expanded, there are efforts to make the study of ESTs a more integral part of training programs. In its present form, the EST list provides a poor model of how to evaluate treatment and scientific ...
William C Follette, Kendra Beitz (Behav Modif, 200307)
adding-more-rigorous-scientific-agenda-empirically-supported.asp