Teaching

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Training persons with schizophrenia in illness self-management: a randomized controlled trial in Japan.

Despite the worldwide shift from inpatient to community-based treatment for individuals with severe mental illness, Japanese psychiatric services remain hospital based. In 1998, Japan had 29 psychiatric beds per 10,000 persons, twice as many as in most ...
Nobuo Anzai, Shusuke Yoneda, Naoki Kumagai, Yukako Nakamura, Emi Ikebuchi, Robert Paul Liberman (Psychiatr Serv, 200205)
training-persons-schizophrenia-illness-self-management-randomized.asp

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The relationship between critical thinking and decision-making in respiratory care students.

INTRODUCTION: Respiratory therapists evaluate the condition of their patients, make decisions about the appropriateness of the treatment plan, provide care, and evaluate the outcomes of their decisions. To practice effectively they must think critically ...
Thomas V Hill (Respir Care, 200205)
relationship-critical-thinking-decision-making-respiratory-care.asp

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Horizontal and vertical integration of academic disciplines in the medical school curriculum.

A rapid expansion of new scientific information and the introduction of new technology in operative and diagnostic medicine has marked the last several decades. Medical educators, because of and parallel to these developments, initiated a search for a ...
Branislav Vidic, Harry M Weitlauf (Clin Anat, 200205)
horizontal-vertical-integration-academic-disciplines-medical-school.asp

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The effectiveness of a Mock Board experience in coaching students for the Dental Hygiene National Board Examination.

A Mock Board is available through the American Dental Association to any student or dental hygiene program as a study aid for the Dental Hygiene National Board Examination (DHNBE). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of this Mock ...
Taline Dadian, Kathy Guerink, Cynthia Olney, John Littlefield (J Dent Educ, 200205)
effectiveness-mock-board-experience-coaching-students-dental-hygiene.asp

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Intimacy training in a forensic psychiatric setting: an experiment.

This article is about intimacy training in two forensic psychiatric hospitals. This training is an experiment in which patients are trained in skills relating to intimacy and sexuality through real physical contact with a therapist. It is a way of ...
Yvonne van den Berg-Lotz, Bram le Grand, Carla Kriek, Thieu Verhagen (Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol, 200204)
intimacy-training-forensic-psychiatric-setting-experiment.asp

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Medical neurobiology: do we teach neurobiology in a format that is relevant to the clinical setting?

During a period of unprecedented growth in technology that allows imaging of the body in elegant detail, anatomy as a discipline has, in some instances, become marginalized. This may be seen in a reduction of time allotted to anatomy, reduction or ...
Duane E Haines, James B Hutchins, James C Lynch (Anat Rec, 200204)
medical-neurobiology-teach-neurobiology-format-relevant-clinical.asp

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Medical students perspective on the teaching of medical statistics in the undergraduate medical curriculum.

Two undergraduate medical students at the University of Bristol commented on their experiences of learning medical statistics. In general, medical students focus is on acquiring skills needed to practice clinical medicine, and great care must be taken to ...
Jeremy Astin, Tom Jenkins, Laurence Moore (Stat Med, 200204)
medical-students-perspective-teaching-medical-statistics.asp

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The new face of gross anatomy.

The nature of anatomy education has changed substantially over the past decade due to both a new generation of students who learn differently from those of past years and the enormity of advances in anatomical imaging and viewing. At Mount Sinai School ...
Joy S Reidenberg, Jeffrey T Laitman (Anat Rec, 200204)
new-face-gross-anatomy.asp

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Teaching hypothesis tests--time for significant change?

Confusion in the teaching of statistical inference dates back to the conflict of Fishers P-values and significance tests with the Neyman-Pearson hypothesis testing approach. To avoid the well-known pitfalls arising from over-reliance on significance ...
Jonathan A C Sterne (Stat Med, 200204)
teaching-hypothesis-tests-time-significant-change.asp

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From college to clinic: reasoning over memorization is key for understanding anatomy.

Anatomy and physiology are taught in community colleges, liberal arts colleges, universities, and medical schools. The goals of the students vary, but educators in these diverse settings agree that success hinges on learning concepts rather than ...
Sue Ann Miller, William Perrotti, Dee U Silverthorn, Arthur F Dalley, Kyle E Rarey (Anat Rec, 200204)
college-clinic-reasoning-over-memorization-key-understanding-anatomy.asp