Teaching

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Early introduction of clinical skills teaching in a medical curriculum--factors affecting students learning.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effects of the early introduction of clinical skills teaching on students learning following an overhaul of the curriculum of a traditional Asian medical school. METHODS: Randomly selected medical students in Year I and II were ...
T P Lam, M Irwin, L W C Chow, P Chan (Med Educ, 200203)
early-introduction-clinical-skills-teaching-medical-curriculum.asp

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Teaching gross anatomy using living tissue.

Embalmed cadaver tissues and organs that are dissected in gross anatomy laboratories lack many characteristics of fresh or living tissues. The purpose of this study was to assess the educational value of allowing first-year medical students to experience ...
D S Hubbell, J J Dwornik, S E Alway, R Eliason, R E Norenberg (Clin Anat, 200203)
teaching-gross-anatomy-living-tissue.asp

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Use of critical interactive thinking exercises in teaching reproductive physiology to undergraduate students.

In higher education, increasing emphasis is being placed on the use of new technologies in the classroom. However, the emphasis needs to be placed on methods that truly enhance understanding and knowledge retention. Class discussions help students ...
M W Peters, M F Smith, G W Smith (J Anim Sci, 200203)
critical-interactive-thinking-exercises-teaching-reproductive.asp

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More than meets the eye: how examiner training affects the reliability of the MacNeill-Lichtenberg decision tree in geriatric rehabilitation patients.

OBJECTIVE: To examine the effect of examiner training on the test-retest reliability of the MacNeill-Lichtenberg Decision Tree (MLDT), a tool for guiding clinicians decision making for referrals for mental health problems. DESIGN: Correlational analyses ...
Adam L Bank, Susan E Macneill, Elizabeth M Hall, Richard K Nadjarian, Ann V Zaccagnini, Peter A Lichtenberg (Arch Phys Med Rehabil, 200203)
more-meets-eye-examiner-training-affects-reliability-macneill.asp

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Group for research in pathology education online resources to facilitate pathology instruction.

BACKGROUND: The Group for Research in Pathology Education (GRIPE) is an organization of pathology educators whose purpose is to promote and facilitate excellence in pathology education. One important function of GRIPE is the maintenance of image and ...
Kristopher N Jones, Regina Kreisle, Roger W Geiss, John H Holliman, Patsy H Lill, Peter G Anderson (Arch Pathol Lab Med, 200203)
group-research-pathology-education-online-resources-facilitate.asp

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More than words? The status and impact of smoking policies in Scottish schools.

The aim of this study was to investigate the current status of smoking policies in Scottish schools, and the relationship between policy status, enforcement of smoking restrictions and perceptions of smoking behaviour among pupils and teachers. A ...
Dawn Griesbach, Jo Inchley, Candace Currie (Health Promot Int, 200203)
more-words-status-impact-smoking-policies-scottish-schools.asp

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Training primary care physicians in community eye health. Experiences from India.

This paper describes the impact of training on primary-care physicians in community eye health through a series of workshops. 865 trainees completed three evaluation formats anonymously. The questions tested knowledge on magnitude of blindness, the most ...
Sanjeev K Gupta, Gudlavalleti V S Murthy, Vijay K Dada, Lalit Sanga, Neena John (Indian J Ophthalmol, 200203)
training-primary-care-physicians-community-eye-health-experiences.asp

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Implicit motor learning through observational training in adults and children.

Although evidence of implicit motor learning on the basis of observation alone has been reported, there is some data to suggest that the phenomenon could be contaminated by the intentional exploitation of explicit knowledge. In the present experiment, a ...
Annie Vinter, Pierre Perruchet (Mem Cognit, 200203)
implicit-motor-learning-observational-training-adults-children.asp

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The clinical skills laboratory: a cost-effective venue for teaching clinical skills to third-year medical students.

The authors taught clinical examination and procedural skills using manikins in a clinical skills laboratory as a part of an integrated curriculum in the third-year clerk-ship. This teaching modality was effective and well received by students and ...
Jingming Hao, John Estrada, Susanne Tropez-Sims (Acad Med, 200202)
clinical-skills-laboratory-cost-effective-venue-teaching-clinical.asp

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Validation of a global measure of facultys clinical teaching performance.

PURPOSE: To validate the University of Michigan Global Rating Scale (GRS), a single-item, five-point global measure of faculty members clinical teaching performances previously shown to be reliable. METHOD: In June 1998, 98 senior medical residents (98% ...
Brent C Williams, Debra K Litzelman, Stewart F Babbott, Robert M Lubitz, Tim P Hofer (Acad Med, 200202)
validation-global-measure-faculty-s-clinical-teaching-performance.asp