Teaching

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Training medical students to communicate with a linguistic minority group.

Effective communication is central to a successful physician-patient relationship. Communication is usually enhanced when the linguistic and cultural attributes of patients are incorporated in health care delivery. With this purpose in mind, the Faculty ...
Jeanne Drouin, Christine Rivet (Acad Med, 200306)
training-medical-students-communicate-linguistic-minority-group.asp

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Effect on performance of timely feedback on state writing assessments.

The effect of timely feedback for a state writing assessment on subsequent writing performance was investigated. Also, agreement between teachers scores on assessment and the state departments scores was compared. Eighth grade English teachers (N=8) were ...
Kevin D Crehan, Mary Curfman (Psychol Rep, 200306)
effect-performance-timely-feedback-state-writing-assessments.asp

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Issues in bioethics. Teaching research ethics.

All research should meet the highest ethical and scientific standards, and so persons who may be involved in conducting research should be fully conversant with the relevant ethical principles of biomedical research and its requirements. Further, ...
D E Aarons (West Indian Med J, 200306)
issues-bioethics-teaching-research-ethics.asp

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Structuring information interfaces for procedural learning.

Interface design should be informed by the application of top-down cognitive principles derived from basic theory and research. Cognitive design principles from 2 domains, event cognition and media, were applied to the design of interfaces for teaching ...
Jeffrey M Zacks, Barbara Tversky (J Exp Psychol Appl, 200306)
structuring-information-interfaces-procedural-learning.asp

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Training module to teach ultrasound-guided breast biopsy skills to residents improves accuracy.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness of a training module in teaching residents the skills necessary to perform accurate and safe ultrasound-guided breast biopsies (USGBB). METHODS: Twelve residents with no USGBB experience, but variable ultrasound ...
Mary K Hassard, Lauren I McCurdy, Jackie C A Williams, Donal B Downey (Can Assoc Radiol J, 200306)
training-module-teach-ultrasound-guided-breast-biopsy-skills.asp

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A multimedia patient simulation for teaching and assessing endodontic diagnosis.

Teaching and assessing diagnostic skills are difficult due to relatively small numbers of total clinical experiences and a shortage of clinical faculty. Patient simulations could help teach and assess diagnosis by displaying a well-defined diagnostic ...
John H Littlefield, Elaine L Demps, Karl Keiser, Lipika Chatterjee, Cheng H Yuan, Kenneth M Hargreaves (J Dent Educ, 200306)
multimedia-patient-simulation-teaching-assessing-endodontic-diagnosis.asp

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Interdisciplinary, web-based, self-study, interactive programs in the dental undergraduate program: a pilot.

The goal of this project was to encourage interdisciplinary, integrative health teaching and research in dental education through the development of web-accessible programs, collectively called the "StudyWeb." The specific objective of the project was ...
Howard B Cohen, Stephanie R Walker, Howard C Tenenbaum, Lawrence Spero (J Dent Educ, 200306)
interdisciplinary-web-based-self-study-interactive-programs-dental.asp

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Student use and perceptions of different learning aids in a problem-based learning (PBL) dentistry course.

First-year dental students in a new problem-based learning (PBL) course, the Bachelor of Dentistry (BDent) Program at the University of Sydney, Australia, completed the Study Process Questionnaire and two other questionnaires in this study. The study ...
Tania M Gerzina, Rebecca Worthington, Scott Byrne, Catherine McMahon (J Dent Educ, 200306)
student-perceptions-different-learning-aids-problem-based-learning.asp

89.

Capacity for training in clinical research: status and opportunities.

The ability to base patient care on scientific evidence depends in part on the results of translational and applied research. The shortage of trained clinical researchers identified by several sources limits the availability of clinical research studies ...
Sharon M Gordon, Marc W Heft, Raymond A Dionne, Marjorie K Jeffcoat, Michael C Alfano, Richard W Valachovic, James A Lipton (J Dent Educ, 200306)
capacity-training-clinical-research-status-opportunities.asp

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Using role play to develop cultural competence.

Role play is a useful teaching strategy for nursing education. This strategy can simulate patient behaviors, as well as demonstrate nursing interventions that students must learn to be clinically competent. Role play is a dramatic technique that ...
Ruth Shearer, Ruth Davidhizar (J Nurs Educ, 200306)
role-play-develop-cultural-competence.asp