Aim and objectives.  This study presents the findings of a qualitative study exploring the experiences of undergraduate nursing students imagining the possibility of their own death during a workshop on life-and-death issues. Background.  Didactic instruction in end-of-life care is a critical element of nursing education and for most health professions ...

The concept of peer mentorship can be applied to a variety of populations. In this article, literature will be reviewed discussing the principles of mentorship and how they have been applied to persons living with aphasia through the development and implementation of an Aphasia Mentorship Program. The protocol of this ...

Science students leaving undergraduate programs are entering the biotechnology industry where they are presented with issues which require integration of science content. Students find this difficult as through-out their studies, most content is limited to a single subdiscipline (e.g., biochemistry, immunology). In addition, students need knowledge of the ethical, economic, ...

Lamina, S. Comparative effect of interval and continuous training programs on serum uric acid in management of hypertension: a randomized controlled trial. J Strength Cond Res 25(3): 719-726, 2011-The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of interval and continuous training program on blood pressure and serum uric ...

It is hoped that this information will encourage rehabilitation therapists learning to prescribe ultralight rigid frame to set aside some of the "rules" they have been taught in school and take a more practical approach that emphasizes a need to understand the person, their problems, and priorities, then match those ...

Patient safety, including the safe adminsitration of medications, is an essential component of nursing practice. However, helping students calculate medication dosages has continually challenged faculty members and students. The authors describe a comprehensive approach to teaching and evaluating dosage calculation. Common barriers to helping students master necessary math skills required ...

This study investigated, from a gender perspective, perceptions concerning the word "hymen" among students in a Swedish senior high school. Students answered an open-ended question: What do you think about when you hear the word hymen? The answers were analyzed by using content analysis. In total, 198 students, aged 17 ...

Background Civil and political participation lies at the core of citizenship. Increasingly, people with intellectual disability are members of disability advisory bodies. This study investigated the political orientations of advisory body members with intellectual disability, their participatory experiences, and the types of support they received. Method The 9 people with intellectual disability ...

Scand J Caring Sci; 2011 Children's experiences of a drama programme in social and emotional learning The aim of the school-based drama programme was to enhance child social and emotional learning. The programme was implemented by class teachers or teacher-school nurse dyads among fourth and fifth graders (10-12 years old) during ...

This study assessed the cost-effectiveness and health-care budget impact of sacral neuromodulation (SNM) in refractory idiopathic OAB-wet patients in Spain. A 10-year Markov analytic model was developed to estimate quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) gained and incontinence episode avoided associated with SNM therapy compared with botulinum neurotoxin A (BoNT-A) or continued optimized ...

Aims: A recent trial demonstrated that a brief guided self-help intervention reduces anxiety in palliative patients. This study investigated whether training palliative nurses to deliver a guided self-help intervention would improve their routine management of psychological distress. Design: A randomized controlled cluster trial compared a team of nurses who attended ...

The support of doctors who teach medical students in clinical settings is considered very important. In order to function as effectively as possible in their role as clinical teachers, these clinicians require educational support from faculty members. The most usual form that support takes is university staff offering face-to-face teaching ...

In this reflection I discuss my first engagement with the educational audit process. Audit of the environment is a crucial element in the education of student midwives; educational audit is complex as placement areas are dynamic, fast-changing environments. It is important for all involved parties to recognise that the quality ...

Medical Education 2011: 45: 280-288 Context  Real-patient contacts in problem-based undergraduate medical education are promoted as a good way to introduce biomedical and (in)formal clinical knowledge early in the curriculum and thereby to foster the development of coherent and integrated knowledge networks. There are concerns, however, that such contacts may ...

In a longitudinal intervention study, the effects of three intervention strategies on the reading skills of children with reading disabilities in Grade 2 were analyzed. The interventions consisted of computerized training programs: One bottom-up intervention aimed at improving word decoding skills and phonological abilities, the second intervention focused on top-down ...

Objective To analyze the health policies related to physician assistants (PAs) and to understand the factors influencing this medical work force movement. Quality of evidence This work combines a review of the literature and qualitative information, and it serves as a historical bookmark. The approach was selected when attempts to ...

Apel, JM, Lacy, RM, and Kell, RT. A comparison of traditional and weekly undulating periodized strength training programs with total volume and intensity equated. J Strength Cond Res 25(3): 694-703, 2011-The purpose of this study was to compare the training adaptations attained during 12 weeks of traditional (TD) and weekly ...

Biochemistry is a challenging subject because student learning depends on the application of previously learned concepts from general chemistry and biology to new, biological contexts. This article describes the development of a multiple-choice instrument intended to measure five concepts from general chemistry and three from biology that are considered prerequisite ...

Abstract Purpose . Assess whether an insurer-provided Web-based wellness program results in cost and utilization improvements. Design . Quasi-experimental, pre-post, treatment-comparison design. Variables of interest were participation rates; medical, professional, and pharmacy expenditures; inpatient admissions; emergency room visits; and preventive service utilization. Setting . Six hundred forty-three employer-based wellness programs ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of 2 different intervention training regimes on VO2max, VO2max velocity (vVO2max), running economy (RE), lactic threshold velocity (vLT), and running performance on a group of well-trained male middle-distance runners in the precompetition period. Twenty-six well-trained male middle-distance runners took part ...

Background:  We ran a peer-assisted learning programme for teaching clinical examination amongst graduate-entry medical students. We had three objectives: (1) to provide a forum for using peer-assisted learning to deliver the medical schools' clinical examination curriculum using the techniques of deliberate practice; (2) to obtain feedback on the programme using ...

As a peer-assisted learning process, minilectures on physiology were conducted by students. During this process, students lecture to their colleagues in the presence of faculty staff members. These lectures were evaluated by faculty staff and students simultaneously. The aim of this study was to compare feedback from faculty members and ...

Hospice organizations are adopting quality measurement and quality improvement (QI) practices to comply with the Medicare Conditions of Participation effective January 31, 2009. However, little is known about organizational best practices or specific needs during implementation. This study identified and described the barriers and facilitators to QI implementation in hospice. ...

In Canada, school meals are regarded as important for social, educational, and nutritional reasons and have been provided for several years because of concerns about the health and welfare of children, especially those from low-income households. They are generally offered as local community organization and individual schools, are not regulated ...

The need for a revised curriculum within the life sciences has been well-established. One strategy to improve student preparation in the life sciences is to redesign introductory courses like biology, chemistry, and physics so that they better reflect their disciplinary interdependence. We describe a medically relevant, context-based approach to teaching ...

The objectives of this study were two-fold. Firstly, we aimed to model 'typologies' of student examination performance by grouping students into like categories based on measures of prior academic achievement (particularly in the science subjects) and interview rating at time of entry to a medical degree course, and outcome measures ...

Workplace-based assessment (WBPA) was introduced in 2007 as a new approach to monitoring competence of GP specialist trainees (GPSTs). It includes a raft of assessments carried out in the workplace to assess what a trainee actually does in clinical practice. The assessment tools used are adapted from other contexts of ...

Outcomes in healthcare depend a great deal on the quality of decisions made by the people who care for patients. In the early days of cardiac surgery decisions were often made on the basis of authority by surgeons with broadly based knowledge and skill, developed through extensive training and very ...

School homicides have been become a worldwide phenomenon. In the decade following the Columbine shooting there have been at least forty similar events in other countries. This article addresses the international scope of this problem and some of the complex conceptual issues that make student homicidal violence difficult to define ...

The specialty of pathology and laboratory medicine has entered a phase in which the 4-year sequence of residency training is almost universally followed by 1 or more years of subspecialty fellowship training. Such training may occur in an American Board of Pathology-recognized subspecialty or any number of "subspecialty fellowships" that ...

The Virginia Student Threat Assessment Guidelines were developed to help multidisciplinary school-based teams use a decision tree to evaluate student threats and take appropriate preventive action. A main goal of this approach is to allow school-based teams to recognize and respond to the developmental complexities of children and adolescents without ...

Problem-based learning (PBL) was developed as a facilitated small group learning process based around a clinical problem. Originally designed for pre-clinical years of medical education, its application across all years poses a number of difficulties, including the risk of reducing patient contact, providing a learning process that is skewed towards ...

The aims of this study were to explore the use of animals in teaching and the implementation of innovative technology-based teaching practices across a small sample of universities in Eastern Europe. The research methods used were a questionnaire circulated four weeks before a workshop took place (in October 2009, in ...

Since 1999, Germany has experienced at least twelve serious cases of targeted school violence. This article describes two projects designed to fill the gap between universal prevention and emergency response in preventing severe forms of school violence in Germany. The Berlin Leaking Project examined the viability of preventive efforts based ...

Background/aim:  This paper describes the development of the Student Practice Evaluation Form Revised Edition (SPEF-R) Package. This assessment tool was based on the Student Placement Evaluation Form (SPEF), which was used nationally to evaluate student performance on professional practice placements. Methods:  The SPEF-R was developed using an action research process ...

Implementations involving healthcare technology solutions focus on providing end-user education prior to the application going "live" in the organization. Benefits to postimplementation education for staff should be included when planning these projects. This author describes the traditional training provided during the implementation of a bar-coding medication project and then the ...

In this article, we review how we interact with medical students in our efforts to teach blood pressure regulation and systemic cardiovascular control along with related elements of respiratory and exercise physiology. Rather than provide a detailed lecture with key facts, we attempted to outline our approach to teaching integrative ...

Once viewed almost exclusively as temporary facilities built down to a cost, especially by the architectural community, modular off-site built healthcare buildings have enjoyed increasing success in recent years, as perceptions about their quality, and recognition of their advantages over "traditional" on-site constructed buildings, especially in terms of speed of ...

Intuition is often considered an effective manner of decision making in sports. In this study we investigated whether a preference for intuition over deliberation results in faster and better lab-based choices in team handball attack situations with 54 male and female handball players of different expertise levels. We assumed that ...

Academic hospital medicine (AHM) groups continue to grow rapidly, driven largely by clinical demands. While new hospitalist faculty usually have strong backgrounds in clinical medicine, they often lack the tools needed to achieve excellence in the other aspects of a faculty career, including teaching, research, quality improvement, and leadership skills. ...

The objective of this study was to determine self-confidence of internal medicine (IM) residents regarding rheumatology clinical skills and factors that may affect their confidence. Permission was sought to e-mail a web-based survey to IM residents at all 13 English language Canadian internal medicine programs. Residents were asked to rank ...

The teaching of advanced endodontic courses at the predoctoral level is common, but it can be difficult to assess teaching effectiveness. Advanced modules placed later in the dental curriculum provide the opportunity to introduce a new topic, revisit and reinforce concepts learned previously, and instill the notion of lifelong learning. ...

Using movies as a classroom teaching strategy can provide a dynamic learning experience that engages students in learning complex material and enhances and visually illustrates lecture content. The authors discuss their use of movies and its outcomes in teaching psychiatric and mental health nursing.

Previous studies have suggested that, although orthodontic residents prefer to be live and interactive in a seminar, they learn almost as much when watching a previously recorded interactive seminar and following up with live discussion. Our objective was to test the effectiveness and acceptability of using previously recorded interactive seminars ...

ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE 2011; 18:297-300 © 2011 by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine ABSTRACT: Objectives:  Increased exposure of emergency medicine (EM) residents to rural rotations may enhance recruitment to rural areas. This study sought to characterize the availability and types of rural rotations in EM residency programs and to ...

To describe key determinants for residents' selection of a new community-based, interprofessional site for their family medicine training, and to evaluate residents' satisfaction with their programs. Combined qualitative and quantitative methods using in-depth interviews and a survey. McMaster University, including the new site of the Centre for Family Medicine in ...

The critical shortage of surgeons and access to surgical care in Africa is increasingly being recognized as a global health crisis. Across Africa, there is only one surgeon for every 250,000 people and only one for every 2.5 million of those living in rural areas. Surgical diseases are responsible for ...

Background:  This paper presents our experience of running a special study module (SSM) in the second semester of the first year of our 5-year medical programme, worth 10 per cent of that semester's assessment, in which each student constructs an individually selected model illustrating a specific aspect of the teaching course. Method:  ...

Online modules offer an opportunity to overcome barriers to educational delivery. Such approaches can require significant investment dependent on the development model used. There is little in the literature on the formative assessment of design and development. Better understanding is needed to determine effective methods of training and supporting faculty ...

ARTICLE TITLE AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: Efficacy of an oral health promotion intervention in the prevention of early childhood caries. Plutzer K, Spencer AJ. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 2008;36(4):335-46. REVIEWER: David G. Pendrys, DDS, PhD PURPOSE/QUESTION: To determine if a program providing written guidance to first-time mothers would lead to a ...