Basic Living Skills Program Training

An independent living skills training program.

The growing rehabilitation and consumer movement toward independent community living for disabled adults has placed new demands on the health care delivery system. Programs must be developed for the disabled adult that provide direct training in adaptive community skills, such as banking, budgeting, consumer advocacy, personal health care, and attendant management. An Independent Living Skills ...

Virtual Reality Training for Endoscopic Surgery Composing a Validated Training Program for Basic Skills

Basic Plastic Surgery Skills Training Program on Inanimate Bench Models during Medical Graduation

Due to ethical and medical-legal drawbacks, high costs, and difficulties of accessibility that are inherent to the practice of basic surgical skills on living patients, fresh human cadaver, and live animals, the search for alternative forms of training is needed. In this study, the teaching and learning process of basic surgical skills pertinent to plastic surgery during medical education on di...

Program Participation and Self-Directed Learning to Improve Basic Skills

An analysis of baseline data collected by the Longitudinal Study of Adult Learning (LSAL) offers a glimpse of the formal and informal learning activities underlying adults' literacy development. Few adult educators will be surprised to hear that many in the LSAL population participate in adult basic or secondary education programs to improve their reading, writing, and math skills. After all, t...

Training basic laparoscopic skills using a custom-made video game

Video games are accepted and used for a wide variety of applications. In the medical world, research on the positive effects of playing games on basic laparoscopic skills is rapidly increasing. Although these benefits have been proven several times, no institution actually uses video games for surgical training. This Short Communication describes some of the theoretical backgrounds, development...