Creation of a Graduate Oral/Written Communication Skills Course

A communication skills course for undergraduate dental students.

Sixty-seven third-year dental students in Dunedin, New Zealand, participated in a communication skills course, using simulated patients, case-based scenarios, videotaped interviews, and class roleplays. The course introduced active listening techniques, taking a medical history, and emotion-handling skills. This course was adapted from an existing course for medical students run by the Departme...

Implementing and tailoring a western-developed communication skills training program for graduate medical trainees in Qatar

1Department of Medical Education, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar 2Department of Pediatrics, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar 3Department of Surgery, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar 4Department of Dentistry, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar 5Department of Anesthesia, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar 6Department of Geriatrics, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qata...

A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography

Task Design Principles of a Campus-Based Communication Skills Course in a Natural-Virtual Learning Community

Many students from non-English speaking backgrounds find it difficult to use English in the virtual learning communities. This paper proposes a task designed for a campus-based English course in a Singapore university and explains the theoretical underpinnings of the design. It is argued that communication skills in both “virtual” and “natural” learning communities need to be learned. As such, ...

A Graduate Level Expert Systems Course

system studied. The Computer Science Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute offers a course called Expert, Knowledge-Based, Problem-Solving Systems to graduate students who have already taken the graduate-level introduction to AI. The course size is limited to 20. It is run as a 14-week course, with one 3-hour class per week. One goal of the course is to examine a number of expert, knowl...