Editorial: Are They Listening? Policymakers and Their Role in Public Education

kids and teenager are sleepy at school because the electronic media they have in their bedrooms leads them to have delayed sleep phase disorder (dspd)

bserved by many teachers that most of the time, mumbling and searching for their intended words, students complain why they have forgotten the words they have learned in the previous semesters. they ask for some new ways that may help them to recall and apply the learned words more efficiently, since as they declare one of the most important skills in foreign language learning is having a g...

Standardized patients versus simulated patients in medical education: are they the same or different

In order to equip medical students with all the necessary skills in dealing with patients to provide optimal treatment, the need for the use of real patients in educational settings has become prominent. But all the required skills cannot be practiced on real patients due to patients’ safety and well-being. Thus, the use of standardized patients (SPs) or simulated patients (SiPs) as a substitut...

Nurse prescribers: who are they and how do they perceive their role?

AIMS This paper reports a study to elicit background data from recently qualified nurse prescribers and explore aspects of their work. BACKGROUND Nurse prescribing has been introduced quite recently in the United Kingdom. Although a certain amount of information is available about the characteristics of nurse prescribers, relatively little is known about their professional backgrounds, their ...

Editorial: Listening in Auditory Space

and normal word-recognition scores nonetheless complain that speech is difficult to understand, especially when there is background competition. In children this complaint is associated with “auditory processing disorder,” or “APD.” In adults it has been variously termed “obscure auditory dysfunction,” “KingKopetzky Syndrome,” and “APD.” In seniors it is linked to “presbyacusis.” Whatever the n...

Emerging trends in medical education: What are they? And why are they important?