Helping Medical Trainees Understand the Financial Health of Training Institutions

Helping Students Understand Challenging Topics in Science Through Ontology Training

Chi (2005) proposed that students experience difficulty in learning about physics concepts such as light, heat, or electric current because they attribute to these concepts an inappropriate ontological status of material substances rather than the more veridical status of emergent processes. Conceptual change could thus be facilitated by training students in the appropriate ontology prior to ph...

Patient safety: helping medical students understand error in healthcare.

OBJECTIVE To change the culture of healthcare organisations and improve patient safety, new professionals need to be taught about adverse events and how to trap and mitigate against errors. A literature review did not reveal any patient safety courses in the core undergraduate medical curriculum. Therefore a new module was designed and piloted. DESIGN A 5-h evidence-based module on understand...

An Automatic System for Helping Health Consumers to Understand Medical Texts

Medical texts (reports, articles, etc.) are usually written by professionals (physicians, medical researchers, etc.) who use their own language and communication style. On the other hand, these texts are often read by health consumers (as in the case of medical reports) who do not have the same skills and vocabularies of the experts and can have difficulties in text comprehension. To help a hea...

Helping Computers Understand People

Recommender systems are new types of internetbased software tools, designed to help users find their way through today’s complex on-line shops and entertainment websites. This paper describes a new recommender system, which employs a genetic algorithm to learn personal preferences of users and provide tailored suggestions.

Overcoming low health literacy: helping your patient understand.