Not Child’s Play

It’s Childs play - The Games Software Industry in Ireland

Over the last decade, Ireland has become one of the largest exporters of computer software in the world. However, the games software development sector has received little attention from industrial development agencies, academia and financiers until recently, despite the global games software industry market being worth an estimated €16bn in 2001 and being projected to grow by over 70% by 2007 ...

To play or not to play.

Do Not Play with Fire

We report a case of exogenous lipoid pneumonia caused by inhalation of liquid paraffin in a fire eater young man. The patient was admitted to the Emergency Department because of acute retrosternal pain, dry cough and dyspnea. Chest radiograph showed multiple bilateral basal alveolar opacities associated to left pleural effusion; CT chest scan showed multiple bilateral areas of consolidation wit...

Toddlers Learn with Facilitated Play, Not Free Play

Can children of all age groups engage in self-directed learning? While active learning has been widely advocated in education, it remains unclear whether its benefits apply to children at all developmental levels. In the present study, we demonstrate that 19-month-old toddlers acquire higher-order generalizations in the causal domain only when their play is facilitated by an adult experimenter ...

Play the Music, not the Instrument

It is every Editor’s dream that articles in ‘their’ journal serve a wide population of interested readers and that some papers are so challenging that they are actually followed up by readers’ reactions. Consequently, the Editors of the current issue of Perspectives on Medical Education are proud of the issue you see on your screen now (or even hold in your hands)! We have six full papers for y...