BACKGROUND Physicians and medical educators have repeatedly acknowledged the inadequacy of communication skills training in the medical school curriculum and opportunities to improve these skills in practice. This study of a controlled intervention evaluates the effect of teaching practicing physicians the skill of "agenda-setting" on patients' experiences with care. The agenda-setting interven...

PURPOSE To study U.S.-born international medical graduates in order to analyze changes in their numbers and countries of training from the 1960s and before until the early 2000s. METHOD This study was conducted from 2003-2004 at the Center for Health Workforce Studies, University of Washington. The analysis was based on data from March 2002 from the American Medical Association (AMA) for acti...

This paper aims to examine the madrasa development strategy in improving quality of its Human Resources, which is not focused on just one, but as a whole, starting from leaders, educators, education staff (staff), stakeholders, and guardians students. Correlate-apply between family school educational environment with concept semi-Islamic boarding management. study uses descriptive qualitative m...

Prezi is a Hungarian software company, producing a cloud-based presentation software and storytelling tool for presenting ideas on a virtual canvas (Prezi.com). Prezi is one of the teaching materials that help students in learning process. This study aims to explore the effectiveness of using Prezi in Islamic education subject among secondary schools under the topic of marriage in Islam: polyga...

the purpose of the research was to study the effect of ict on improving learning in geography and science courses. the research method was a semi-experimental one with two groups of students in which pretest and posttest were used. the statistical population of the research included 48963 students, that is, all the elementary girl students in sari in 2011-2012 academic year. from among the scho...

Religion plays a significant role in a patient’s bioethical decision to have an abortion as well as in a country’s abortion policy. Nevertheless, a holistic understanding of the Islamic position remains under-researched. This study first conducted a detailed and systematic analysis of Islam’s position towards abortion through examining the most authoritative biblical texts (i.e. the Quran and S...