The aim of this article was to report on the attitudes, opinions and confidences of final year dental students in three European schools towards the restoration of posterior teeth and in particular towards the use of amalgam and resin composite. One hundred and twenty-eight pre-piloted questionnaires were distributed to final year dental students in Cardiff, Dublin and Malmö. The questionnaire ...

There is little information about the willingness of medical students to participate in Facebook for education. I analyzed my interactions with students for the past 14 months to estimate the quantity of student interaction. A Facebook Group was created. Students friend requests were accepted, but "friending" was never solicited. Questions were created around a clinical situation and posted. Fo...

PURPOSE Computer-assisted learning (CAL) tools are often used in medical education as it can complement conventional teaching formats and as an alternative to animal experiments in undergraduate medical students. To identify if there is any benefit of integrating CAL tools with conventional teaching format in pharmacology for a specific topic. MATERIALS AND METHODS Two groups of fourth semest...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effectiveness of a brief, school-based intervention for preventing alcohol use. DESIGN AND SETTING Randomized, control trial assigning inner-city public school students to an intervention program or a comparison program. PARTICIPANTS Sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students in Jacksonville, Fla (N=104). INTERVENTIONS Students assigned to the intervention program ...

Students studying a distance education course on introductory object-oriented programming are provided with a set of practical activities to support their learning. Each practical activity consists of a set of tasks to be worked through at home over a specified period of time. Whilst students are provided with considerable guidance on how to approach their practical work we have no knowledge of...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relation of classroom physical activity breaks to students' physical activity and classroom behavior. METHODS Six elementary-school districts in California implemented classroom physical activity interventions in 2013-2014. Students' (N=1322) accelerometer-measured moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) during school and teachers' (N=397) reports of impleme...

Abstract Objective High-level cognitive performance is important for navigating the complex environment of sport. The executive function domain may be particular importance because it focuses on flexible thinking and self-control. It unclear if high-level athletes exhibit similar compared to recreational athletes. Therefore, purpose this study was compare between male female Division-I collegia...

OBJECTIVE We assessed the effectiveness of the Luoghi di Prevenzione-Prevention Grounds school-based smoking prevention programme. METHODS We undertook a cluster randomized controlled trial of 989 students aged 14-15 years in 13 secondary schools located in Reggio Emilia, Italy. The intervention consisted of the "Smoking Prevention Tour" (SPT) out-of-school workshop, one in-depth lesson on on...

Integrating medical ethics into the physiology teaching-learning program has been largely unexplored in India. The objective of this exercise was to introduce an interactive and integrated ethics program into the Physiology course of first-year medical students and to evaluate their perceptions. Sixty medical students (30 men, 30 women) underwent 11 sessions over a 7-mo period. Two of the Physi...

BACKGROUND The Polytechnic introduced a "WHY WAIT?" course to equip first year students with skills to help reduce transmission of Human Immune-deficiency Virus (HIV). Training is conducted during the first week of arrival at college. The study aimed to explore existing knowledge, beliefs and attitudes in order to tailor the training programme to students' needs. METHODS This was a cross sect...