Performance improvement is thought to occur through engagement in deliberate practice. Deliberate practice is predicted to be challenging, effortful, and not inherently enjoyable. Expert and intermediate level Gaelic football players executed two types of kicks during an acquisition phase and pre-, post-, and retention tests. During acquisition, participants self-selected how they practiced and...

OBJECTIVE To review the case records of patients admitted to an accident and emergency (A&E) observation ward following deliberate self harm. METHODS The hospital notes of 568 patients admitted during one year following episodes of deliberate self harm were reviewed. The study was retrospective. RESULTS The majority of these patients had taken an overdose and were between 18 and 35 years of...

Deliberate self-harm has recently begun to receive more systematic attention from clinical researchers. However, there remains a general lack of consensus as to how to define and measure this important clinical construct. There is still no standardized, empirically validated measure of deliberate selfharm, making it more difficult for research in this area to advance. The present paper provides...

Udani et al. have presented the results of a straightforward study on the effect of simulation-basedmastery learning with deliberate practice on clinical performance in spinal anesthesia [1]. And the results of the study are equally straightforward: simulation-based mastery learning with deliberate practice appears to improve the skills of learners. However, there are a number of reasons to be ...

More than 20 years ago, researchers proposed that individual differences in performance in such domains as music, sports, and games largely reflect individual differences in amount of deliberate practice, which was defined as engagement in structured activities created specifically to improve performance in a domain. This view is a frequent topic of popular-science writing-but is it supported b...

People generally develop some degree of competence in general informal reasoning and argument skills, but how do they go beyond this to attain higher expertise? Ericsson has proposed that high-level expertise in a variety of domains is cultivated through a specific type of practice, referred to as "deliberate practice." Applying this framework yields the empirical hypothesis that high-level exp...