conclusions our results suggest that the personnel in the five participating faculties were highly satisfied with the practical performance of the residents, who were found to hold good attitudes towards the program as a whole. background the goal of this study was to evaluate the impact of intubation skill training involving the use of mannequins on novice anesthesiology residents in a knowled...

  The C7-RAS 6/061-004 training course by the International Atomic Energy Agency/Regional Cooperative Agreement (IAEA/RCA) was held in Chiba in 2014. The syllabus, pre- and post-course evaluations, and survey questionnaire results were assembled in this course. The post-course evaluation, including 32 questions similar to the pre-course evaluation, was performed right after the end of the final...

A partnership model was established among key education providers, policy makers, non-government organisations, the local area health service and Aboriginal community controlled organisations aimed at increasing collaboration, skill development, cultural competence and increasing access to mentorship and expertise for Aboriginal Health Workers (AHWs). A group of 21 AHWs, within two cohorts, und...

background and purpose: the spices model has been proposed to be used both as a framework for quality improvement in medical education and as a guide for evaluation of curricula. the six strategies of spices are representatives of innovative approaches to medical education, and each one has been considered as a continuum. the present study models a theory-based questionnaire, based on spices, t...

Suicidal digitalis poisoning is life-threatening and often has a fatal outcome. The treatment and clinical course of acute poisoning with 250 mg digitoxin in a depressive male patient aged 48 years are reported. Marked elevation of serum digitoxin level (360 nmol/l 8 hours after ingestion) and initial hyperkalemia (5.7 mmol/l) as well as the history of excessive dose intake, pointed toward seve...

STUDY DESIGN Review paper of outcome studies among primary care back pain patients. OBJECTIVES To determine the short-term and long-term pain and functional outcomes of patients with back pain who are seeking treatment in primary care settings. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Back pain has been viewed as running either an acute or a chronic course, but most patients experience recurrent back pai...

Citation: Long C, Sun Q, Jia S, Li P and Chen A (2018) Give Me a Chance! Sense of Opportunity Inequality Affects Brain Responses to Outcome Evaluation in a Social Competitive Context: An Event-Related Potential Study. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 12:135. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00135 People are strongly motivated to pursue social equality during social interactions. Previous studies have shown that ou...

This paper is to present a framework for student outcome-based assessment and evaluation, including the process detailed activities leading continue of successes an academic program which essential its sustainability. Moreover, this provides survey literature that reviews different means assessing evaluating together with critical performance metrics aid in quantifying such evaluation. The pres...

Student ratings of teaching have been used, studied, and debated for almost a century. This article examines student ratings of teaching from a statistical perspective. The common practice of relying on averages of student teaching evaluation scores as the primary measure of teaching effectiveness for promotion and tenure decisions should be abandoned for substantive and statistical reasons: Th...