introduction. in order to educate any subject, needs and lack of knowledge must be recognized. family planning is an essential subject for instructing to all university students, therefore, the purpose of this study is to determine educational needs of medical student about emergency contraception ( ec ). methods. this descriptive study was performed on 102 female nursing midwifery, health, and...

Background: Pulse Oximeter monitoring has become so common over previous decades that in some health care units, blood oxygen level is now considered as the fifth vital sign. However, it seems there is still some lack of knowledge and/or experience among medical staff operating pulse oximeter and interpreting its results. The aim of this study was to investigate and compare the knowledge on Pul...

Highlights: • Magnetic resonance imaging has become a viable imaging modality for clinical use in the detection of pulmonary embolism (PE) • Low flip angle T1-weighted 3D gradient echo sequences, combined with noncontrast steady state free precession sequences, improve detection rate for PE compared with MR angiography alone • Newer image acquisition methods that correct for motion artifact all...

INTRODUCTION A 1996 report, The Condition of Education in Los Angeles County, found that Latinos had the lowest enrollment rates in college-preparatory mathematics courses in the County. These statistics are particularly disturbing given recent research that links mathematics course-taking with both higher standardized test scores and future educational opportunities. This link, combined with t...

BACKGROUND Understanding the processes across childhood and adolescence that affect later life inequalities depends on many variables for a large number of individuals measured over substantial time periods. Linkable administrative data were used to generate birth cohorts and to study pathways of inequity in childhood and early adolescence leading to differences in educational attainment. Advan...

This paper summarizes the content and application of the SEED2002 project. SEED2002 is a university/industry collaboration to enhance and reform the education in the field of semi-custom/full-custom ASIC design at the universities of Mannheim, Heidelberg and Kaiserslautern, Germany. With this project Cadence Design Systems enables us to teach leading-edge ASIC design using their most innovative...

The efficiency of an educational system is related to the ability to deliver personalized content to a student. The current educational systems use advanced mechanisms for adaptation by utilizing available knowledge about the domain area. However, describing a domain area in sufficient detail to allow accurate personalization is a tedious and timeconsuming task. Only few works are related to th...

This study aims to investigate preservice computer teachers‘ self-efficacy beliefs and achievement motivation levels for educational software development before and after the ―Educational Software Design, Development and Evaluation (ESDDE)‖ course. A pretest and post test design without a control group was employed. In 2008, 46 senior students (25 male and 21 female) who were enrolled at Comput...

The growth of internet and the evolution of supporting infrastructures motivated universities and other educational institutions to adopt new teaching methods. These unsupervised methods are focused on the dissemination of the educational material and the evaluation of the users through tests and activities. The user behavior is not monitored and the performance of users cannot be reasoned in m...

Many medical universitiesaround the world have donestunning changes in the recent years.Some of these changes have been performed with the support of international organizations.They changed the traditionaltrainingprograms based on teacher- centered learning and disciplined approach to the educational course based on community needs responsivity and Student-centered learning. This process is ai...