During the last couple of decades e-learning has become an important way of education. In comparison to traditional, face-to-face learning, where all participants are collocated (same place/same time), e-learning represent a radical change in education process, because participants in e-learning process are at physical distance. Due to the physical separation of participants in e-learning proce...

Nurses distinguish continuous professional development intended for career improvement and personal development from continuous professional development intended for improvement of skills and knowledge. Too many requests are put in front of an individual unacceptably stretching it onto the life outside work. Students have various expectations from their education. Factors that motivate nurses t...

Professional identity formation (PIF) within medical education is the multifaceted, individualized process through which students develop new ways of being in becoming physicians. Personal backgrounds, values, expectations, interests, goals, relationships, and role models can all influence PIF and may account for diversity of both experience and the active constructive process of professional f...

A number of reports in the past decade have concluded that the medical education system must be reformed. These reports often call for the incorporation of new technologies into the educational process. One technology that has found its way into the medical educational environment is the personal computer. This essay critically examines the introduction of the personal computer into medical edu...

Personal digital assistants (PDAs) or handheld computers have become more popular in the practice of medicine. These devices have implications for psychiatric practice, and this paper reviews various published articles describing their use. The literature demonstrates their use in document editing, patient tracking, accessing medical information and drug reference guides, prescription writing, ...

The following work focuses on the requirements for a Collaborative Augmented Reality System with the usage of Internet technologies to create new possibilities for collaborative teaching. In most learning environments, learning is imparted through seeing and hearing. In this paper, Collaborative AR Discussion and personal experience are also integrated in order to achieve a quicker transmission...

The video game industry has continued to grow dramatically over the past decade, cutting into mainstream media in participation and revenues as it becomes part of mainstream media culture. Following the industrial organization model, this paper conceptualizes and systematically analyzes five vertical stages and the key market segments of consoles, handheld and PC-based games. Genre-based measur...

OBJECTIVE To examine factors that are associated with the apprehension levels of oncology nurses toward hospice care. Factors examined in this study included demographics, nursing experience, education levels, title and post, personal experiences, and attitudes toward end-of-life care. METHODS Questionnaires were provided to nurses (n=201) from three first-tier hospitals in China. A quantitat...

The development of professional identity is something which all students entering a vocational profession will encounter, and this is particularly so within health care where health professionals are expected to work as part of a team rather than as individual and isolated practitioners. Alongside this, students will develop perceptions relating to the roles, responsibilities, and even behaviou...

PARADIGM Akshay Mohan, Rosalind Picard The Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 20 Ames Street, Cambridge MA 02139-4307 USA {amohan, picard}@media.mit.edu Abstract The paper describes Health0: an innovative healthcare and lifestyle management wearable system that aims to bring an individual focused approach to healthcare. A modular architecture is proposed that combines a Lin...