OBJECTIVE To compare learning styles of undergraduate and postgraduate medical students. STUDY DESIGN Observational, comparative study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of Medical Education, Army Medical College, NUST, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, during February and March 2012. METHODOLOGY A total of 170 students were divided into two equal groups of undergraduate students of Army Medical...

The Department of Dental Medicine of Lutheran Medical Center has developed an asynchronous online curriculum consisting of prerecorded PowerPoint presentations with audio explanations. The focus of this study was to evaluate if the new asynchronous format satisfied the educational needs of the residents compared to traditional lecture (face-to-face) and synchronous (distance learning) formats. ...

Based on the survey data of 364 peasant households in Yibin, Sichuan, this paper analyzes the farmer’s willingness to small forest tenure mortgage loans. The result indicates a high willingness up to 74.2%, i.e. the farmers are willing to invest forest tenure mortgage loans into forestry and agricultural production. The influential factors on farmer’s willingness to small forest tenure mortgage...