OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of students' rating as a teacher evaluation tool. STUDY DESIGN Concurrent mixed method. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY King Edward Medical University, Lahore, from January to June 2010. METHODOLOGY Anonymous 5-point Likert scale survey questionnaire was conducted involving a single class consisting of 310 students and 12 students were selected for str...

Objectives: Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) technologies are developed to enable elderly to live independently and safely. Innovative information technology (IT) can interconnect personal devices and offer suitable user interfaces. Often dedicated solutions are developed for particular projects. The aim of our research was to identify major IT challenges for AAL to enable generic and sustainable ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate university students’ thoughts and practices concerning digital citizenship. An explanatory mixed methods design was used, and it involved collecting qualitative data after a quantitative phase in order to follow up on the quantitative data in more depth. In the first quantitative phase of the study, a digital citizenship survey, including demographic...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to explore perceptions of communication quality at pediatric rapid response events and to determine whether these perceptions differed between rapid response team (RRT) members (RRTm) and floor providers (FP). METHODS This survey study was conducted of clinical providers involved in RRT events at a tertiary care children's hospital. Perceptions of RR...

The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse offers the first online medical dosimetry program in the nation. There is no data to research a program of this type. This research consisted of the evaluation of other distance education programs including health profession programs in addition to face-to-face medical dosimetry programs. There was a need to collect and analyze student perceptions of online...

INTRODUCTION We analysed written comments on clerkship evaluation forms to determine if they furthered our understanding of students' professional behaviour. METHODS We transcribed all written comments related to professional behaviour for 1 medical school class in 4 major clerkships, then categorised the comments. Comments were coded into categories by two raters. They were also coded as pos...

BACKGROUND With milestones-based assessment, there is an increased need for tools to facilitate direct observation of clinical trainees. This study was designed to compare a Mini-CEX tool to new direct observation tools (DOTs) linked to internal medicine milestones. METHODS A web based survey was used to examine satisfaction and usefulness of DOTs compared to the Mini-CEX. Residents and prece...

OBJECTIVES Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) technologies are developed to enable elderly to live independently and safely. Innovative information technology (IT) can interconnect personal devices and offer suitable user interfaces. Often dedicated solutions are developed for particular projects. The aim of our research was to identify major IT challenges for AAL to enable generic and sustainable s...

BACKGROUND The use of social networking sites is increasingly being adopted in public health, in part, because of the barriers to funding and reduced resources. Public health professionals are using social media platforms, specifically Twitter, as a way to facilitate professional development. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to identify public health professionals using Twitter and t...

Teachers need professional development to keep current with teaching practices; although costs for extensive professional development can be prohibitive across an education system. Mentoring provides one way for embedding cost-effective professional development. This mixed method study includes surveying mentor teachers (n=101) on a five part Likert scale and interviews with experienced mentors...