Betting on the most promising new ideas is key to creativity and innovation in organizations, but predicting the success of novel ideas can be difficult. To select the best ideas, creators and managers must excel at creative forecasting, the skill of predicting the outcomes of new ideas. Using both a field study of 339 professionals in the circus arts industry and a lab experiment, I examine th...

Background: This study investigates medical students’ level of satisfaction with the effectiveness of PBL and Skills Lab training. It also seeks students’ opinions on the duration of the Phase I Programme and whether the pre and para clinical courses appropriately prepare them for ward-readiness. Method: An anonymous questionnaire was administered to 4th and 5th year medical students seeking th...

INTRODUCTION The external chest compression is a very important skill required to maintain a minimum of circulation during cardiac arrest until further medical procedures can be taken. Peyton's 4-Steps-Approach is one method of skill training, the four steps being: Demonstration, Deconstruction, Comprehension and Execution. Based on CPR skill training, this method is widely, allegedly predomina...

The Communication Sciences Department at Case Western Reserve University is building an immersive virtual reality (IVR) cave simulation research laboratory to increase student clinical competency skills and carry over of therapeutic skills for children and adults with communication disorders. The use of this IVR simulation lab known as the Virtual Immersion Center for Simulation Research (VICSR...