INTRODUCTION In Uganda, an estimated 120 obstetrician/gynecologists serve a population of 30 million people demonstrating the need to train additional skilled clinician leaders in reproductive health. In 2012, a partnership was formed with the Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital (MRRH) in southwest Uganda and the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston, USA, in part to increase access to ...

Background: Small Group Teaching (SGT) has grown in popularity medical education as it offers a dynamic setting for learning and is also learnercentered. Materials Methods: Hundred final year MBBS students with informed consent were divided randomly into two groups. A was delivered didactic lecture on the topic of Infant deaths, B administered casebased then subjected to small group interactive...

In this paper, modern ways of digitalization the educational process are considered and analyzed. An alternative innovative solution can be a theory inventive problem solving (TRIZ) methodology, taking into account didactic principles education (continuity, succession, accessibility, etc.). The dynamics technologies requires constant updating environment; inclusion teacher in activities; active...

Introduction: Ever-expanding medical literature demandssuccessful amalgamation of huge information and clinical practicefor budding doctors. This study aimed to find the effectivenessof the concept map, a novel method of teaching to improveperformance among undergraduate pharmacology students.Methods: The undergraduate medical students pursuingpharmacology in...

Problem statement. An important condition for the effective training of future specialists in information, library and archival affairs is use interactive didactic methods during classes. One common lecture method, which today should acquire features an lecture, its ensure quality professional communicative competence professionals information field as integral part their professionalism. The p...

OBJECTIVES This longitudinal study was aimed to investigate the association between didactic grades and practical skills for dental students and whether didactic grades can reliability predict the dental students' practical performance. MATERIALS AND METHODS Didactic and practical grades for graduates from the Faculty of Dentistry, King Abdulaziz University, between the years 2009 and 2011 we...

Since all doctors at some point in their career will be faced with their role as a teacher, it appears desirable that future doctors are educated in didactic skills. At present, however, there are no formal opportunities for developing didactic skills at the majority of Dutch medical faculties. The main question of this study is: How do medical interns perceive the quality and quantity of their...

The evaluation and reevaluation of the fundamental didactic principles suppose the acceptance at the level of an instructive-educative activity of a new educational paradigm. Thus, its understanding implies an assumption at a conceptual-theoretical level of some approaches where the didactic aspects find their usefulness by relating to value principles. This situation expresses in fact focus on...

Study objectives: To study the short-term and long-term effects of combining activity training or lectures to exercise training on quality of life, functional status, and exercise tolerance. Design: Randomized clinical trial. Setting: Outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation center. Participants: Forty-three outpatients with COPD. Interventions: Patients were randomized to one of three treatment gro...

INTRODUCTION A "flipped classroom" educational model exchanges the traditional format of a classroom lecture and homework problem set. We piloted two flipped classroom sessions in our emergency medicine (EM) residency didactic schedule. We aimed to learn about resident and faculty impressions of the sessions, in order to develop them as a regular component of our residency curriculum. METHODS...