AIM To evaluate a rheumatoid arthritis patient-instructor-based formation-assessment programme for its ability to improve and assess musculoskeletal knowledge and skills in third-year medical students. METHODS (1) The quality of our musculoskeletal teaching was assessed before patient-instructor intervention through an open-questions test (pre-test) and performance record forms (PRFs) filled ...

There are inaccuracies and inconsistencies of radiographic interpretation among clinical instructors. The purpose of this investigation was to determine if a training program could improve the accuracy and consistency of instructors' ratings of bone loss. A total of thirty-five clinical instructors consisting of periodontal faculty (periodontists and general dentists), dental hygiene faculty, a...

INTRODUCTION With declining exposure to the ophthalmologic examination in medical school, medical students and their instructors need a simple, effective method for teaching direct ophthalmoscopy. OBJECTIVE Evaluation of canisters as direct ophthalmoscopy teaching aids for medical students. METHODS Two ounce plastic canisters were designed to simulate an eye with 35 mm fundus photographs pl...

For both instructors and students, the epitome of computer-based instruction is a program that presents precisely the information that the instructor wants students to know. The program is interactive, selfpaced, self-directed, and, unlike the instructor, never distracted or too tired or in too much of a hurry. The program may be a tutorial, a self-assessment quiz, a presentation of cases, or a...

Online discussion boards (ODBs) are asynchronous, text-based, online applications commonly used in online courses to support interaction among students. To improve ODB design, it is necessary to understand the beliefs, attitudes, and requirements of online instructors who use them. To this end, an exploratory study was conducted to capture experiences with and reactions to ODB use from online i...

PURPOSE To examine the influence of individual participant, instructor, and group factors on participants' attendance and adherence to community exercise classes for older adults. DESIGN AND METHODS Longitudinal data from 16 instructors, 26 classes, and 193 older participants within those classes (aged 60-100 years) were examined. Data were collected using questionnaires on individual partici...

Higher education in Tanzania like in many other Sub-Saharan countries suffers from unavailability of quality teaching and learning resources due to lack of tradition, competence, and experience to develop such resources. Nevertheless, there are thousands of open educational resources (OER) freely available in the public domain that can potentially improve the quality of existing resources or he...

INTRODUCTION This study was conducted to correlate the personal formaldehyde (FA) exposure levels of instructors and students with the indoor FA concentrations in gross anatomy laboratory at King Saud University. The personal FA levels of instructors and students are higher than the indoor FA concentration in the gross anatomy laboratory. MATERIALS AND METHODS The gross anatomy laboratory at ...

We set out to identify the benefits and drawbacks of using more than one instructor to teach single section science courses at a large research university. Nine courses were investigated involving widely differing subjects and levels. Teaching models included: sequential teaching with two to six instructors each covering only their own modules, two teachers present in class at all times, and hy...