INTRODUCTION Increasingly medical students undertake clinical training in distributed learning environments. The driving factor for this is predominantly to address medical workforce shortages. In these environments students are often taught by private practitioners, residents, house staff and registrars, as well as faculty. Through a mix of short- and long-term preceptorships, clerkships and r...

Context Preceptor training is designed to provide instruction on preceptorship, an overview of athletic program processes, and preceptor professional development. Preceptors generally do not have formal how be educators. Most occurs at the institutional level, with content, frequency, delivery discretion institution. Objective Investigate preceptors' perceptions prepares them for using clinical...

This paper reviews the literature on nursing competence measurement and reports the results of a comparative quantitative study of the competencies of Project 2000 diplomates and BA (Hons) Adult Nursing graduates from two UK nursing programmes. The findings reveal that graduates appear to overcome any initial limitations and become more competent than the diplomates in certain areas. Attention ...

The author’s version of the electromagnetic field theory of consciousness is stated briefly and then three difficulties with the theory are discussed. The first is a purely technical problem: how to measure accurately enough the spatial properties of the fields which are proposed to be conscious and then how to generate these artificially, so that the theory can be tested. The second difficulty...

Abstract. The properties of the layer of electrons near the quark surface of strange stars with strong (∼ 10 − 10G) magnetic field are studied in details. The electrostatic potential and the electric field at quark surface are calculated as functions of magnetic field intensity for bare strange stars. We find with ultra-strong (B ≥ 2.5 × 10G) magnetic field, the distribution of electrons, which...

Optimal patient care can best be achieved when the patient’s characteristics are matched by the nurse’s characteristics. Proposed Corollary for the Synergy Model Webster defines a corollary as “something that naturally follows” from something else. When I consider the American Association for Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) Synergy Model for Patient Care with a clinician’s eye, I can immediately se...

Recently [1] we have shown that the solution of the field equations of a metric nonsymmetric theory of gravitation [2I,II] outside a spherically symmetric time-dependent matter distribution is necessarily static. This is the analogue of the theorem of Birkhoff of general relativity (GR). Here we extend the result to the situation in which electromagnetic field is also present, that is, when the...

BACKGROUND Despite increasing attention to providing preclinical medical students with early patient experiences, little is known about associated outcomes for students. The authors compared three early patient experiences at a large American medical school where all preclinical students complete preceptorships and weekly bedside clinical-skills training and about half complete clinical, commun...

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