To reduce academic dishonesty and strengthen learning outcomes, I adopted in-depth oral examinations as my benchmark summative assessments in a Human Anatomy & Physiology course taught an online asynchronous setting. This decision led students me down the transformative path of mastery learning. was threshold experience for who were how to think express themselves physiologists. also explor...

Healthcare educators are encouraged to provide both skill-based practical exams and interprofessional experiences prepare students for clinical practice. With come increased student stress anxiety. This article reports on the development, exploratory outcomes, lessons learned from an ungraded objective structured examinations (OSCEs) event involving doctoral-level occupational therapy bachelor-...

Outline of Expectations for Students: • Schedule a thesis committee meeting for the exam. Scheduling includes finding a date that works for each of your committee members and finding a room to hold the exam in. • Prepare an NIH/NSF style written grant proposal on your thesis project (just the science and bibliography parts – not any of the other forms). While the proposal should include some pr...

We present an approach for recognizing human action from a mobile platform. Three components are essential to our action recognition pipeline. First, a new off-the-shelf active sensor is employed to obtain observations. Next, we use our observables to generate a set of pose-inspired features. Finally, we use these features to obtain a history over actions, with the use of a Hidden Markov Model ...

BACKGROUND The long-term effect of problem-based learning (PBL) on factual knowledge is poorly investigated. We took advantage of a previous randomised comparison between PBL and traditional teaching in a 3rd year course to follow up factual knowledge of the students during their 4th and 5th year of medical school training. METHODS 3rd year medical students were initially randomized to partic...

Sleep behavior is heavily influenced by interactions between circadian and homeostatic mechanisms. These interactions, which have been modeled by Borbely and others, vary across individuals, between the sexes, and among species, and they change across the lifespan. In some species, like us, they typically produce a relatively long sleep bout at one time of day whereas in other species, like rat...

The main objective of this study is to assess the cost benefit associated with comprehensive eye exams as a tool for the early detection of diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol. A retrospective, claims-based analysis was performed using U.S.-based employees and spouses from a large, national database. Individuals who received first notification of disease as a result of an eye exam were...

Outline of Expectations for Students: • Schedule a thesis committee meeting for the exam. Scheduling includes finding a date that works for each of your committee members and finding a room to hold the exam in. • Prepare an NIH/NSF style written grant proposal on your thesis project (just the science and bibliography parts – not any of the other forms). While the proposal should include some pr...