BACKGROUND Previous studies report various degrees of agreement between self-perceived competence and objectively measured competence in medical students. There is still a paucity of evidence on how the two correlate in the field of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM). We undertook a cross-sectional study to evaluate the self-perceived competence in EBM of senior medical students in Malaysia, and ass...

Non-verbal communication incorporating visual, audio, and contextual information is important to make sense of and navigate the social world. Individuals who have trouble with social situations often have difficulty recognizing these sorts of non-verbal social signals. In this article, we propose a training tool NOCOA+ (Non-verbal COmmuniation for Autism plus) that uses utterances in visual and...

2009;22(3) S Afr J Clin Nutr a Du Plessis LM, M Nutrition, RD (SA) b Labadarios D, MBChB, PhD, FACN c Singh T, MD, MA (Distance Education) a Marais D, PhD, RD (SA) a Division of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South Africa b Knowledge Systems, Human Sciences Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa and Tygerberg Academic Hospital, Tygerberg c Christian Med...

In this paper, we examine the relationship between pedagogy and technology in Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT) courseware. First, we will analyse available literature on second language pronunciation teaching and learning in order to derive some general guidelines for effective training. Second, we will present an appraisal of various CAPT systems with a view to establishing whet...

People are not very good at detecting deception in normal communication, and past efforts to train them to become better detectors have been mixed. This paper reports on a training study involving 177 military officers. In addition to developing and testing a training program to improve deception detection, this study also aimed to test different versions of a computer-based training system. Pa...

Replication or simulation of a real-world scenario for the purpose of training novices in a given profession is not new. For example, the use of cadavers in surgical education has been common practice for centuries. With the advent of computer-based technologies such as virtual reality, simulation has become even more useful as a training platform. Computer-based simulation training (CBST) is g...

Chip and system design can be made more efficient and attractive by using multimedia training techniques. In our case, these techniques are employed as a supplement of classical teaching. We point out the need for the development of own computer based training material (CBT). To reduce the high expenses of multimedia productions, we propose a universal Reference Model as a framework for CBTs in...

The Virtual Operating Room (VOR) is an operating room training environment capable of supporting team training for surgical procedures. One of the challenges of creating such a team training environment is assembling a suitable team of participants for a training session. In the VOR, simulated agents may be substituted for actual participants. This provides the ability to conduct training sessi...