given the increasing importance of entrepreneurship and its important role in students’ employment, this study was conducted to examine the effect of emotional intelligence on students' entrepreneurial intentions. a model was developed and was tested among undergraduate students of physical education faculty of tehran university. the model was tested by using the structural equation modeli...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to identify the sources of stress among dental students enrolled at Pharos University in Alexandria (PUA) - Egypt, and to explore the role of gender, level of undergraduate study and residence with parents on perceived stressors. MATERIALS AND METHODS A thirty-item self-reported modified version of the Dental Environment Stress (DES) questionnaire was ...

OBJECTIVES To find out the frequency of Type A and Type B personality among the students of Undergraduate Medical College. To find association between student year and personality type. METHODS A descriptive cross sectional study was conducted at Undergraduate Medical College, Rawalpindi from Sept. 2012 till Feb. 2013. Among 500 sample size, 100 students from each MBBS year were inducted by p...

BACKGROUND The curriculum of pathology is conventionally "taught" in a series of didactic lectures, which promotes learning by rote. In this study, case-based learning (CBL) was introduced to assess its effect on higher order cognition and problem-solving skills in undergraduate medical students. SUBJECTS AND METHODS The prescribed syllabus of hepatobiliary system was delivered to the undergr...

BACKGROUND Medical students engage in curricular and extracurricular activities, including undergraduate research (UR). The advantages, difficulties and motivations for medical students pursuing research activities during their studies have rarely been addressed. In Brazil, some medical schools have included undergraduate research into their curriculum. The present study aimed to understand the...

to study the prevalence of low back pain in medical and nursing undergraduate students in our institutes and its association with physical activity, smoking, depression, use of computer and other variables.it was a comparative cross sectional study carried out at two institutes of dow university of health sciences, karachi, pakistan during october to december 2011. two hundred and fifteen under...

Objective. To assess knowledge and awareness of oral cancer in the early identification of risk factors among undergraduate dental students. Methods. A total of 162 undergraduate (third, fourth, and fifth year) dental students at International Islamic University, Malaysia, were approached to participate in the study, and those who agreed were administered. A 9-item pretested questionnaire conta...

Participating in undergraduate research with mentorship from faculty may be particularly important for ensuring the persistence of women and minority students in science. Yet many life science undergraduates at research universities are mentored by graduate or postdoctoral researchers (i.e., postgraduates). We surveyed a national sample of undergraduate life science researchers about the mentor...

Clinical reasoning is a fundamental component of physiotherapists' clinical competence. However research examining how clinical reasoning is understood and developed in physiotherapy undergraduate courses is limited, particularly from the student's perspective. The aim of this study was to explore the current understanding of clinical reasoning held by final year undergraduate students, and how...

⎯ This paper presents a case study on the challenges of teaching state-of-the-art design to undergraduate students. The issues encountered are exposed specifically through the discussion of the development and teaching of a comprehensive first course in Very Large Scale Integrated Circuit (VLSI) design at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). Index Terms ⎯ Design Education, Undergraduate Education,...