Eight, three-day workshops were given in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam during June to July 2002. These workshops focused on practical aspects of how to use principles of pond dynamics to improve pond management and optimize fertilization efficiencies for natural food production in semi-intensive aquaculture systems. The centerpiece of the workshops was learning how to...

Background & Aims of the Study: Noise is one of the most important environmental pollutants. It is a global health problem, especially among industrial workers. Since there was little information about noise levels in small workshops in Qom city, this study aimed to evaluate noise in small workshops and compare it with national standards. Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional stu...

BACKGROUND A major focus of the medical school curriculum is to ensure medical students are well prepared prior to entering clinical rotations, which includes the compulsory surgical rotation. AIMS The objective of this research was to design and formally evaluate a set of real-life surgical workshops aimed at better preparing medical students for their clinical rotation in surgery. These wor...

Three workshops have been organised previously nder the auspices of the International Workshops on enotoxicity Testing (IWGT). Recognising the success f these earlier workshops, the International Associaion of Environmental Mutagen Societies (IAEMS) foralised these workshops in 2002 under the IAEMS mbrella and agreed that they would be held on a contining basis in conjunction with the Internati...

Our paper reports on the provision and evaluation of continuing professional development workshops to teach educators how to use Web 2.0 applications and services constructively in their teaching. We describe the design research approach that we took to developing the workshops and we present the research results that led us to re-design the workshop format to the point where we are now deliver...

Value management (VM) participants often encounter problems of lack of active participation and insufficient time and information in decision analysis. Group decision support systems (GDSS) have been proposed to overcome the above problems by improving efficiency and effectiveness of VM studies. In order to investigate the effect of using GDSS in VM workshops, three experimental studies togethe...

We report upon the design, content and feedback from an interactive, experiential series of Workshops in Healing for senior medical students. Fifty-six final year medical students enrolled in 2×3 h workshops designed around the core themes of 'physician know thyself' (Workshop 1) and 'confronting suffering' (Workshop 2). Of the 56 students who initially enrolled, 48 students completed both work...

The role of facilitated workshops in the development of information systems is widely acknowledged, but apart from some anecdotic evidence little objective information about the effectiveness of facilitated workshops is available. This paper describes a study within a single organization in which the effectiveness of requirements engineering in projects using facilitated workshops is compared w...

Continuing medical education (CME) activities have been shown to improve the capability and capacity of physicians for appropriate management of their patients. However, doubts have been raised about the role of workshops and seminars. This study is an attempt to find out whether workshops can improve the knowledge (capability) of practicing physician. Participants of 10 randomly selected works...

As part of the International Society for Computational Biology Student Council (ISCB-SC), Regional Student Groups (RSGs) have helped organise workshops in the emerging fields of bioinformatics and computational biology. Workshops are a great way for students to gain hands-on experience and rapidly acquire knowledge in advanced research topics where curriculum-based education is yet to be develo...