BACKGROUND Despite growing concern about the potential impact of managed care on the physician-patient relationship, efforts to enhance the quality of communication between practicing clinicians and their patients have been limited. OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of a 1-day educational workshop. DESIGN Clinician self-assessment of interviewing skills measured immediately before an...

ABSTRACT Fifty-four clients (13to 52-years-old) in an Appalachian sheltered,workshopww9,re,administered the Slosson Drawing Coordination Test ODCT) and the BeWder Visual Motor Gestalt Test. Twenty-nine Ss were labeled possibly brain damaged by the SDCT, and 17 Ss by the M. Hutt scoring system for the Bender-Gestalt. Two psychologists using all available data and clinical judgment classified onl...

Health professionals play crucial roles on the self-confidence of nursing mothers and their knowledge of breastfeeding. The aim of this study was a comparison of two different breastfeeding workshops on participants' knowledge, attitude, practice (KAP) and related factors. A cross-sectional study took place in Fetal and neonatal Research Centre (2011- 2012). The intervention composed of two dif...

health professionals play crucial roles on the self-confidence of nursing mothers and their knowledge of breastfeeding. the aim of this study was a comparison of two different breastfeeding workshops on participants’ knowledge, attitude, practice (kap) and related factors. a cross-sectional study took place in fetal and neonatal research centre (2011- 2012). the intervention composed of two dif...

In 2013, the Methodology in Medical Education Research Committee ran a symposium on "Research in Medical Education" as part of its ongoing faculty development activities. The symposium aimed to introduce to participants educational research methods with a specific focus on research in medical education. Thirty-five participants were able to choose from workshops covering qualitative methods, qu...

This workshop follows a successful series of workshops on the same topic: A3H at UM’07, in Corfu, AH’06, in Dublin, at AIED’05, in Amsterdam, at AH’04, in Eindhoven, and at WBE’04 in Innsbruck. The current workshop focuses on the issues of design, implementation and evaluation of general Adaptive and Adaptable (Educational) Hypermedia, with special emphasis on three major trends in web authorin...

Prior to the Anthrax outbreaks of 2001, a need for better training of medical, emergency-response, and public health personnel in responding to mass casualties from terrorist incidents had been identified [1]. Last year, Catlett et al. [2] reported that educational interventions have been more effective when they have combined interactive techniques, such as case discussion, simulated patients,...

A dramatic shift in chemical engineering undergraduate education has been proposed based on NSF-funded, discipline-wide workshops that took place in 2003. This has led to a broad consensus regarding foundations for chemical engineering undergraduate education in the future based on the organizing principles of (1) molecular transformations; (2) multiscale analysis, and (3) the systems approach....

There is an acute shortage of health-care workers in Sudan. The Academy of Health Sciences was created to prepare health-care professionals in order to restore and ultimately maintain the requisite skills-mix. This necessitates transformative education using a context-relevant curricula. A context-relevant curriculum is one that is feasible, consistent with the mission of the educational instit...

Resident-as-teacher courses are pretty common in Western medical schools however they are a rarity in Asian and developing countries. The current report is a scholarly analysis of a three day orientation program for senior residents in order to improve their functioning by providing new template either for supplementing basic workshops for faculty or to advocate a change in system. The experien...