PhD. Postgraduate student, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo — Escola Paulista de Medicina (Unifesp-EPM), São Paulo, Brazil. PhD. Attending physician, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo — Escola Paulista de Medicina (Unifesp-EPM), São Paulo, Brazil. PhD. Professor, ...

1 Intern, Internal Medicine, Santa Casa da Misericórdia do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil 2 MSc in Gastroenterology; PhD Student, Postgraduate Course in Internal Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ); Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine Clinic, Universidade Gama Filho (UGF) and Fundação Técnico-Educacional Souza Marques, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil 3 Pneumologist...

[Purpose] A major issue in physical/occupational therapist education is the improvement of students' clinical techniques. In this study, we introduced an education system using an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE), and made an attempt at standardization of its evaluation. [Subjects] The subjects were 227 students in the classes of 2008 to 2010 who enrolled at our university betwe...

We assessed doctors' knowledge on laws and recommendations regarding fitness to drive in certain medical conditions by a questionnaire survey. A total of 646 doctors consisting of 400 general practitioners and 246 hospital doctors of all grades were circulated with the questionnaire. The survey was anonymous so non-responders could not be re-circulated. The response rate was 26% general practit...

This study reports on students’ and lecturers’ perceptions of using wikis as a platform for conducting assessed group projects in two postgraduate Master’s level university courses. The results highlight the fact that student attitudes to group work, in general, are mixed, and that the use of wikis per se is not enough to improve these attitudes. On the positive side, students found wikis usefu...

361 Postgraduate Student, Clinical Associate Professor, Professor and Chairman, e Assistant Professor, g Associate Professor, Department of Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, Kyung Hee University Professor and Chairman, Department of Dentistry, School of Medicine, Ajou University. Director, Department of Craniofacial Orthodontics, Childrens’ Hospital of Phildelphia. Corresponding author: Seong-...

Dr. Scalia is an orthodontic postgraduate student, Dr. Perinetti is a Research Fellow, Dr. Locatelli is a Clinical Instructor, and Dr. Contardo is an Assistant Professor, Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Trieste, Piazza Ospitale 1, Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia 34129, Italy. Dr. Locatelli is also in the private practice of orthodontics in ...

Petr Hájek is a renowned Czech logician, whose record in mathematical logic spans half a century. His results leave a permanent imprint in all of his research areas, which can be roughly delimited as set theory, arithmetic, fuzzy logic and reasoning under uncertainty, and information retrieval; some of his results have enjoyed successful applications. He has, throughout his career, worked at th...

This paper presents a preliminary analysis of contributions to the electronic discussion board for a postgraduate computing course. The data covers four different classes over a two year period, and will be extended to six classes by the time of the ICCE2002 conference. After attemp ting unsuccessfully to relate the levels of student contributions to other data about the students (such as age, ...