OBJECTIVES Georgetown University has a student run Emergency Medical Services (EMS) organization with over 100 emergency medical technicians (EMTs). We set out to determine whether implementing an electronic patient care report (ePCR) system was associated with improved physical exam documentation. METHODS This study evaluated documentation of the physical exam on prehospital patient care rep...

PURPOSE Medical students are traditionally taught the physical exam as a comprehensive battery of maneuvers, yet they express uncertainty about which maneuvers are "core" and should be performed routinely on patients and which ones should be performed only when clinically indicated. The authors sought to determine whether educator consensus existed on the concept and the specifics of a core phy...

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Departamento de Estatística e Informática (DEINFO) Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE) Rua Dom Manoel de Medeiros, s/n, Dois Irmãos 52171-900 Recife/PE Brasil [email protected] Abstract. The growing interest for gamification in education is undeniable. However, the pedagogy behind it is overshadowed by promises of seducing students through the appeal of games. Despite the ra...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to explore the socio-ecological determinants of participation and dropout in organised sports in a nationally-representative sample of Australian children. METHODS Data were drawn from Waves 3 and 4 of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. In total, 4042 children aged 8.25 (SD = 0.44) years at baseline were included, with 24-months between Wav...