BACKGROUND During their specialty training, Dutch GP trainees work at a GP under the supervision of a GP trainer. Research suggests that the patient mix of GP trainees differs from that of their trainers. Receptionists assign patients to either the trainee or the trainer, thereby influencing the patient mix of the trainees. The decision to which doctor to assign is complex and depends on the la...

The Virtual Terrorism Response Academy is a reusable virtual learning environment to prepare emergency responders to deal with high-risk, low-frequency events in general, terrorist attacks in particular. The principal learning strategy is a traditional one: apprenticeship. Trainees enter the Academy and travel through its halls, selecting different learning experiences under the guidance of ins...

A computer application that supports the teaching and learning of sporting techniques is presented. It was developed as a tool to assist sports trainers in identifying, analyzing, relating, and evaluating the learning of sporting techniques. At times trainers fail to visualize all the details of an athlete’s technical gestures, mainly because of the speed of the movements. Based on this concept...

Increasing emphasis on maintaining a healthy lifestyle has led many individuals to seek advice on exercise from personal trainers. There are few studies to date that evaluate personal trainer education, practice trends, and injuries they have seen while training clients. A survey was distributed to personal trainers using Survey Monkey® (Palo Alto, CA, USA) with 605 personal trainers accessing ...

BACKGROUND Audit is a criterion for training in general practice, and registrars are reliant on their trainers' teaching of basic audit methods. Their ability to teach this had been assumed, but registrars' projects submitted as part of summative assessment offered an opportunity to test this. AIM To test trainers' knowledge of basic audit methods. Their knowledge was based on an ability to r...

The Tactical Language and Culture Training System (TLCTS) that is an interactive learning platform that helps people quickly acquire communication skills in foreign languages and cultures. It integrates serious game technology and intelligent tutoring system technology. Learners alternate between working on interactive lessons that teach communication skills and interactive games that require l...

CONTEXT Certified athletic trainers who serve as Approved Clinical Instructors (ACIs) in the collegiate setting are balancing various roles (eg, patient care and related administrative tasks, clinical education). Whether this balancing act is associated with role strain in athletic trainers has not been examined. OBJECTIVE To examine the degree of, and contributing factors (eg, socialization ...