OBJECTIVE To investigate patient perceptions and the impact of participating in the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) long case oral examination. METHOD Immediately following the RCPSC exam, participating psychiatric patients completed a Participant Impact Questionnaire. We combined results for 2002 and 2003 from both the western and eastern sites. RESULTS Overall, ...

INTRODUCTION Today's physicians must demonstrate both professionalism and leadership skills in order to succeed in largely team-based healthcare environments. The purpose of this study was to determine if professionalism attributes, leadership style, and leadership style adaptability are associated with academic performance among first-year students early in their medical curriculum. MATERIAL...

Like the sequence of words in written language, comic book page layouts direct images into a deliberate reading sequence. Conventional wisdom would expect that comic panels follow the order of text: left-to-right and down - a "Z-path" - though several layouts can violate this order, such as Gestalt groupings of panels that deny a Z-path of reading. To examine how layouts pressure readers to cho...

BACKGROUND Poor medication prescribing skills among residents have been widely reported. METHODS We implemented a three-stage prescribing curriculum with eight interns in an urban family medicine residency. Clinical pharmacy faculty delivered two lectures, attended hospital rounds, and coprecepted in clinic. Evaluations were done by a written exam and clinical assessment. RESULTS All eight ...

background: it is known that basic science and general courses play a vital role in training of medical students. the medical students' comprehensive basic science examination (cbse) scores seem to be a potential tool for predicting their comprehensive pre-internship examination (cpie) scores. purpose: to evaluate the predictive validity of medical students' cbse scores for predicting their cpi...

The main theme of this essay is human action, from the viewpoint of building machines that can both understand human actions and have the ability of performing similar actions. The “Human activity language” (HAL) [Guerra-Filho, Fermuller and Aloimonos 2005] serves the role of a concrete proposal anchoring this discussion. The wider framework of the problem is initially explored. Different pathw...

and Problem Statement This document is a tutorial on research problems in distributed control for energy systems. It also includes a critique of two examples papers from the area.