the aim of this study was to compare three approaches of medical parasitological course. this cross sectional study carried out in 94 medical and pharmacy students. lecturer based learning, problem based learning, and combined approaches were used for teaching the parasitological course. kappa and spss16 were used to analysis. 82.9% of students were interested in lecturer based learning, 64.9% ...

Optimal medical care is critically dependent on clinicians' skills to make the right diagnosis and to recommend the most appropriate therapy, and acquiring such reasoning skills is a key requirement at every level of medical education. Teaching clinical reasoning is grounded in several fundamental principles of educational theory. Adult learning theory posits that learning is best accomplished ...

Learning to use an object-oriented framework is a hard task. However, little work has been done to develop effective techniques to reduce the effort and time taken to teach how to use a framework. This paper presents an ongoing work on a Case-Based Teaching approach following an active learning process where the learner is involved in resolving exercises based on framework instantiation examples.

This paper describes how a computer program can support learning by retrieving and presenting relevant stories drawn from a video case base. Although this is an information retrieval problem, it is not a problem that fits comfortably within the classical IR model (Salton & McGill, 1983) because in the classical model the computer system is too passive. The standard model of IR assumes that the ...

the writing skill is often perceived as the most difficult language skill since it requires a higher level of productive language control than other skills (celce-murcia & olshtain, 2000). the present study introduced a discourse-based framework for the teaching of writing on the basis systemic functional linguistics (sfl). to this end, 60 students majoring in teaching english as a foreign ...

background: simulation teaching means recreating clinical scenario for training / evaluation. aim: to expose postgraduates to simulation / didactic lecture for postpartum hemorrhage (pph) management; to assess which method was more effective. methods: present prospective study was conducted in obstetrics gynecology department of rural tertiary center of northern india.  twenty postgraduates wer...

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The need for evidence based teaching has become an important ideology for nurse educators who are frequently encouraged to expand their teaching strategies based on recent advances in technology and student learning styles. Traditional lecture is often preferred by students, yet the literature encourages case study methodology for the development of critical thinking. A pilot study was conducte...