Lipscomb listed several formats of educational hearing conservation program (HCP) in his book and had compared their advantages and disadvantages (Lipscomb 1994). These formats included lecture series, movies, videos, and slide presentations, programmed learning booklets, computer assisted instruction (CAI), distribution of printed materials, individual conferences. Research indicates that all ...

OBJECTIVES To report the results of a project designed to develop and implement a prototype methodology for identifying candidate patient care quality measures for potential use in assessing the outcomes and effectiveness of graduate medical education in emergency medicine. METHODS A workgroup composed of experts in emergency medicine residency education and patient care quality measurement w...

For more than thirty years I have been applying cost-effectiveness and costbenefit analysis to education. When I began this work in about 1970, there were almost no cost-effectiveness studies reported in the literature, and the term was not found in education at all. The term cost-effectiveness is now commonly used in justifying specific educational interventions. It has also become standard pa...

Asynchronous discussion fora all the more become part of the educational process of distance education. The goal of this research is the study of the educational techniques of Brainstorming and Snowballing to their utilisation in the frame of a distance education forum, both as far as participation and creation of learning environment and also educational effectiveness are concerned. This resea...

Assessment is essential to establish the failure or success of any educational activity. To measure the acquisition of the knowledge covered by the activity and also to determine the effectiveness of the activity itself. The increasing adoption of new technologies is promoting the use of new types of activities in schools, like educational video games that in some cases are developed by the tea...

High fidelity simulation (HFS) has been described as an effective tool in medical training. COVID 19 led to educational gathering restrictions for both students (MS) and Physician Assistant (PAS). In response, we offered MS PAS education through a virtual HFS (VS) experience.