Teachers wishing to offer lessons in nature may hold back for fear of leaving students keyed up and unable to concentrate in subsequent, indoor lessons. This study tested the hypothesis that lessons in nature have positive-not negative-aftereffects on subsequent classroom engagement. Using carefully matched pairs of lessons (one in a relatively natural outdoor setting and one indoors), we obser...

In a chronic disease, traineeship in the methodology to be used to treat oneself is a key part of success from the beginning and during long-term treatment. In chronic peritoneal dialysis (PD), peritonitis emphasizes, in a certain way, the result of the apprenticeship. We set out to evaluate the relationship between the number of PD training lessons and the frequency of peritonitis. According t...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to survey the awareness of faculty (F) and students (S) on 'good teaching' and to analyze an example of good lesson, finally to identify the requirements of 'good teaching' in medical education. METHODS Quantitative and qualitative methods were applied simultaneously. First, survey using a questionnaire was analyzed by frequency analysis and verified using...

The Undergraduate Medical Education for the 21st Century (UME-21) project evolved from two prior projects that were aimed at studying the interface between managed care and undergraduate medical education. The project provided funding for 18 US medical schools to demonstrate how they would produce graduates who eventually could practice in a rapidly changing health care environment. Medical sch...

background: the purpose of this work is to discover and analyze errors and incidents in some radiotherapy centers, and to introduce methods that could reduce their occurrences, especially those which had happened due to the use of improper and inadequate equipment. this work is a first step toward clarifying the role of education in a risk-conscious culture, and changing the attitude of radioth...

conclusions the educational framework provided by im for at training improved attitude and behavioral beliefs that can facilitate the adoption of at behavior and decreased clbp. results significant differences were recorded before and after intervention (p < 0.001) for the model constructs of intention, perceived risk, direct attitude, behavioral beliefs, and knowledge in both groups. direct at...

CONTEXT The recurrence of past security breaches in healthcare showed that lessons had not been effectively learned across different healthcare organisations. Recent studies have identified the need to improve learning from incidents and to share security knowledge to prevent future attacks. Generic Security Templates (GSTs) have been proposed to facilitate this knowledge transfer. The objectiv...

In this paper we look at the lessons learned from several large-scale real world deployments of the I-Help agent-based peer-help learning support system. These lessons divide into two main categories: software engineering lessons and usage lessons. In the deployments of I-Help to date we have learned a number of important things about the technology needed to support widespread use of a distrib...

Nelson RK, Chesler NC, Strang KT. Development of concept-based physiology lessons for biomedical engineering undergraduate students. Adv Physiol Educ 37: 176–183, 2013; doi:10.1152/advan.00038.2012.— Physiology is a core requirement in the undergraduate biomedical engineering curriculum. In one or two introductory physiology courses, engineering students must learn physiology sufficiently to su...

Knowledge about racism is a critical component of educational curricula and contemporary race relations. To examine children's responses to learning about racism, European American (Study 1; N= 48) and African American (Study 2; N= 69) elementary-aged children (ages 6-11) received history lessons that included information about racism experienced by African Americans (racism condition), or othe...