STUDY OBJECTIVE To validate the Virtual Basic Laparoscopic Skill Trainer (VBLaST-PT; the peg transfer task) for concurrent validity based on its ability to differentiate between novice, intermediate, and expert groups of gynecologists, and the gynecologists' subjective preference between the physical Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) system and the virtual reality system. DESIGN Pros...

This study aims to determine the validity, practicality, and effectiveness of Media Trainer Learning Engine Management System (EMS) know student responses use learning media trainer. The method used in this is educational research development model, including preliminary investigation, design realization/construction, test, evaluation, revision implementation. results showed that analysis user ...

AIMS World Health Organization data illustrate a worldwide re-emergence of interest in the scope of lay health workers for extending services to 'hard-to-reach' community groups. In the UK, the health trainer model of service delivery represents one such innovative way of working, first described in the White Paper Choosing Health: Making Healthier Choices Easier and more recently in the Kings ...

The paper describes hardware implementation of control system designs using the Quanser DC Motor Control Trainer (DCMCT). Toward this goal, students are guided to design control systems and verify their designs via simulation environments like MATLAB/Simulink. Then, they realize the control system designs by building op-amp circuits and validate the designs via the Quanser DC Motor Control Trai...

In this paper we present general theoretical models to improve the coordination between team members. We apply these models for passing, a coordination problem in soccer, and demonstrate the usefulness of these models. For the improvement of the team a trainer has been used to extract good passing behavior out of a set of games. The trainer improves this behavior and gives advice for the agents...

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2008: 34(3) Background Nurses undertaking intrauterine device/intrauterine system (IUD/IUS) training have extra hoops to jump through. Trainer and trainee benefit from being aware of these and both can learn from the process. This article shares the personal experience of one trainer/trainee pair, both of whom enjoyed the experience and who wish to share the...