AIM Ultrasound examination of the shoulder conducted by orthopaedic surgeons in the diagnosis and treatment of shoulder conditions is increasingly reported. Shoulder ultrasound is not a mandatory component of postgraduate orthopaedic training in the United Kingdom. The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of the shoulder ultrasound teaching workshop administered to postgraduate ort...

background: training teachers through educational programs are necessary for fulfilling health science teaching competencies, short-term workshop has variously reported as an influential training program. purpose: the purpose was to determine the effects of educational workshops on teaching performance of medical teachers. methods: a 29-item questionnaire containing demographic information, and...

Community development is generally considered to be a core component of social work practice and knowledge. Yet much professional social work education and discourse seems to relegate community development to the margins. This paper critically analyses the development of a community development subject within one particular Australian social work course. Particular attention is drawn to subject...

purpose: this research evaluates the quality of the “saraye ahle qalam” educational workshops held at the twenty-second tehran international book fair.design/methodology/approach: the applied research method was a descriptive-survey and the information gathering tool was a questionnaire which was randomly presented to 284 people participating in different educational workshops.findings: this re...

background: because of educational responsibilities and direct contact with people, health personnel (known as behvarzes in iran) need to be properly educated. therefore, educating and empowering the instructors of health centers (or behvarzi centers) regarding teaching and learning processes, such as selection of educational objectives and using appropriate educational technology, can positive...

BACKGROUND Physicians receive little education about unhealthy alcohol use and as a result patients often do not receive efficacious interventions. The objective of this study is to evaluate whether a free web-based alcohol curriculum would be used by physician educators and whether in-person faculty development would increase its use, confidence in teaching and teaching itself. METHODS Subje...

BACKGROUND Evidence-based medicine (EBM), a comprehensive method to support clinical decision making by using evidence, has been instrumental in clinical specialties but not yet in insurance medicine. AIMS We developed and evaluated a workshop on EBM for Dutch social insurance physicians who perform disability evaluations. METHODS Sixty-six social insurance physicians followed a 1-day intro...

BACKGROUND Residents and interns are recognized as important clinical teachers and mentors. Resident-as-teacher training programs are known to improve resident attitudes and perceptions toward teaching, as well as their theoretical knowledge, skills, and teaching behavior. The effect of resident-as-teacher programs on learning outcomes of medical students, however, remains unknown. An intervent...

UNLABELLED The two-arm Clinical Decisions/Diagnostic Workshop (CD/DW) approach to undergraduate medical education has been successfully used in Brazil. OBJECTIVE Present the CD/DW approach to the teaching of stroke, with the results of its pre-experimental application and of a comparative study with the traditional lecture-case discussion approach. METHOD Application of two questionnaires (...

Deductive refers to a more teacher-centered approach to instruction, where inductive For a clearer understanding of these methods visit Dr. Bilash's page titled The lesson I have attached below is an example of an inductive approach. In the western world, deductive teaching approaches are common in A teacher writes on the board a few examples of simple present and simple past. (Using Inductive ...