Despite enthusiasm for the educational potential of the World Wide Web, few dental educators use the new opportunities offered by this medium beyond the presentation of textual information. Based on this observation, we have decided to design our own interactive Web-based 3D crown preparation course. The course objective is to provide dental students with fundamental didactic and technical know...

the newly administered iranian ph.d. program entrance exam (ppee) is supposed to have had different washback effects on university curriculums. this qualitative study examined the effects of the new tefl ppee on the applicants’ study plans and strategies from the points of view of both iranian university instructors and applicants. to this end, we conducted in-depth interviews with 10 experienc...

dent learning by stating plainly: "The body of research on the impacts of the college academic experience is extensive. The strongest general conclusion [is that] the greater the student's involvement or engage ment in academic work or in the academic experience of college, the greater his or her level of knowledge acquisition and general cognitive development" (p. 616). This arti cle contribut...

Objectives/Hypothesis Residency preparation courses (RPCs) have become a widely adopted practice to ease the transition of medical students into residency, but these often lack training in skills expected subspecialty interns. To fill this gap, simulation-based curriculum otolaryngology (ORL) was implemented at University Michigan Medical School. The aimed improve confidence and perceived abili...

OBJECTIVE This retrospective study investigated the impact of a required vs an optional remake requirement on student performance in a compounding laboratory course in which students' compounded preparations were analyzed. METHODS The analysis data for several preparations made by students over a 3-year period were compared for differences in the analyzed content of the active principal ingre...