This article describes the emerging role of educational multiuser virtual environments, specifically Second Life, in anatomical sciences education. Virtual worlds promote inquiry-based learning and conceptual understanding, potentially making them…
Papers in Medical Education
Medical Education papers in Education, A
-
-
This study intended to evaluate by clinical and imaging parameters the long-term predictability of osseointegrated implants inserted with specific simultaneous sinus lift approach in very atrophic posterior maxillas using a synthetic bioactive…
-
STUDY OBJECTIVES: We conducted a 5-year time study analysis of emergency department patient care efficiency. Our specific aims were (1) to calculate the main ED patient care time intervals to identify areas of inefficiency, (2) to measure the effect…
-
Psychology since World War II has been largely devoted to repairing weakness and understanding suffering. Towards that end, we have made considerable gains. We have a classification of mental illness that allows international collaboration, and…
-
BACKGROUND AND REVIEW CONTEXT: Evidence to support the proposition that learning together will help practitioners and agencies work better together remains limited and thinly spread. This review identified, collated, analysed and synthesised the…
-
Learning via online activities (e-learning) was introduced to facilitate existing face-to-face teaching to encourage more effective student preparation and then informed participation in an undergraduate physiology laboratory-based course. Active…
-
This paper examines BSc Physiotherapy students' experiences of developing their neurological observational and analytical skills using a blend of traditional classroom acitivities and computer-based materials at Univeristy of Birmingham. New…
-
Blended learning has become an increasingly popular form of e-learning, and is particularly suitable to the process of transitioning towards e-learning from traditional forms of learning and teaching. This paper describes the use of the blended…
-
While blogging is piquing the interest of mainstream media, youth, academic researchers, and entrepreneurial Silicon Valley, only a fraction of Internet users read blogs and many do not even know what the term means. Reports on how many people read…
-
Interprofessional education (IPE) has been promoted as a method to enhance the ability of health professionals to learn to work together. This article examines several approaches to learning that can help IPE fulfill its expectations. The first is…
-
PURPOSE: Assessing professionalism is hampered by varying definitions and these definitions' lack of a clear breakdown of the elements of professionalism into aspects that can be measured. Professionalism is multidimensional, so a combination of…
-
This paper describes a bootstrapping al- gorithm called Basilisk that learns high- quality semantic lexicons for multiple cate- gories. Basilisk begins with an unannotated corpus and seed words for each semantic category, which are then bootstrapped…
-
Entering its second decade, evidence based library and information practice (EBLIP), the now-preferred term for evidence based librarianship, can count some notable successes. In particular, the initiation and growth of an international open access…
-
The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is an emerging method of online teaching whose application in education, especially medical education, is largely uncharted territory. The successful implementation of MOOCs requires conceptual changes in…
-
Sometime around the middle of the past century, telephone executive Chester Barnard imported the term decision making from public administration into the business world. There it began to replace narrower terms, like "resource allocation" and…
-
Simulation for medical and healthcare applications, although still in a relatively nascent stage of development, already has a history that can inform the process of further research and dissemination. The development of mannequin simulators used…
-
Evidence-centered assessment design (ECD) is an approach to constructing educational assessments in terms of evidentiary arguments. This paper provides an introduction to the basic ideas of ECD, including some of the terminology and models that have…
-
BACKGROUND: Surgical practice is often perceived by students as a stressful and demanding lifestyle in which personal and family issues take low priority. For students to receive a more balanced view of surgical practice, we instituted a private…
-
The primary goal of medical education is to produce physicians who deliver high-quality health care. Recent calls for greater accountability in medical education and the development of outcomes research methodologies should encourage a new research…
-
Rose, M. & McClafferty, K. A. (2001). A call for the teaching of writing in graduate school. Educational Researcher, 30 (2), 27-33.
Papers in associated sub-disciplines
Sign up today - FREE
Mendeley saves you time finding and organizing research. Learn more
- All your research in one place
- Add and import papers easily
- Access it anywhere, anytime