Reaching First-Year Students During Orientation Week

Discordance of self-reported career goals of first-year medical students during admission interviews and prematriculation orientation.

A Profile of First-year Students' Learning Preferences and Study Orientation in Mathematics

This paper reports on action research activities during 2000-2001, involving first-year engineering students in an extended study programme of the School of Engineering at the University of Pretoria. Students in the participating group were enrolled for a support course aimed at facilitating the fundamental concepts underpinning a study in calculus as well as complementing the development of pe...

Reaching behavior in preterm infants during the first year of life: a systematic review.

The aim of this systematic literature review was to examine and discuss studies that investigated reaching in preterm infants during the first year of life. Databases were searched using keywords such as reaching, grasping, preterm, and premature, in addition to specific terms from the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) (motor skills, infant, movement, premature birth, hands) regardless of year of...

Professional Image Perceptions in First-year Nursing Students

Background: Determining the professional image perceptions of the first-year nursing students who have recently chosen the nursing profession is of great importance in delineating the profession profile. The present study aimed to determine the image perception of first-year nursing students and its related factors. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional research was conducted in the Fall s...

Oral piercings among first-year university students.

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to examine oral piercings among first-year university students. STUDY DESIGN First-year university students in 2002 were invited to a dental examination (n = 234; 49 men and 185 women). Students with piercings formed the study group and the rest served as controls. The methods included decayed, missing, and filled teeth (DMF) index, stimulated salivary flow ...