Student-Generated Case Reports

Student Seminar Reports

The Effects of Student-Generated MCQs on their Academic Achievement

Introduction: Involvement of students in exam questions generating is a technique that has been recently used in order to increase learning and improve academic achievement. This study aimed to investigate the effects of multiple choice questions (MCQ) generating by students on their academic achievement in Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences in 2014-15 academic years. Methods: Thi...

INTERFERON INDUCED CARDIOMYOPATHY: CASE REPORTS

There are few reports concerning interferon induced myocardial dysfunction. A known case of multiple myeloma who was receiving interferon alpha (IFA) for 14 months was brought to the emergency room in frank: pulmonary edema. After treatment of heart failure and discontinuation of interferon alpha, he remained asymptomatic thereafter. Another case of chronic active hepatitis on IFA complain...

Testing a student generated hypothesis using student data

We describe an activity that allows students to experience the full process of a statistical investigation, from generating the research question, to collecting data and testing a hypothesis. Implementation of the activity is described both with and without use of clickers, handheld remotes that allow instant data collection.

Structural variation in generated health reports

We present a natural language generator that produces a range of medical reports on the clinical histories of cancer patients, and discuss the problem of conceptual restatement in generating various textual views of the same conceptual content. We focus on two features of our system: the demand for “loose paraphrases” between the various reports on a given patient, with a high degree of semanti...