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What every pediatrician should know about liver transplantation

Liver transplantation is the treatment of choice for children with end-stage liver disease.  Improvement in outcomes (allograft and patient survival) has led to widespread use of pediatric LT worldwide. This success is due to improvement in patient selection, transplant surgery, anesthesia/postoperative care and immunosuppression management. This review will focus on different aspects of LT whi...

Diagnosis at Scale: Detecting the Expertise Level and Knowledge States of Lifelong Professional Learners

Our research is about identifying gaps in the knowledge of professional software developers, as part of an ongoing project to provide tools to support their lifelong learning needs. We developed metrics that when applied to programmers’ online activities in Stack Overflow allowed us to determine the knowledge states of users on specific topics indicating what each user knows they know and their...

Changing Teaching Practice: Strategies and Barriers1

There is now a considerable amount of empirical research on teaching and learning in higher education that should provide a guide to effective teaching practice. In particular there is an impressive body of evidence on how teaching methods and curriculum design affects deep, autonomous, and reflective learning. Yet most faculty are largely ignorant of this scholarship, and instructional practic...

Learning Needs Assessment in Bachelor of Nursing: a Qualitative Research

Introduction: One of the most important components of educational technology is educational needs assessment. This study tried to answer the question of, what the real needs of bachelor nursing students based on their experience? and what themes the refer to as their learning needs. Method: A phenomenology research was performed to study the experience of students regarding their learning nee...

Melanoma and pregnancy: what every woman needs to know about the risks, prognosis.