BACKGROUND Postgraduate training in general practice aims to develop clinical competence. However, little is known about its effect on trainees' development of clinical skills. AIM To assess the acquisition of clinical skills during a 3-year training programme and to evaluate whether a satisfactory level is achieved towards the end of training. DESIGN OF STUDY Cross-sectional design. SETT...

Make more knowledge even in less time every day. You may not always spend your time and money to go abroad and get the experience and knowledge by yourself. Reading is a good alternative to do in getting this desirable knowledge and experience. You may gain many things from experiencing directly, but of course it will spend much money. So here, by reading training the trainers teaching clinicia...

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 for education, training, and research is reviewed, tracing the motivations, evolution to commercial availability, and efforts toward assessment of eff...

1123 Accommodating Adolescent Sleep-Wake Patterns—Miller et al INTRODUCTION Obtaining adequate sleep is a challenge for those serving in the military and is especially difficult for individuals in military training environments. As today's military mission has grown increasingly complex, initial indoctrination and training curri-cula have responded by increasing the number of contact hours with...

BACKGROUND This study investigates approaches for translating evidence-based knowledge for use by fitness trainers. Specific questions were: Where do fitness trainers get their evidence-based information? What types of interventions are effective for translating evidence-based knowledge for use by fitness trainers? What are the barriers and facilitators to the use of evidence-based information ...

Social media nowadays influences almost every part of life. Particularly the educational context is characterized by an increased use of social and digital media in teaching and learning scenarios. Although most students are familiar with the use of social media, many students have problems when it comes to integrate social media in the learning processes of educational and professional context...

Life-long learning is more and more playing a key role for economical, personal and social success. Therefore the management and development of skills and knowledge is of premier importance in industry and, on the other hand, a major expense factor. So called examination management systems assist teachers and trainers through an automatic compilation of documents, in particular assessment tests...

“The Magic Stone” is a video game whose main aim is to help people with Down syndrome to improve communication skills that have been affected due to their disability, especially those related with prosody. The interface of the video game includes a number of elements to motivate the users to practice and train their pronunciation. The usability tests of the system have reported high degrees of ...

Background During specialty training for general practice, trainees acquire the required competencies through work-based learning. Previous small-scale and older studies suggest that the patient mix of general practitioner (GP) trainees differs from that of their trainers: trainees are exposed to more minor illnesses, and fewer chronic diseases and severe conditions, which may influence the dev...

Sports is an excellent way to increase many important values in life (including developing positive youth). This study aims improve and develop youth development through the skills programme that has been prepared. uses a quantitative method with pre-test–post-test control group design approach. In this study, researcher used sampling technique, namely purposive sampling, total of 30 students a...