Introduction: Feedback cards are recommended as a feasible toolfor structured written feedback delivery in clinical education whileeffectiveness of this tool on the medical students’ performanceis still questionable. The purpose of this study was to comparethe effects of structured written feedback by cards as well asverbal feedback versus verbal feedback alone on the clinicalperformance of med...

This paper examines reports on how care is administered by Family Health Teams (FHT) doctors and nurses in four state capitals. It identifies issues relating to priority actions, routine activities and the association between the professional profile and how selected activities are performed, in an attempt to ascertain how far these approximate to the comprehensive approach to primary health ca...

More than 2 million children in the United States live in military families and 90 000 infants are born to these families each year. Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents, third edition,1 a publication of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), outlines an approach to comprehensive care for the individual child in the context of his or her fam...

BACKGROUND Improving quality of primary care is a key focus of international health policy. Current quality improvement efforts place a large focus on technical, clinical aspects of quality, but a comprehensive approach to quality improvement should also include interpersonal care. Two methods of improving the quality of interpersonal care in primary care have been proposed. One involves the fe...

BACKGROUND This mixed methods study was designed to explore the acceptability and impact of feedback of team performance data to primary care interdisciplinary teams. METHODS Seven interdisciplinary teams were offered a one-hour, facilitated performance feedback session presenting data from a comprehensive, previously-conducted evaluation, selecting highlights such as performance on chronic d...

Previous literature on teachers’ feedback practices has revealed that a strong effect students’ academic performance. Nevertheless, is challenge for teachers to use in teaching and the learning environment due time constraints inability provide students with they need self-improvement. Furthermore, are often unsure whether given will meet needs as have work improving themselves after receiving ...

As a result from modeling cortical processes of self-organization occuring during speech acquisition, a comprehensive neural model of speech production has been developed by using self-organizing neural networks and feedforward neural networks. This model is capable of generating acoustic speech signals and sensory feedback signals by using a high quality 3-dimensional articulatory-acoustic spe...