Program comprehension remains a major bottleneck for software maintenance. When a programmer must understand a large legacy program whose documentation is scarce, out-ofdate, or irrelevant, she must browse its source code to build an effective mental model of its structure and behavior. But source code is far from an ideal representation for this task. I propose a system, DR. JONES, to help a p...

BACKGROUND The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requires residency programs to meet and demonstrate outcomes across 6 competencies. Measuring residents' competency in practice-based learning and improvement (PBLI) is particularly challenging. PURPOSE We developed an educational tool to meet ACGME requirements for PBLI. The PBLI template helped programs document qua...

A review of commercially available allied health educational management software tools was performed to evaluate their capacity to manage program data associated with a CAMPEP-accredited Therapy Physics Residency Program. Features of these software tools include: a) didactic course reporting and organization, b) competency reporting by topic, category and didactic course, c) student time manage...

The Uniied Modeling Language consists of a set of mostly graphi-cal description techniques for the speciication, modeling, and documentation of object-oriented systems. Based on the experience gained in using UML 1.0 for the development of a medium-sized, distributed Java program, we comment on its strengths and weaknesses. Furthermore, some proposals for extensions and changes are made.

OBJECTIVE To assess the knowledge and skills of residents in health maintenance and to measure the effectiveness of a new curriculum. DESIGN Longitudinal cohort study of first- and second-year pediatric residents over 2 academic years (AY). Residents in AY 1995-1996 (n = 32) comprised a control group. Residents in AY 1996-1997 (n = 36) served as a study group who completed a structured 12-wee...

In this paper we describe a programming environment for Scheme that supports elucidative programming. Scheme is a programming language in the Lisp family. Elucidative programming is a variant of literate programming. Literate programming represents the idea of structuring the program as fragments that are contained in an essay that documents the program understanding. Elucidative programming is...

In this article, the a2ac program written by the author is described. The program enables the use of PostScript fonts while typesetting texts in which accented letters are used. The font doesn’t need to contain the complete alphabet of a given language; merely the presence of the accents themselves (and not all of the accented characters) is sufficient. The configuration files of the a2ac progr...