This study compared the effectiveness of two surgical units in a tertiary care teaching hospital in performing laparoscopic cholecystectomy procedures from a hospital administration perspective. One surgical unit that was first to undertake laparoscopic procedures in the hospital had more experience than the other. The effectiveness was measured in terms of Average Postoperative Hospital Stay t...

The design of traditional network course is developed by its specialized teachers and technicians to achieve its teaching goal. This miniature network class might be called as one-off and non-renewable resource. Nowadays, along with the mature of computer component technology, the development of this manual workshop-like is obsolete. This paper discusses the development process of the network c...

The Third Workshop on Teaching Computational Science, within the International Conference on Computational Science, provides a platform for discussing innovations in teaching computational sciences at all levels and contexts of higher education. This editorial provides an introduction to the work presented during the sessions.

City University of Hong Kong has initiated a studio approach to teaching, starting with modules in introductory science and engineering. Studio teaching replaces the traditional large-group lecture, small-group tutorial and separate laboratory work with an integrated approach. It utilises computer-based teaching materials that emphasise multimedia and interactive learning. This paper describes ...

background: morning reports (mrs) are commonly used as an efficient technique in medical education. this study was intended to assess the developmental process following iranian definable standards in the internal medicine department, imam reza general hospital, mashhad, iran. methods: following an initial one-month assessment through direct observation of morning reports held in imam reza hosp...

Introduction: The paper focuses on the innovative teaching methods for clinical training in midwifery, suggests their advantages and disadvantages, and demonstrates their use in the teaching process by means of examples. The traditional teaching approach still persists and exploits standard methods of learning androte memorization, whereby a teacher explains the topic, and assigns students lear...

An education policy forum by distinguished scientisteducators in Science [1] revealed their frustration that science education is not changing in response to what we know about learning [2, 3]. There seems to be a lack of interest by or incentive for most research-active educators and others to embrace active-learning approaches in their teaching. As one who adopted a problem-based learning (PB...

Academic audit emerged in the UK circa 1990 and is being applied in a growing number of venues across the world. This paper describes the variant, to be called “Education Quality Audit,” applied by Hong Kong’s University Grants Committee (UGC) in the mid 1990s and again 2002. The last section briefly compares this variant with other academic audit lineages and with the direct evaluation of educ...