PURPOSE Educators rely on sufficient knowledge and skill to provide effective phonemic awareness instruction, an important component of early literacy instruction, particularly for children who experience difficulty learning to read. The purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare the phonemic awareness skill of several groups of educators, including speech-language pathologists (SLPs; n ...

Introduction: The intangible nature of soft skills makes it difficult for nursing academics to evaluate students' attainment these skills. Most the time, focus more on assessing knowledge and performance (hard skills) in clinical skill assessments. In focusing primarily hard competencies, profession has given inadequate attention developing their competencies. Thus, this study aimed explore aca...

Background: The clinical skill center (CSC) offers an opportunity for students and working clinicians to learn acquire skills by using artificially simulated process, which will subsequently improve patient care safety. To promote skill-based dental education, a CSC might be considered incorporate in undergraduate education. Objectives: explore the views of stakeholders about role centers This ...

drug and intravenous thrapy basic clinical skills in nursing students at the end of third year     haji hossaini f [1] *, sharifnia sh [2] , nazari r [3] , rezaei r [4] ,saatsaz s [5]     received: 9 sep, 2011 accepted: 20 oct, 2011     abstract:   background & aims : learning drugs and intravenous therapy are necessary for nursing students. this study was done with the aim of assessing the dru...

LEARNING CLINICAL SKILLS presents a novel experience for undergraduate students, particularly when it comes to preparing for skill assessment. Compared with the thousands of hours of practice believed to be necessary for the development of motor skill expertise (1), these students have significantly limited exposure time. Furthermore, effective clinicians combine procedural skills expertise wit...

Inherent difficulties in evaluating clinical competence of physicians has lead to the widespread use of subjective skill assessment techniques. Inspired by an analogy between medical procedure and spoken language, proven modeling methods in the field of speech recognition were adapted for use as objective skill assessment techniques. A generalized methodology using Markov Models (MM) was develo...

The suboptimal assessment of patients for signs of clinical deterioration and the subsequent response has led to the development of national guidelines and tools for tracking and responding to these situations. Such tools can provide guidance but ultimately the clinical skill, decision making and collaboration of professional practitioners determine optimal care. The use of track-and-trigger to...

Against a background of government calls for a radical change in the way the medical workforce is planned and trained, the concept of skill mix seeks to match clinical presentation to an intervention based on an appropriate level of skill and training. Health economics is not the only framework within which these changes can be analysed. However unless the economic issues are thought through cl...

Purpose: Educators rely on sufficient knowledge and skill to provide effective phonemic awareness instruction, an important component of early literacy instruction, particularly for children who experience difficulty learning to read. The purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare the phonemic awareness skill of several groups of educators, including speech-language pathologists (SLPs; n...