UNLABELLED The Joint Commission continues to emphasize the importance of medication reconciliation in all practice settings. Pharmacists and student pharmacists are uniquely trained in this aspect of patient care, and can assist with keeping accurate and complete medication records through patient interview in the outpatient setting. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to quantify and d...

Data are reported on a variety of cognitive tasks from 62 college students and 362 nonstudent adults between 20 and 79 years of age. The goals of the project were as follows: (a) to investigate the validity of the practices of using college students and adults over age 65 in studies of cognitive aging, (b) to examine the influence of a variety of background variables on age trends in cognitive ...

This paper presents architecture for the exchange of learner’s model information between e-learning systems on the Web. The present work is part of a current project intended to present an adaptive content associated to a particular student profile, the AdaptWeb Project. The Web Service technology is used since it allows the easy communication between Web applications through the HTTS protocol....

The purpose of this study was to determine if modeling school and classroom effects was necessary in estimating passage reading growth across elementary grades. Longitudinal data from 8367 students in 2989 classrooms in 202 Reading First schools were used in this study and were obtained from the Progress Monitoring and Reporting Network maintained by the Florida Center for Reading Research. Ora...

INTRODUCTION Setting, maintaining and re-evaluation of assessment standard periodically are important issues in medical education. The cut-off scores are often "pulled from the air" or set to an arbitrary percentage. A large number of methods/procedures used to set standard or cut score are described in literature. There is a high degree of uncertainty in performance standard set by using these...

The ability to identify common benign and malignant skin lesions is augmented by the use of dermoscopy and is relevant to medical students pursuing careers in medicine, surgery, and subspecialties [1]. Medical students who received dermoscopy instruction as an adjunct to their skin examination education were more likely to examine a patient’s skin during physical examination when evaluated one ...

It is proved that if the multivariate Student t-statistic based on i.i.d. symmetric random vectors is asymptotically standard normal, then these random vectors are in the generalized domain of attraction of the normal law. Uniform integrability is also considered, even in the absence of symmetry.

Problem-based learning (PBL) can be described as a learning environment where the problem drives the learning. This technique usually involves learning in small groups, which are supervised by tutors. It is becoming evident that PBL in a small-group setting has a robust positive effect on student learning and skills, including better problem-solving skills and an increase in overall motivation....