This article aims to describe student nurse experiences of clinical practice through their reflections. Forty reflections on clinical practice in a pediatric department were conducted at a tertiary hospital. Student nurses wrote reflections which were then thematically analyzed. Analysis was founded on the following: First, situations of nursing care in medical and surgical pediatrics; Second, ...

not indicate the very elementary nature of this book. This very remarkable book endeavours to cover, in 94 not very closely printed pages, the whole of academic psychology, the views of the principal schools of psychopathology, symptom formation, psychosomatic medicine, the principles of the central nervous system and applied psychology. Whilst the success with which this aim has been achieved ...

WINSTON CHURCHILL said “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to have changed often” (4). For educators, change is a constant. We adapt our teaching constantly to new discoveries in education and science, new students, and new technologies. However, current reform efforts are driving significant change at a rapid pace (1, 2, 5, 17, 20). The movement of K–12 and undergraduate education towar...

Current advanced degree and research training programs no longer attract adequate numbers of students. The present system of dental education severely limits the appeal of these programs due to overcrowded curricula and clinical components that operate in an environment segregated from the academic/research enterprise. To make research-oriented education/training programs more accessible and in...

Good teachers know their students, and exploit this knowledge to adapt or optimise their instruction. Traditional teachers know their students because they interact with them face-to-face in classroom or one-to-one tutoring sessions. In these settings, they can build student models, i.e., by exploiting the multi-faceted nature of human-human communication. In distance-learning contexts, teacher...

Today's medical students are being confronted with ethical situations of far greater complexity than were their predecessors and yet the medical education system does little to prepare students for the ethical dilemmas which they inevitably face when entering the hospital environment. The following article addresses the issues surrounding a case where a patient has told a student in confidence ...

Andes, an intelligent tutoring system for Newtonian physics, provides an environment for students to solve quantitative physics problems. Andes provides immediate correct/incorrect feedback to each student entry during problem solving. When a student enters an equation, Andes must (1) determine quickly whether that equation is correct, and (2) provide helpful feedback indicating what is wrong w...

Both human and automated tutors must infer what a student knows and plan future actions to maximize learning. Though substantial research has been done on tracking and modeling student learning, there has been significantly less attention on planning teaching actions and how the assumed student model impacts the resulting plans. We frame the problem of optimally selecting teaching actions using...