Today, international communication plays a vital role for facing the global challenges and English as Lingua Franca is quite helpful to serve purpose of with people from different countries. In pesantren world, very essential teach “English-Tren” can be way asssisting santri develop santris’ speaking skill. Pesantren, branch Specific Purposes (ESP), designed meet target Pesantren in improving S...

BACKGROUND Competence in transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) is unrelated to traditional measures of TTE competence, such as duration of training and number of examinations performed. This study aims to explore aspects of validity of an instrument for structured assessment of echocardiographic technical skills. METHODS The study included 45 physicians with three different clinical levels of ...

Bridging the 'know-do gap' is an enormous challenge for global health practitioners. They must be able to understand local health dynamics within the operational and social contexts that engender them, test and adjust approaches to implementation in collaboration with communities and stakeholders, interpret data to inform policy decisions, and design adaptive and resilient health systems at sca...

BACKGROUND Mobile learning (m-learning) has becoming very popular in education due to the rapidly advancing technology in our society. The potentials of the mobile applications should be used to enhance the education process. Few mobile applications have been designed to complement the study of physical therapy skills for physiotherapy students. The aim of this study was to investigate whether ...

According to the Academy of Finland and Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation, there are two prominent driving forces in today’s global operating environment. Th e fi rst is the trend towards increasing mobility; the second is the growing interdependence of diff erent parts of the world, their increasing interaction and cooperation in the economy, production, social de...

OBJECTIVE Recent studies have recognised that the communication skills learned in the training environment are not always transferred back into the clinical setting. This paper reports a study which investigated the potential of clinical supervision in enhancing the transfer process. METHODS A randomised controlled trial was conducted involving 61 clinical nurse specialists. All attended a 3-...

College graduates are increasingly expected to collaborate across disciplines in the modern workplace. In addition to possessing content knowledge, this requires them to be adept in professional skills, including written and verbal communication skills, team building and leadership, and to have an understanding of relevant global issues. A growing awareness exists among educators for the need t...

OBJECTIVE This study explored and compared medical students' attitudes toward communication skills and empathic tendency before and after communication skills training. METHODS Fifty-nine first-year students voluntarily completed a questionnaire consisting of the Communication Skills Attitudes Scale and the Empathic Tendency Scale before and after training. K-means cluster analysis and Studen...

Coping-skills training (CST) and cue-exposure treatment (CET) are two relatively new approaches in alcoholism treatment. With CST, the therapist tries to strengthen the patient's skills in coping with situations associated with a high risk of drinking. These skills can be specific to certain high-risk situations or involve general social skills. Specific CST treatment approaches include relapse...