Abstract Background Applications to surgical training are declining. Whilst early introduction specialities may develop interest, medical schools do not place enough emphasis on the growing trend towards performing laparoscopic procedures. We hypothesised that exposing students laparoscopy would stimulate an interest in pursuing a career. Methods Clinical were randomised into two groups: Laparo...

Objectives: This study aims to assess the feedback of session on professionalism and ethics using various teaching-learning (TL) methods among 1st year undergraduate medical students. Methods: was a cross-sectional conducted one hundred twenty-four students (2019–2020 batch) divided into three batches. They attended 3 h each day module TL such as an interactive lecture, role play, group discuss...

OBJECTIVE Although there is general consensus that psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) are treated with psychotherapy, the effectiveness of most psychotherapeutic modalities remains understudied. In this treatment series of 16 patients dually diagnosed with PNES and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), we evaluated the effect of prolonged exposure therapy (PE) on reduction of PNES. Seco...

The paper describes how multimedia technology and cooperative learning are used to teach an online course at the junior level covering signal processing techniques in communications. Students study online presentations enhanced by multimedia animations and perception quizzes, discuss problems using an asynchronous conferencing system, and meet weekly on campus for a cooperative laboratory sessi...

This course will provide attendees with the technical information needed to create their own compelling, scalable, interactive VR applications using VR Juggler. The course begins with the foundations needed for building VR Juggler applications. It follows with a session on VR Juggler scalability from shared memory high-end workstations to clusters of commodity PCs. The following sessions focus ...

In introductory computer programming courses, students experience a range of emotions. Students often anxiety and frustration when they encounter difficulties in writing programs. Continued can discourage from pursuing engineering computing careers. Although prior research has shown how emotions affect students’ motivation learning, little is known about courses. this qualitative study first-ye...

cytomorphological changes of mitomycin c on urothelial cells may be misinterpreted as a neoplastic process. a 60-year old male patient who was given an eight-week course of intravesical mitomycin c due to non-invasive low grade transitional cell carcinoma. during his follow-up care, the findings of a urine cytology exam were as follows: nuclear enlargement of cells, wrinkled nuclear membranes, ...