This multi-site project extended course dissemination of the 10-session Behavioral Management of Auditory Hallucinations Course to U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) mental health outpatient settings. The VA Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) model and Rogers' theory of diffusion of innovations served as the theoretical framework. The course was taught to mental health profes...

Even in self-organized project-based learning, the instructors’ role re-mains critical, especially in the initial orientation provided to the students in order to grasp the educational goals and the various roles they may undertake to achieve them. In this paper we survey a few questions proposed to that purpose in a web-based software engineering course, together with relevant answers, we outl...

BACKGROUND Regular student evaluations at the Technical University Munich indicate the necessity for improvement of the clinical examination course. The aim of this study was to examine if targeted measures to restructure and improve a clinical examination course session lead to a higher level of student satisfaction as well as better self-assessment of the acquired techniques of clinical exami...

Diurnal temporal variations of emotional reactivity were investigated in relationship with fluctuations of psychophysiological state, evaluated by tonic autonomic activity. Neutral and unpleasant pictures, selected to constitute seven matched sets, were evaluated by 12 participants during seven sessions in the course of daytime. Skin conductance level (SCL) was recorded at the beginning of each...

BACKGROUND Interprofessional education (IPE) is a novel teaching and learning initiative where students of more than one health profession learn interactively together. However, despite its potential for improving interprofessional relationships, there is little information regarding the participation of student dietitians in IPE. The aim of this paper was to consider the reaction of student di...

In this paper a short (16 hours) newly designed course on practical software engineering is described. This course has been designed according to specific objectives (i.e. orientation to the practice, generality and adequacy to the current software engineering community trends) and focused on the requirements elicitation, documentation, and analysis topics. In the course an innovative tool for ...

The Final FRCS examination is said to be easy to fail but not difficult to pass. The two-week course held annually in Bristol over the last 6 years is designed primarily to aid candidates gain experience of examination conditions which they will meet when they take the examination at one of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons. Poor viva voce technique is one of the largest hurdles on the day and has...

As customers' needs have changed rapidly, market orientation has become a more primary focus of marketing literature. This study explores the strategies market-oriented suppliers use to accommodate customer needs. In addition, because buyer–seller relationships proceed through phases characterized by distinct behaviors, this study explores the relationship between market orientation and accommo...