Increasing student numbers have encouraged universities to take greater interest in aids to conventional teaching methods. Television is establishing itself in this field, particularly when applied to clinical medicine, an aspect recently reviewed by Day (1972). In rheumatology this medium is little used at present. In his recent survey of teaching aids used in medical schools in Europe, Wood (...

This article identifies and addresses opportunities for and challenges to current school-based sex and sexual health education in Nepal. Key literature searches were conducted of electronic databases and relevant web-sites, furthermore personal contact with experts and the hand searching of key journals was included. The review of this literature generated the following challenges: Limitations ...

In the present scenario teaching methods made a lot of difference in the area of language and literature teaching in English courses. In the 1970s, the teaching of literature was becoming detached from the teaching of language mainly because of the traditional approaches like Grammar Translation Method. New methods in language teaching led to the role of literature in language learning being se...

These four readers for the illiterate represent an apparent contradiction in terms. They are in fact not 'readers', but a teaching-aid for the recognition of a social sight vocabulary. The books can be used in a variety of ways by the perceptive teacher to help the young adult illiterate to gain a 'shorthand communi-cation', to assist him in adjusting to the community. The key words of the voca...

The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship of LMS log and teaching portfolio. The elements of teaching portfolio for different universities were analyzed. The analyzed results would support designing and developing logic relationship between LMS log and professional teaching portfolio. Eight major elements were drawn as an integrated type of professional teaching portfolio. For ...

Vegetarianism is an old classic eating behavior that leads to lessening of several health risk factors. Vegetarian diet is reported to improve control of blood glucose concentration, to lower insulin requirement and to aid in weight control in diabetic patients. However, there is no evidence for the prevalence of diabetes mellitus to be significantly lower in vegetarians than in non-vegetarians...

Background: Teaching of theoretical and practical first aids are  important courses for medical sciences students. If these courses are  taught with Evidence Based Medicine(EBM), they will be learned better by students. The objective of this study  was the  determination of the  effect of evidence based medical education on learning of first aids. Methods: This study had been performed inthe pl...