BACKGROUND Residents have primary responsibility for teaching medical students, yet many receive no formal teaching instruction. This study evaluated the impact of a longitudinal multidisciplinary teaching curriculum on resident participants' self-perceived teaching skills. METHODS Residents received instruction on teaching and leadership skills during a four-month longitudinal teaching cours...

OBJECTIVES According to the CanMEDS' Scholar competency, physicians are expected to facilitate the learning of colleagues, patients and other health professionals. However, most medical students are not provided with formal opportunities to gain teaching experience with objective feedback. METHODS To address this, the University's Medical Education Interest Group (MEIG) created a pilot teachi...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate medical students' perceptions of a new community-based surgical module being delivered as part of a third-year clinical methods teaching (CMT) course at Imperial College, London. DESIGN A qualitative study using focus group interviews with medical students who had recently completed the surgical module. Focus group discussions were recorded, transcribed and analysed to ...

The aim of this qualitative study is to map the educational requirements and the needs of health and social care. In addition to social and health care services in the western region of Finland, the intention is to create models, possibilities and a new intensification concept for regional development within education, research and development (R&D). In phase one he data was collected in the fo...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effectiveness of a teaching method that uses 3-dimensional (3D) silicone-based prosthetic mimics of common serious lesions and eruptions and to compare learning outcomes with those achieved through the conventional method of lectures with 2-dimensional (2D) images. DESIGN Prospective and comparative. SETTING University of Massachusetts Medical School. PARTICIPAN...

background: long-term hospitalization for cancer treatment can prevent the continuation of a normal life of patients with cancer and their families. in this regard, caregivers face with problems such as psychological stress, hopelessness, fear, anxiety, and feelings of depression. the aim of this research was to investigate the effect of teaching of coping skills on the anxiety in caregivers of...

this study was an attempt to find out whether co-teaching model has statistically any significant impact on improving motivation and achievement of iranian young efl learners or not. the study was conducted at salehin english language department in tehran. to accomplish the purpose of this study, the researchers chose a sample of 91 participants which was reduced to 62 homogenous students throu...

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of Web-based, highly interactive, and multimedia-rich e-learning materials by comparing students’ learning outcomes in the lecture and online versions of an introductory computing course. The course versions differed only in that face-to-face lectures were replaced with e-learning modules in the online course; the other course elements (laboratory sessions...