BACKGROUND This study examined attitudes towards and knowledge about abortion among undergraduate students doing eleven different subjects. The differences in attitudes and knowledge about abortion according to gender, religious and political affiliation, religiosity, sexual orientation, number of sex partners and previous sexual experience were also considered. METHOD 1,025 undergraduate stu...

Undergraduate biology education reform aims to engage students in scientific practices such as experimental design, experimentation, and data analysis and communication. Graphs are ubiquitous in the biological sciences, and creating effective graphical representations involves quantitative and disciplinary concepts and skills. Past studies document student difficulties with graphing within the ...

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The purpose of this study was to survey access to information for learning on the types of assistive technology used by undergraduate students with disabilities in Northern Thailand. The types of assistive technology in this study included assistive devices and educational services. Data were collected from a questionnaire developed as a rating scale checklist that was completed by 140 undergra...

INTRODUCTION The risk of tuberculosis (TB) in healthcare personnel (HCP) is related to its incidence in the general population. Healthcare students involved in clinical training could be exposed to occupational risks similar to those that HCP face. The prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) among undergraduate healthcare students with different working seniority in Italy was analyse...

Meo SA. Evaluating learning among undergraduate medical students in schools with traditional and problem-based curricula. Adv Physiol Educ 37: 249–253, 2013; doi:10.1152/advan.00031.2013.— This study aimed to assess knowledge and skills in a respiratory physiology course in traditional versus problem-based learning (PBL) groups in two different medical schools. Two different undergraduate medic...

OBJECTIVE To develop and validate a scale for the assessment of professionalism in medical students based on students' perceptions of and attitudes towards professionalism in medicine. METHODS This was a mixed methods study with undergraduate medical students. Two focus groups were carried out with 12 students, followed by a transcript analysis (grounded theory method with open coding). Then,...

objective: in dental and medical education, information and communication technology (ict) has been playing an important role and its use is rapidly increasing. in developing countries, however, information technology is still only available to a minority of health professionals. the present study aimed to assess the level of computer use among dental undergraduate students pursuing their caree...

Background: Infertility affects one-fifth to one-sixth of couples reproductive age. Gamete donation is one option for managing infertility, but it relatively unknown in the developing world. Objectives: To assess Nigerian undergraduate students' knowledge, attitude and willingness participate gamete artificial insemination. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among 160 st...