Clinical competence is an attribute expected of every practicing doctor while proficiency in procedural skills is a requirement by certifying bodies. To attain competency in the performance of procedural/psychomotor skills, possession of conceptual knowledge has been documented as a fundamental pre-requisite in reference to medical education literature. At the University Of Zambia School Of Med...

As the second in a series of studies concerning the development of kindergartners’ self-perceptions, this study examined the effects of the kindergarten experience on self-perceptions of African American and White students as they progressed through their kindergarten year. Using a countywide sample of 209 children in 31 classrooms, the study incorporated in vivo observations of teachers’ verba...

Objective: To investigate the self-perceived competence of house-officers from three dental institutions in Pakistan.
 Study Design: Cross-sectional study.
 Place and Duration Study: Islamabad Dental Hospital, Fatima Memorial Hospital Islamic International Jan to Dec 2018.
 Methodology: House-officers were invited participate a cross-sectional study. A previously validated prepar...

objectives: verbal self-instruction strategy is one of the useful techniques for treating individual with learning disability. the purpose of the present study was to determine the effect of verbal self-instructional package on the social competence of students with learning disability. methods: the study was done in a quasi-experimental research and pre-test, post-test design with control grou...

OBJECTIVES This is a clinical case of a 36-year-old Dutch male, patient in the Dr. S. van Mesdag Forensic Psychiatric Centre in Groningen. It demonstrates a short-time effect of a tailored oral hygiene self-care intervention in three sessions over a period of 3 months on halitosis and a patient's oral health-related quality of life (OH-QoL). METHODS In addition to a dental screening and profe...

It is though that those students who better manage their time and perceive themselves to be more effective in the tasks they perform are thought due, part, a stronger understanding command of digital competence. This competence allows know use greater number tools techniques respond problems arise academic career, favouring reduction perceived stress. To test this hypothesis, total 200 from dif...

This study examined the relationship between reticence (Keaten & Kelly, 2000) and instant messaging (IM), including affect for IM, usage of IM, and self-perceived competence using IM in difficult interpersonal situations. Participants (N 1⁄4 336) from undergraduate courses responded to self-report measures of reticence, affect for IM, general usage of IM, as well as usage in challenging interpe...

OBJECTIVE Despite known benefits of patient-perceived collaborative goal setting, we have a limited ability to monitor this process in practice. We developed the Patient Measure of Collaborative Goal Setting (PM-CGS) to evaluate the use of collaborative goal setting from the patient's perspective. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A random sample of 400 patients aged 40 years or older, receiving di...