Medical students must be prepared for working in inter-professional and multi-disciplinary clinical teams centred on a patient's care pathway. While there has been a good deal of rhetoric surrounding patient-centred medical education, there has been little attempt to conceptualise such a practice beyond the level of describing education of communication skills and empathy within a broad 'profes...

This paper describes the implementation of an interactive computer-based tutorial for MATLAB. Students are engaged in learning new concepts and syntax with video, audio, and interactive exercises. The interactive exercises, which are a distinguishing feature of the tutorial, use a specially designed exercise window, which has a background software interface to MATLAB. The learner is challenged ...

OBJECTIVE Although various risk stratification models are available and currently being used, the performance of these models in different populations is still controversial. We aimed to investigate the relation between the Framingham and SCORE models and the presence and severity of coronary artery disease, which is detected using the SYNTAX score. METHODS The observational cross-sectional s...

BACKGROUND Integrating cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training in secondary schools will increase the number of potential CPR providers. However, currently too few certified instructors are available for this purpose. Training medical students and physical education student teachers to become CPR instructors could decrease this shortage. AIM Examine whether medical students and physical ...

In this project we present an application for performing OCR of mathematical expressions, based on segmentation and correspondence nding, based on correlation coe cient. In addition we present a framework which translates the results into a structural data using clues regarding the syntax of mathematical expressions. The framework allows to convert the result to a format compatible with Wolfram...

An adaptive system is one that adjusts its operation to the user taking this as essential unity in their performance. Starting from this premise can be deduced the importance of the user model for such systems since the characteristics and goals of the person who interacts with the system will be directly reflected in a change of strategy in the operation. This article refers to the creation of...

With the continuous development of China's higher education and the rapid expansion of students, the student management in higher education is becoming more and more important. In this paper, the author analyzes the three dimensions of student management as management object, management theory and management experience. Then, the author makes empirical analysis by using exploratory factor metho...

The consolidation of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) in universities has led to significant changes in student training. This paper, part of a Teaching Innovation Project, starts from new training requirements that are fit within Undergraduate Thesis Project, a subject that culminate student learning. Undergraduate Thesis Project is current assessment system that weigh the student acq...

Does More Generous Student Aid Increase Enrolment Rates into Higher Education? Evaluating the German Student Aid Reform of 2001 Students from low-income families are eligible to student aid under the federal students’ financial assistance scheme (BAfoeG) in Germany. We evaluate the effectiveness of a recent reform of student aid that substantially increased the amount received by eligible stude...

Renea Fike Assistant Professor of Education Department of Education West Texas A&M University 2501 4th Avenue Canyon,TX 79016 ABSTRACT: This study assessed the impact of faculty employment status on student outcomes in developmental mathematics. The sample consisted of 1318 students enrolled in Intermediate Algebra classes at a community college. Multivariate analyses revealed that faculty empl...