BACKGROUND The characteristics of practising general practitioners who teach evidence based medicine (EBM) during their clinical work--and their attitudes toward it--are poorly known. METHODS One hundred and twenty-two Canberra GPs who previously had medical students attend their practice were sent a questionnaire on their education, experience, knowledge, confidence, and attitudes toward tea...

This paper provides an overview of a variety of applications of knowledge-based systems and intelligent agents to modeling and simulation for special operations training. There are a number of ways in which intelligent agents can support training; including modeling special-operations individuals, other members of the blue forces, as well as opponent forces. The paper presents examples of each ...

Location-based games are an emerging paradigm for training, simulation, entertainment, health and many other domains. In this paper, we consider the role of location-based games as a platform for data collection and analysis of human behavior. We also examine how human teams perform in a disaster scenario when such a scenario is mapped to a game environment conducted as a location-based augment...

This article presents the development of a program and results of a study to evaluate an online distancebased learning (DBL) program for competency-based, basic emergency preparedness training for employees of local health departments nationwide. The program was developed and implemented beginning in May 2003 by Columbia University’s Center for Public Health Preparedness (CU-CPHP), and was desi...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was designed to investigate medical students' perceptions of small group teaching effectiveness in a hybrid curriculum. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-sectional, descriptive survey was conducted at the School of Medicine, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine where we collected the data from 195 undergraduate students. A self-administered quest...

Hougaard et al.(2008) report a case series on a mixed individual and group treatment for social phobia, suggesting that the treatment is efficacious. As a group who has just embarked on a similar training program, we comment on their endeavor from the teacher/student perspective with an eye towards pedagogy in training students to conduct CBT. Thoughts and questions regarding the treatment, the...

The ability to read the human terrain is an invaluable skill set developed by Warfighters to identify irregular behavior in any environment. Traditional training methods (i.e., classroom-based instruction) have evolved to include SimulationBased Training (SBT). SBT allows virtual representation of behavioral cues for enhancing combat training skills. Accurately modeling human behavior cues in a...