4 Katja Heikkinen COGNITIVELY EMPOWERING INTERNET-BASED PATIENT EDUCATION FOR AMBULATORY ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY PATIENTS Department of Nursing Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku, Finland Annales Universitatis Turkuensis Turku 2011 ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to create and evaluate an Internet-based patient education programme aiming to cognitively empower ambulatory orthopaed...

Background and aim: Acne is a common skin disorder that can affect patient's quality of life. Most of acne patients do not seek medical treatment or are not adherent to it, while acne is a treatable condition. There are several methods that can be used to improve medical adherence, education is one of them. There are several models for patient's education. Regarding to belief and insight ...

Audio Response Systems (ARS) are currently used as a mechanism to enhance face to face education in classrooms and the results are promising. These systems could also improve certain aspects in e-learning if designed appropriately. This paper presents a design and implementation of an ARS adapted to both face to face education and distance learning scenarios. We also show how this ARS system is...

With the rapid expansion of the transnational education market, more and more universities join the ranks of transnational education providers or expand their transnational education offerings. Many of those providers regard fully-online provision of their programs as an economic alternative to face-to-face teaching. Do transnational students accept this model as a viable and effective educatio...

Objective: Drawing upon earlier research that surveyed students’ grasp of subject knowledge after taking either an online or face-to-face EBM course, this paper explores the effectiveness of a Web-based professional continuing education course, compared with an equivalent face-toface version. The course was designed to teach practicing medical librarians how to participate in and advocate for E...

eLearning has profoundly changed many aspects of society and, inevitably, it is having a significant impact on Higher Education, where it has now evolved from a marginal form of education to a commonly accepted alternative to traditional face-to-face education. The term can cover different delivery models ranging from courses that are delivered fully online (no face-to-face meetings) to courses...

Spend your few moment to read a book even only few pages. Reading book is not obligation and force for everybody. When you don't want to read, you can get punishment from the publisher. Read a book becomes a choice of your different characteristics. Many people with reading habit will always be enjoyable to read, or on the contrary. For some reasons, this the changing face of medical education ...

ALTHOUGH A MOMENT OF CALM HAS DESCENDED ON FEDERAL LEGISLAtive efforts to overhaul our national health care system, a quiet revolution is still at work. The driving force of that change will be US business interests. Under a system pioneered by health maintenance organizations, doctors are now asked to deliver adequate care, instead of care that maximizes the use of advanced medical resources. ...