Objectives To investigate medical students' perceptions of lecture and non-lecture-based instructional methods and compare preferences for use and quantity of each during preclinical training. Methods We administered a survey to first- and second-year undergraduate medical students at the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham, Alabama, USA aimed to evaluate preferred instruct...

Education and training are expected to change dramatically due to the combined impact of the Internet, database, and multimedia technologies. However, the distance learning is often impeded by the lack of effective tools and system to manage and retrieve the lecture contents effectively. This paper introduces a new approach to realize the distance learning on the Web. The approach involves: (1)...

Abstract Aim : To undertake a review of general practitioner (GP) mental health training focusing on three teaching formats; lecture-based, skills-based, and multifaceted strategies. Methods : The databases of Medline, Educational Resources Information Centre, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, the Database of Abstacts of Reviews of Effectiveness were searched from the years 1980 to 2...

background: video-based instruction has been stated as an effective method of teaching and its potentials have encouraged instructors learners to opt this method purpose: the current study has compared the students' cognitive learning in the two approaches of lecture- based and video-based teaching. methods: this quasi-experimental study was conducted on 88 senior nursing students who were rand...

Background: Simulation teaching means recreating clinical scenario for training / evaluation. Aim: To expose postgraduates to simulation / didactic lecture for postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) management; to assess which method was more effective. Methods: Present prospective study was conducted in Obstetrics Gynecology department of rural tertiary center of Northern India.  Twenty postgraduates wer...

In this work the theoretical concepts of unsupervised acoustic model training and the application and evaluation of unsupervised training schemes are described. Experiments aiming at speaker adaptation via unsupervised training are conducted on the KIT lecture translator system. Evaluation takes place with respect to training e ciency and overall system performance in dependency of the availabl...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Within otolaryngology residency training, the annual Otolaryngology Training Examination (OTE) is the primary method used to assess, quantify, and compare the factual knowledge acquired by each resident. The objective of this study was to develop a more frequent method for tracking of factual knowledge to prevent educational delay. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective analysis of ...

Simulation education provides many new learning opportunities to healthcare training. This article delineates a method that utilizes a variety of teaching methods that include structured lecture-based education, active simulation-based education, and reflective inquiry. A course in pharmacology is used as an example to show how these different methods can be employed to offer students an immers...