introduction: since lectures’ experiences can help university managers in improving educational situation, this study was carried out to determine faculty lecturers’ attitudes towards the educational situation at kermanshah university of medical sciences. materials and methods: this study is a descriptive–analytical one. a two-part questionnaire was employed for data collection. the first part ...

reamble atient-based teaching has been used since the earliest days of edical education and continues to be used today for educating edical students, physicians, nurses, and other medical peronnel. Patient demonstrations have evolved from bedside eaching, to the surgical amphitheater, to recorded medical rocedures, and finally to broadcast live case demonstrations. ith current telecommunication...

Diagnosis of Parkinson's disease dementia is a challenge in clinical settings. A comprehensive neuropsychological evaluation is time-consuming and expensive; brief instruments for cognitive evaluation must be easier to administer and provide a reliable classification. Objective To study the validity of the Brazilian version of Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination-Revised (ACE-R) for the cognit...

In the United States, the use of educational technology is mandated by accredited teacher preparation programs and by state accrediting departments of education. Yet, the majority of teacher education faculty fail to infuse educational technology procedures into their courses at substantial levels (Mitchell, Dipetta and Kerr 2001) and teachers fail to infuse technology into their teaching (Ande...

The Virtual Company educational scenario engages students in a professional setting for working and learning. Students are enabled to develop competencies that are derived from professional practice. This allows us to use assessment strategies that are different from the practice in traditional educational settings. In the Virtual Company educational scenario the competence assessment procedure...

The need for domiciliary dental care has increased with the aging of Japanese society. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Tokyo Dental Association conducted a survey of dental institutions within Tokyo in order to clarify which factors influenced implementation of domiciliary dental care by dental institutions. The proportion was significantly higher in (1) dentists in their 50s or older, (2...

The purpose of this chapter is to discuss some of the developments in cognitive psychology that have been influential in educational technology research. Since cognitive psychology is a broad, eclectic, and sometimes elusive discipline , this chapter is of necessity selective. Nonetheless, it provides discussion of the most important research in cogni-tive psychology that has a bearing on the t...

This paper presents ongoing actions in Dubai on patient dose monitoring in digital radiographic examinations, mammography, interventional procedures, and dental radiological procedures. The aim of Dubai Health Authority (DHA) is to move towards the establishment of local diagnostic reference levels. DHA has participated in national and regional projects under the umbrella of the International A...