Aim To investigate the possibility of assessing clinical skill competence of nursing students by using the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE). Methods The search for empirical articles on the assessment of clinical skill competence of nursing students was based on the SCOPUS electronic database. Search strategy included the utilization of two or three key words based on the MeSH i...

INTRODUCTION The length of incubation and thus, the time to hatch, significantly vary in chick embryos (Gallus gallus) with light exposure conditions. Continuous incubation in the dark throughout embryogenesis (24D) delays hatching by 1-2 days (~5-10% of total gestation), as compared to incubation in daily periodic light (12 hours of light, 12L) or continuous bright light (24L). Do such light-i...

Motor learning is a ubiquitous feature of human competence. This review focuses on two particular classes of model tasks for studying skill acquisition. The serial reaction time (SRT) task is used to probe how people learn sequences of actions, while adaptation in the context of visuomotor or force field perturbations serves to illustrate how preexisting movements are recalibrated in novel envi...

Webster’s Dictionary defines a person as competent if he or she has “requisite or adequate ability or qualities.” Synonyms for competent include sufficient and able, where the definition for able includes “having sufficient power, skill, or resources to accomplish an object” and “marked by intelligence, knowledge, skill, or competence.” Such definitions are worth noting because concerns about a...

26 It is unclear how the variability of kinematic errors experienced during motor training affects 27 skill retention and motivation. We used force fields produced by a haptic robot to modulate the 28 kinematic errors of 30 healthy adults during a period of practice in a virtual simulation of golf 29 putting. On Day 1, participants became relatively skilled at putting to a near and far target b...