This article addresses implications for the practice of occupational therapy when that therapy is guided by theories of motor learning. In occupational therapy, clients must learn or relearn motor skills through the use of activities. The occupational therapist must present activities in a manner that elicits the retention and transfer of the desired skills for use in functional settings. There...

background and purpose: acquiring clinical skills is one learning goal for medical students. clinical skills are essential to diagnose diseases and to accomplish therapies. the aim of this study is to review status of clinical skills among interns in birjand university of medicine methods: this was a cross sectional study, in witch all interns of birjand university of medicine articipated. a qu...

This study assessed whether playing video games enhanced laparoscopic skill acquisition for preclinical medical students with no past surgical exposure. By the second attempt on a peg transfer task, there was significant difference in timing between two groups, indicating that did not confer benefit gamer group.

It is said that if you give a man a fish you feed him for a day, but if you teach him to fish you feed him for a lifetime. In the spirit of this adage, the International Training and Research in Environmental and Occupational Health (ITREOH) program trains health scientists, clinicians, epidemiologists, toxicologists, engineers, industrial hygienists, chemists, and allied health workers from de...

Background: Considering the occurrence of medical emergencies in dental practice, and the essential need of acquiring competency in Basic life support (BLS), the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of BLS workshop on the skills of dental students in the cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Methods: In this switching replication experimental study, students in the 5th year of Mashhad d...

Acquisition of software intensive systems demands significant work on requirements prior to establishing the contract. The acquirer needs to understand the domain, needs, and constraints of the project clearly in order to make realistic size and effort estimates, and to have a solid foundation for defining contract requirements. In this study, an approach for requirements elicitation based on b...