INTRODUCTION The South African National Department of Health sought to improve syndromic management of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Continuing medical education on STIs was delivered at primary healthcare (PHC) clinics using one of three training methods: (1) lecture, (2) computer and (3) paper-based. Clinics with training were compared with control clinics. METHODS Ten PHC clinics...

background the direct and indirect negative impacts of hypertension on mortality and morbidity and the deficiencies in physicians’ knowledge on its management prompted us to search for new methods of training this item. objectives in this study, 2 methods of teaching—planned lecture and cooperation—were compared in instructing hypertension to medical students. materials and methods this study w...

INTRODUCTION Training-induced cognitive bias may affect performance. Using a simulation-based emergency airway curriculum, we tested the hypothesis that curriculum design would induce bias and affect decision making. METHODS Twenty-three novice anesthesiology residents were randomized into 2 groups. The primary outcome measure was the initiation of supraglottic airway and cricothyroidotomy te...

In this lecture, we will address problems 3 and 4. First, continuing from the previous lecture, we will view BaumWelch Re-estimation as an instance of the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm and prove why the EM algorithm maximizes data likelihood. Then, we will proceed to discuss discriminative training under the maximum mutual information estimation (MMIE) framework. Specifically, we will...

anxiety is one of the most common mental disorders in human societies and is believed that stress and anxiety are responsible for 75% of somatic disease. hence attention to preventive methods to control anxiety and stress and coping strategies need to be considered. therefore, this study aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of mindfulness training on anxiety in students of islamic azad univers...

This article aims to provide a comprehensive set of acoustic model discriminative training results for the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese (CSJ) lecture speech transcription task. Discriminative training was carried out for this task using a 100,000 word trigram for several acoustic model topologies, using both diagonal and full covariance models, and using both stringbased and lattice-based tra...

BACKGROUND Motivational interviewing (M.I.) is an option for modifying an individual's behavior. It is used as an educational method in recent years. The aim of our study was to indicate whether or not education, using lecture alone and lecture with M.I., would affect the performance of nursing personnel regarding their hand hygiene. If so, which of these two methods were most effective for thi...