embrace the teaching potential of other health care professionals who operate in the clinical learning environment [3, 4]. Looking beyond the one-on-one relationship between a student and a teacher and widening our scope to the level of team or community of practice, there is a larger movement visible within the medical education domain. Alan Bleakley, in his 2006 paper on ‘broadening conceptio...

Generally speaking, spoken term detection system will degrade significantly because of mismatch between acoustic model and spontaneous speech. This paper presents an improved spoken term detection strategy, which integrated with a novel phoneme confusion matrix and an improved word-level minimum classification error MCE training method. The first technique is presented to improve spoken term de...

We present a novel approach to Automatic Language Identification (LID). We propose Perceptually Guided Training (PGT), a novel LID training method, involving identification of utterance parts which are particularly significant perceptually for the language identification process, and exploitation of these Perceptually Significant Regions (PSRs) to guide the LID training process. Our approach in...

INTRODUCTION A crisis team management (CTM) simulation course was developed by volunteers from Health Volunteers Overseas for physicians and nurses at Angkor Hospital for Children (AHC) in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The framework for the course was adapted from crisis resource management (1, 2), crisis team training (3), and TeamSTEPPs© models (4). The CTM course focused on teaching physicians and nu...