OBJECTIVE The primary focus of this review was to discover what is already known about Emotional Intelligence (EI) and the role it plays within social relationships, as well as its importance in the fields of health care and health care education. This article analyzes the importance of EI in the field of health care and recommends various ways that this important skill can be built into medica...

This paper presents KnowledgeTree, an architecture for adaptive eLearning based on distributed re-usable intelligent learning activities. The goal of KnowledgeTree is to bridge the gap between the modern approach to Web-based education based on courseware management systems and powerful but underused intelligent tutoring and adaptive hypermedia technologies. This architecture attempts to addres...

The increase in obesity and chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease worldwide reflects the complex interactions of biology, personal behaviour and environment. Consequently there has been a greater recognition of the importance of nutrition education. An analysis of the evidence from 300+ studies shows that nutrition education is more likely to be effective when it focuses on behavi...

Background Asthma guidelines recognize asthma education as “an essential component of asthma therapy”. The Children’s Asthma Education Centre (CAEC)’s small group interactive sessions for children and families does not meet the needs of all families. Schools provide an opportunity for asthma education. The “Roaring Adventures of Puff” (RAP) is an effective, previously validated asthma education...

BACKGROUND Empathy is a central characteristic of medical professionalism and has recently gained attention in medical education research. The Jefferson Scale of Empathy is the most commonly used measure of empathy worldwide, and to date it has been translated in 39 languages. This study aimed to adapt the Jefferson Scale of Empathy to the Brazilian culture and to test its reliability and valid...

In order to improve the evaluation precision of education and training quality, a kind of quality evaluation model of combined medical education and training course (AHPPCASV) is put forward, which is a combination of analytic hierarchy process, principal component analysis and support vector machine. Firstly, AHP is used to construct the evaluation index body, and then the principal component ...

the data of this study was collected from 252 teachers, principals and vice-principals offemales’ high schools in district one through one researcher-administered questionnaire, and was then analyzed. the validity of the questionnaire was approved by seven university professors. cronbach’s alpha was used in order to measure the reliability of the questionnaire. the total calculated alpha was 0....

Expert educators continuously evaluate their students’ performance, adapting instructional programs to be as effective as possible for each child. This paper considers the information educators need to make these adaptations. The term educator refers here to professionals along the whole cascade of teaching services, from general classroom teachers, to learning specialists in smaller reading or...

The purpose of the present study was to assess the influence of a compulsory curriculum on first-year medical students. The ethical attitude study was performed at the School of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Croatia. The samples consisted of 171 medical students (68 males and 103 females) interviewed at the beginning of the first year of studies. Some of them, namely 143 (56 males and 87 fema...