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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"medical training"”.
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Voice Track Computer Based Simulation For Medical Training
… rate of audio-based text within web-based training increases the effectiveness of the learning process and improves retention when compared with a fixed audio-based text delivery rate. To answer this question, two groups of 20 participants and one group of 10 participants were tested using …
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Integrating the Rare Disease Context into Medical Training Models
… the RD context into existing models used in medical training (i.e. PCC and EBM). This study used a Qualitative Descriptive Design (Sandelowski, 2000) and data was collected through twelve semi-structured interviews. The analysis and the results, represent a complex interrelated system where a …
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Virtual environments for medical training : graphic and haptic simulation of tool-tissue interactions
… more comprehensive way to train manual skills of medical personnel in general and surgeons in particular. One of the major challenges in the development of VR-based surgical trainers is the real-time and realistic simulation of interactions between surgical instruments and biological tissues. It …
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The Doctor of Ministry: The Impact of Martyn Lloyd-Jones' Medical Training on His Homiletical Methodology
… examines the impact of Martyn Lloyd-Jones' medical training upon his homiletical methodology. Chapter 1 sets forth the thesis and charts the course forward. Chapter 2 reconstructs the intellectual culture of Lloyd-Jones' youth, both at home and at school. It also introduces the most …
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The experience of students in the South African-Cuban medical training program : an encounter with medical pluralism
The Cuban Medical Training program is an initiative that provides bursaries to international students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Understanding the experiences of South African participants, particularly those who complete their transitional component at University of Cape Town (UCT), and how …
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Bring Up the Bodies: The Resurrectionists and the Rise of the American Cadaver Trade
… deals with the cadaver trade, for purposes of medical education, and its pedagogical origins in North America. Historians have extensively studied the reorientation of medical training around anatomy in Western Europe and North American in the eighteenth century as the foundation for much of …
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Fired Up: Scales of Safety and Federal Wildland Fire Management in the U.S.
… position on crews and are provided very little medical training, leaving them particularly vulnerable to medical emergencies when responding to remote incidents. The history of firefighter safety policy creation is marked by reactions to visceral accidents, yet there are examples of more …
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Attitudes and intentions of future health care providers regarding termination of pregnancy (TOP) services in South Africa
… services, * incorporating TOP observation and training into medical training curricula, preventing burnout, * addressing negative attitudes and stigma of health providers, * diminishing professional discrimination and harassment, and * offering more TOP training modules, counselling workshops, …
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Attitudes, knowledge and beliefs around homosexuality: exploring the views of 5th year medical students
… LGBTI-focused healthcare remains understated in medical training and university curricular. Learning about medical students' attitudes can provide useful ways of identifying interventions to capacitate health professionals to address LGBTI health. Methods: This study is a mixed methods study, …
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Pilot Post Intervention Evaluation of Renew, A Program for Burnout Intervention Among Medical Professionals
… echoed themes of personal insult that began in medical training and continued into their practices. Results of the investigation point to significant personal and clinical practice benefits as a result of participation in RENEW. Findings demonstrated that burnout prevention should be offered as …
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Development of thermostable affinity reagents for low-cost, paper-based medical diagnostics
… and can be employed by users with minimal medical training and limited access to basic infrastructure. One of the most common POC diagnostic formats is the immunochromatographic rapid diagnostic test, which traditionally uses nitrocellulose-immobilized IgG antibodies as binding proteins for …
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On Being A NASA Flight Surgeon
… surgeons are physicians that care for the varied medical needs of aviators, flyers, pilots and astronauts. This thesis constitutes a literature review as to the characteristics of flight surgeons including from a historical perspective. In addition, a survey study is performed on a cohort of …
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Surface Models of the Gastrointestinal Tract and Neighboring Structures Made from the Visible Korean Human
… to encourage other investigators to develop medical training systems such as virtual abdominal operation. Additionally, the improved technique of outlining and surface reconstruction is expected to inspire other investigators to easily make their own surface models from other serial images.
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The Humanity Strain: Diagnosing the Self in Walker Percy's Fiction
… more on Percy's Christian agenda than the medical healing that occurs in his fiction. Conversely, when scholars have observed the influence of Percy's medical background in his fiction, they often emphasize Percy's use of medical terminology and his portrayals of physicians and illness …
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Haptic Interaction with 3D oriented point clouds on the GPU
… used for a wide range of applications such as medical training, remote robot operators, tactile displays and video games. Virtual object visualization and interaction using haptic devices is the main focus; this process involves several steps such as: Data Acquisition, Graphic Rendering, Haptic …
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Behavioral Design for Emotional Intelligence: Leveraging Affective Computing in Medical Education for Improved Care for Substance Use Disorders
… this issue, this thesis aims to introduce medical trainees to Medship, an affective computing tool that promotes self-reflection about one’s facial expression and raises awareness about stigma, while also filling the gap in medical training. The focus is on changing human behavior without …
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Medship: Affective Computing for Building Empathetic Behaviors Toward Patients with Substance Use Disorders
… increasing in frequency, the majority of medical training still fails to address the importance of building empathy and minimizing stigma in such clinical interactions. Furthermore, physicians receive only minimal instruction regarding the expression of empathy and its role in building …
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“Life Out of Death": Poisons, Antidotes, and the Medical Marketplace in Christina Rossetti's “Goblin Market"
… elements of the fantastical, scientific, medical, literal, and allegorical when she wrote “Goblin Market” in 1862. I argue that Rossetti critiques the treatment of women’s bodies in the evolving medical marketplace of Victorian England at the hands of male medical professionals and argues …
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Evaluation of an Active Colonoscopy Training Model
… the effectiveness of an Active Colonoscopy Training Model (ACTM). To make learning and assessing the colonoscopy procedural skills easy and interactive, an active training model is being developed and evaluated. To measure the applied forces load cells are used. The time to complete the …
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The Ebola Virus and West Africa: Medical and Sociocultural Aspects
… in Africa. Most of the preparatory and intensive training of health personnel attending to the needs of those societies where culture is at the center of life have given only lip service to the importance of integrating this culture into the medical training curriculum and practice. Purpose: To …
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