Reading teacher

BACKGROUND: There is increasing awareness of the necessity and importance for physician leadership in health care. Despite this, formal leadership training is not widespread in medical education. APPROACH: We describe the structure, curriculum and development of a robust two-tiered leadership development programme within a community-based family medicine residency programme. Living, Leading & Medicine (LLM, tier 1) consists of nine 2.5-h discussion-based training sessions occurring thrice annually...

The CPD landscape is rapidly evolving and may be affecting patient outcomes. This also poses challenges to healthcare professionals, some of whom are experiencing a lot of stress leading to burnout. Medical and residency training are very structured and the importance of CPD occurring in a non-structured setting to prevent professional stagnation cannot be overemphasized. The need for lifelong learning post- residency, which encompasses a much longer period until retirement, is underscored hence the need for a cultural shift...

Simulation training in healthcare settings has become a valuable training tool. It provides an ideal formative assessment for interdisciplinary teaching. It provides a high fidelity and highly immersive environment where healthcare staff and students can practice developing their skills in a safe and controlled manner. Simulation training allows staff to practice skills that better prepare them for clinical emergencies, therefore possibly optimising clinical care. While the benefits of simulation education are well understood, establishing a programme for use by critical care staff is complex...

Generation Z students can be challenging. The Internet, the Covid-19 epidemic, its political aftermath, and the substantial online educational content they have been required to endure, has left them with a perspective towards a work-life balance to which we older, more experienced faculty are not accustomed. Here, I give caution and guidance to my colleagues regarding their interactions with this cohort through my reading of the Hippocratic corpus.

To help non-native English speakers quickly master English vocabulary, and improve reading, writing, listening and speaking skills, and communication skills, this study designs, constructs, and improves an English vocabulary learning model that integrates Spiking Neural Network (SNN) and Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory (Conv LSTM) algorithms. The fusion of SNN and Conv LSTM algorithm can fully utilize the advantages of SNN in processing temporal information and Conv LSTM in sequence data modeling, and implement a fusion model that performs well in English vocabulary learning...

Fusing multi-modal radiology and pathology data with complementary information can improve the accuracy of tumor typing. However, collecting pathology data is difficult since it is high-cost and sometimes only obtainable after the surgery, which limits the application of multi-modal methods in diagnosis. To address this problem, we propose comprehensively learning multi-modal radiology-pathology data in training, and only using uni-modal radiology data in testing. Concretely, a Memory-aware Hetero-modal Distillation Network (MHD-Net) is proposed, which can distill well-learned multi-modal knowledge with the assistance of memory from the teacher to the student...

Research on fluency in native (L1) and non-native (L2) speech production and perception helps us understand how individual L1 speaking style might affect perceived L2 fluency and how this relationship might be reflected in L1 versus L2 oral assessment. While the relationship between production and perception of fluency in spontaneous speech has been studied, the information provided by reading has been overlooked. We argue that reading provides a direct and controlled way to assess language proficiency that might complement information gained from spontaneous speaking...

In this article, we present CuentosIE (TalesEI: chatbot of tales with a message to develop Emotional Intelligence), an educational chatbot on emotions that also provides teachers and psychologists with a tool to monitor their students/patients through indicators and data compiled by CuentosIE. The use of "tales with a message" is justified by their simplicity and easy understanding, thanks to their moral or associated metaphors. The main contributions of CuentosIE are the selection, collection, and classification of a set of highly specialized tales, as well as the provision of tools (searching, reading comprehension, chatting, recommending, and classifying) that are useful for both educating users about emotions and monitoring their emotional development...

Mental state reasoning is an integral part of children's teaching and learning understanding. This study investigated whether a picture book reading approach focusing on mental state discourse and contrasting perspectives in a preschool classroom setting would improve children's teaching and learning understanding and school readiness. In total, 104 children from four classrooms aged between 46 and 64 months (53 girls, M = 54.03 months, SD = 3.68) participated in the study...

Data-based instruction (DBI) is a process in which teachers use progress data to make ongoing instructional decisions for students with learning disabilities. Curriculum-based measurement (CBM) is a common form of progress monitoring, and CBM data are placed on a graph to guide decision-making. Despite the central role that graph interpretation plays in the successful implementation of DBI, relatively little attention has been devoted to investigating this skill among special education teachers. In the present study, we examined the data decisions of 32 pre-service special education teachers (29 females and 3 males)...

Despite major reforms of specialist training in the Nordic countries towards concrete learning outcomes and promoting active learning, most specialist courses continue to be based on lectures. We redesigned our mandatory 5-day course in clinical nuclear medicine (NM) that was last held in 2016 towards active learning. Thirty 1-h lectures were replaced with 10 thematic blocks of 3 h each. Each block was taught by a single teacher in a blend of short introductory lectures alternating with small groups of residents reading NM cases from our newly established national case library in diagnostic format...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an increased reported use of chemical cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting products (CSDPs), which created public concerns about negative health consequences for both children and adults in public schools. A subset of newer teachers shared experiences regarding safety and health (S&H) while working in school-based settings through a series of online surveys. Surveys were provided to teachers who completed work-based learning supervisory trainings provided by the New Jersey Safe Schools Program between October 2021 and June 2023...

The purpose of this study was to examine the acute effects of an active reading intervention on physical activity (PA) levels in preschoolers. Participants were recruited from the 3-5-year-old classes at two preschools. A total of six classrooms and 37 children participated in three conditions: an active reading book read by a researcher (Act_R) trained in active play techniques, an active reading book read by a preschool classroom teacher (Act_T), and a book about health behavior read by both the researcher and the teacher (Sed_H)...

INTRODUCTION: Reading comprehension is considered a key ability for students in teacher education programs. METHODS: Data from 72 students enrolled in a Chilean school of education was used to estimate the contribution of reading proficiency in first-semester academic performance using regression analysis. RESULTS: Reading comprehension made a significant, albeit modest contribution to predict students' academic performance, after controlling for their scores in the standardized national admission tests and high-school grades...

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The concept of a static electronic learning environment implies the utilization of tools that do not necessitate any active participation on the part of the learner aside from familiarizing oneself with the provided materials. In contrast, an interactive electronic learning environment necessitates active engagement and interaction from the learner. The research purpose is to compare the impact of interactive and static learning environments on students' emotional intelligence. Music education students ( n  = 216) took a theoretical course on emotional intelligence during one academic semester at the university...

BACKGROUND: According to gender-differentiated attributions of failure in the STEM field, errors tend to be attributed to internal factors more to girls than to boys. AIMS: This experimental study explored factors influencing gender-differentiated teachers' internal attributions of girls' and boys' errors and the consequent likelihood of teachers' hesitancy to offer educational robotics (ER) courses to them. The predictions were as follows: (1) the likelihood of teachers' hesitancy would be related to gender-differentiated internal attributions of errors based on expectations of a low natural aptitude for girls; and (2) teachers with high levels of gender stereotypes would be more hesitant about offering ER to girls than to boys via the mediation of internal attributions of errors as being due to girls' low levels of natural aptitude for ER...

EFL/ESL teachers have used digital communication activities to teach language skills. However, the effect of digital communication activities on EFL learners' Willingness to Communicate (WTC) in classrooms and learner engagement has yet to be well investigated. This study examined the influence of digital communication activities on the engagement and willingness to communicate of intermediate English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. It also assessed the potential advantages of integrating digital communication into language learning contexts...

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study is to evaluate the association of disciplinary actions by regulatory councils and unprofessional behaviour during medical graduation. METHODS: A search strategy was developed using the terms: 'physicians', 'disciplinary action', 'education', 'medical', 'undergraduate' and their synonyms, subsequently applied to the electronic databases MEDLINE, Embase, Cochrane Library, LILACs and grey literature, with searches up to November 2023...

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in accelerating radiology reporting by summarizing clinical findings into impressions. However, automatic impression generation for whole-body PET reports presents unique challenges and has received little attention. Our study aimed to evaluate whether LLMs can create clinically useful impressions for PET reporting. To this end, we fine-tuned twelve open-source language models on a corpus of 37,370 retrospective PET reports collected from our institution. All models were trained using the teacher-forcing algorithm, with the report findings and patient information as input and the original clinical impressions as reference...