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Yan, Xiaoeheng; Jungic, Veselin – PRIMUS, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic provided students a rare opportunity to use their mathematical knowledge to make sense of a top-of-mind crisis. Based on a report in a major regional newspaper, we designed tasks that require an understanding of infection rates and an interpretation of a misleading claim made in the newspaper. Our analysis of 91 undergraduate…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Disease Incidence, Calculus
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Dodd, Rebecca V.; Rafi, Damir; Stackhouse, Ashlyn A.; Brown, Celia A.; Westacott, Rachel J.; Meeran, Karim; Hughes, Elizabeth; Wilkinson, Paul; Gurnell, Mark; Swales, Catherine; Sam, Amir H. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2023
Previous literature has explored unconscious racial biases in clinical education and medicine, finding that people with darker skin tones can be underrepresented in learning resources and managed differently in a clinical setting. This study aimed to examine whether patient skin colour can affect the diagnostic ability and confidence of medical…
Descriptors: Patients, Human Body, Racial Attitudes, Racism
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Jamison, J. P.; Stewart, M. T. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2015
Simulation of disorders of respiratory mechanics shown by spirometry provides insight into the pathophysiology of disease but some clinically important disorders have not been simulated and none have been formally evaluated for education. We have designed simple mechanical devices which, along with existing simulators, enable all the main…
Descriptors: Simulation, Medical Education, Diseases, Human Body
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Ash, Sharon; McMillan, Corey; Gross, Rachel G.; Cook, Philip; Morgan, Brianna; Boller, Ashley; Dreyfuss, Michael; Siderowf, Andrew; Grossman, Murray – Brain and Language, 2011
Narrative discourse is an essential component of day-to-day communication, but little is known about narrative in Lewy body spectrum disorder (LBSD), including Parkinson's disease (PD), Parkinson's disease with dementia (PDD), and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). We performed a detailed analysis of a semi-structured speech sample in 32 non-aphasic…
Descriptors: Dementia, Aphasia, Diseases, Patients
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Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2016, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 30 of April to 2 of May, 2016. Psychology, nowadays, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology