<ns4:p>This article was migrated. The marked as recommended.</ns4:p><ns4:p> COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a massive adaptation health professions education, with shift from in-person learning activities to sudden heavy reliance on internet-mediated education. Some schools will have already had considerable educational technology and cultural infrastructure place, making such more of different emphasis provision. For others, this been dislocation for both educators learners the provision...

Self-directed learning (SDL) is defined as on one's own initiative, with the learner having primary responsibility for planning, implementing, and evaluating effort. Medical education institutions promote SDL, since physicians need to be self-directed learners maintain lifelong in ever-changing world of medicine obtain essential knowledge professional growth. The purpose study was measure readiness medical students across training years, determine perceptions faculty factors that deter SDL...

The School of Medicine, University Saskatchewan curriculum promotes self-direction as one its learning philosophies. authors sought to identify changes in self-directed (SDL) readiness during training.Guglielmino's SDL Readiness Scale (SDLRS) was administered five student cohorts (N = 375) at admission and the end every year training, 2006 2010. Scores were analyzed using repeated-measurement analysis. A focus group interviews captured students' instructors' perceptions...

Student response system or clickers is an electronic application where a receiver in the instructor's computer captures responses to questions from student keypads. Used effectively, can promote learner engagement and serve improve learning. It be used variety of ways such as provide feedback learners instructor, start discussions, for peer evaluation, formative summative assessment, build learning community, experiment on human responses.Using our experience use this technology literature...

Creativity is universally recognized as a vital characteristic in education, research and science, arts design, engineering technology, marketing advertising, business entrepreneurship. Specifically, creativity an essential quality design-based domains, particularly architecture. Given the existing limitations prior research, primarily consisting of theoretical descriptions or investigations with restricted parameters, this study employs comprehensive empirical methodology to examine...

The purpose of this study was to identify changes in dental students' self-directed learning (SDL) readiness during their education. Guglielmino's SDL scale (SDLRS) completed at admission by students the University Saskatchewan and end each year training. response rates varied from year. Between twenty-seven thirty questionnaire (93-100 percent entering class). numbers participants were lower succeeding years: used for analysis ranged eleven twenty-six; years which fewer than participated...

Background. Massage therapy is a noninvasive treatment that many individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS) use to supplement their conventional treatment. Objective. We hypothesize massage will improve the leg function and overall quality of life (QoL) MS patients. Design. A two-period (rest, massage) crossover design was used. Twenty-four ranging from 3.0 7.0 on Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) received Swedish treatments for four weeks. Exercise capacity as well QoL were assessed...

Introduction: Dental anxiety is a distressing challenge faced by both the patients and dental care provider, particularly in Department of Orthodontics. The goal this study was to assess effect aromatherapy (oils) on level among orthodontic compare levels between lavender oil, rose placebo. Materials methods: A total 72 (36 men 36 women) who reported Orthodontics were selected randomly allocated into three groups: ambient odor those oils or placebo maintained with candle warmer, made wait...

Diabetes is increasingly widespread among Indigenous people, and diabetic retinopathy (DR) a diabetes eye complication common cause of vision loss adults in Canada. women have high risk which increases their for DR. This study explored utilizing mobile health (mHealth) via text messages to provide DR awareness improve diabetic-eye care behavior. identified the changes behavior due mHealth education intervention with or at diabetes.

OPEN ACCESSJanuary 26, 2010Mentoring Principles, Processes, and Strategies for Facilitating Mentoring Relationships at a Distance Kalyani Premkumar, MBBS, MD, MSc, PhD, Angie Wong, PhD University of Saskatchewan College Medicine , Saskatchewan: Center Distributed Learning & Instructional Design Group https://doi.org/10.15766/mep_2374-8265.3148 SectionsAboutAbstract ToolsDownload Citations ShareFacebookTwitterEmail AbstractAbstractThis web-based learning platform was developed use by faculty...

Indigenous peoples in Canada face numerous health needs and challenges often have poor status due to inequitable access care. Providing culturally appropriate support for conditions, particularly chronic conditions that require self-management, can assist averting complications morbidity. Mobile is a useful medium delivering education across different populations. However, meaningful user involvement necessary because mobile interventions suitable one population may not be another. people's...

While massage therapy (MT) is an increasingly used health care service with a growing evidence base, there insufficient information about the extent to which MT practice evidence-based. The purpose of this study was provide comprehensive view Saskatchewan MT's research utilization inform development evidence-based practice. main objectives were describe perceptions research, their appraised self-efficacy in literacy and identify characteristic practitioners who use research. Using survey...

Context and setting‘Games as Active Learning Strategies’ was 1 of 7 active learning workshops offered to faculty at the College Medicine, University Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. The workshop interactive conducted in a computer laboratory. Why idea necessary There is evidence show that games, defined by some ‘fun with purpose’, foster learning, allow for interactivity, promote collaboration, peer-learning teamwork, increase motivation. Despite their potential enhance there very little use...

Student Response Systems (Clickers) have been adopted by a number of instructors to increase interactions, student engagement and/or formative assessment and feedback especially in large group sessions. Clickers are well known as tools for active learning strategy particularly assessments. However, they rarely used assessments that count. With the advent clickers with display screen, attempts being made use summative exams. We examined feasibility their high stakes piloting such an simulated...

We found that actively engaging students in our introductory microbiology course was a challenge given large class sizes and many non-majors taking the as program requirement. Therefore, we introduced novel active learning strategy to course. Students grouped into teams of three had create PowerPoint virtual posters on one themes: (a) report microbe or immunology story news, b) interview research scientist, c) microbiological topic their choice. To assess intervention’s effectiveness, pre-...

Diabetes is a public health challenge in Canada with disproportionate number of Indigenous people, especially women, living diabetes. Diabetic retinopathy diabetes ocular complication and common cause blindness Canadian adults. Many individuals do not have regular diabetic eye screening. This study sought to determine the awareness care behaviour women or at risk was quantitative among 78 (First Nations Métis) Saskatoon, Canada. Data on were collected via knowledge, attitude, practice...

Rehabilitation services are an integral part of patient care, but in many developing countries, they not prioritized and either unavailable or easily accessible to those who need them. Although the for rehabilitation is increasing Honduras, workers included health care model that guides provided communities, particularly rural remote areas. To understand providing impactful disadvantaged we explored education perception community relating rehabilitation, investigated training available...