(1) Some didactic implications concerning the significance of the chance set-up and reliance on analogies are discussed.
(2) Although 100 per cent claim that gastrointestinal endoscopy is provided by their program, only 76 per cent have formal endoscopy training, usually centered around the PGY 3 level, with only 23 per cent having didactic lectures in endoscopy.
(3) Graduate courses of medical pedagogy and special didactics at S. Paulo University Medical School are analysed.
(4) The first three months of the program are devoted to didactic training and the remaining six months to acquiring practical experience.
(5) If the steady flow of books which began with Economic Problems Of The Church (1955) can, to some extent, be seen as a succession of more scholarly explorations of the themes sketched out in the early didactic essays, they also reflect the extraordinary sweep of Hill's interests and mind.
(6) The use of the workshop as a didactical method in the presentation of clinical practica to community health nursing students at the distance teaching University of South Africa is described.
(7) Group 1 was given general objectives and information regarding availability of recommended resources, including self-learning materials for the elective, didactic seminars, and viewbox exposure.
(8) Interestingly, this study found that the students' self-assessed changes between post-didactic training and post-clinical training were significant in only one area--their ability to manage the medical emergencies of elderly patients, including a patient's death in the dental chair.
(9) The quality of the training to a great extent depends on the didactic skill, willingness to teach and a not inconsiderable expense of time for the chief physician, the assistant chief physician and the physician in charge of the wards during visits and when working in the ward.
(10) Many general surgeons have incorporated laparoscopic cholecystectomy into their clinical practices, usually after completing a postgraduate didactic and laboratory animal training course.
(11) The didactic value is underlined by color photographs taken of diseased skin and nails with the dermatoscope at various magnifications.
(12) This, also, is a didactic music workshop with a difference - part of an umbrella programme called Discovery, established 20 years ago by the LSO as the orchestra's outreach wing, with a mission not unlike that of Venezuela's Sistema, but streamlined over two decades for application to home ground.
(13) The 30-day hospital training program described includes both didactic material and on-the-job experience.
(14) Many programs (40%) have less than ten hours of didactic training in pediatrics and 41% offer ten hours or less of clinical experience.
(15) Training consisted of didactic presentations on the pathophysiology of alcohol withdrawal syndrome and information on use of the Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol (CIWA-A).
(16) This set of objectives may be used to guide a one-month radiology rotation or serve as part of a teaching program integrated with didactic training and emergency department experience.
(17) Didactic purposes and proof of plausibility may require more data than just the final results.
(18) Didactic teaching methods were exchanged for a more creative approach without alteration of the course structure.
(19) To introduce the residents to the principles of surgical techniques in a simulated environment outside the operating room, the program consisted of a combination of two didactic sessions and six "wet labs" taking 3 to 4 hours per week for 8 weeks between January and March each year.
(20) The sessions vary in structure from didactic lecture to group work.
Heuristic
Definition:
(a.) Serving to discover or find out.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two methods for diagnostic classification of the electrocardiogram are described: a heuristic one and a statistical one.
(2) Within the Theory of Dual Radiation Action, the heuristically useful function, gamma(chi), that two energy depositions, a distance chi apart, will result in observable damage can be written in terms of two more fundamental quantities: One, s(chi), describes the structure of the sensitive matrix of the cell.
(3) The immune alterations of Down's syndrome and those of infantile AIDS may be taken as heuristic examples in this sense.
(4) The authors point out the conceptual, heuristic, and practical clinical advantages of examining living preference rather than traditional correlates of hospital tenure.
(5) Use of the CGAS can be of heuristic value to complement other methods of diagnostic categorization.
(6) The generalization of the algorithm to reconstruct gene conversions and the possibility for heuristic versions of the algorithm for larger data sets are discussed.
(7) The clinical nurse specialists contributed many of the heuristics in the determination of self-care deficit as a nursing diagnosis.
(8) The present article suggests one means by which this may be achieved while still retaining the heuristic value of Matte Blanco's systems.
(9) A set of heuristics, employing information concerning nuclear hemoglobin content, is shown to discriminate nucleated erythrocytic cells from those of the leukocyte series.
(10) (i) knowledge about the processes of the system under investigation, expressed in terms of a Continuous System Simulation Language (CSSL); (ii) heuristic knowledge on how to reach the goals of the simulation experiment, expressed in terms of a Rule Description Language (RDL); and (iii) knowledge about the requirements of the intended users, expressed in terms of a User Interface Description Language (UIDL).
(11) In Duchenne muscular dystrophy the course of the different enzyme activities can be described by an heuristic mathematical formula (y = Ae-at + bte-ct).
(12) The starting points for energy minimizations were generated from the following two types of inputs: (a) the amino acid sequence and (b) the heuristic inputs, which were derived according to physical, chemical, and biological principles by piecing together all useful information available.
(13) Thirdly, neuropsychological-neurophysiological studies are "heuristic" fishing-expeditions to find a presumed abnormality to account for psychopathology, without doing the prospective longitudinal research necessary to validate such theory.
(14) Superficial knowledge level characterized by the intuitive reasoning from test results to diseases and deep knowledge level referring to the relations among the pathophysiologic states were stratified, and the heuristics based on the experiences at bed-side were incorporated in this knowledge representation.
(15) The heuristic models are equivalent to diffusion theory for diffuse incident light, but not for collimated incident light.
(16) While agreeing with Veatch's criticisms of unilateral ethical decision making by physicians, Kultgen argues that his contract model has only limited value--as a heuristic device for thinking about the principles underlying medical ethics--while conceptual difficulties preclude its serving to reconcile conflicting traditions in ethical theories or to achieve a consensus on a morally valid medical covenant.
(17) The use of a genetic marker as a heuristic diagnostic criterion in a subgroup of heredofamilial psychoses with unclear diagnostic boundaries is proposed.
(18) There were still quite a few Marxists at Oxford in those days – Terry Eagleton and his clique were seemingly bolted to the same table in the King’s Arms the entire time I was an undergraduate – but while I was silly and naive enough to believe in the purifying, energising effects of violent revolution, I wasn’t obtuse enough to think of dialectical materialism as anything more than a powerful heuristic.
(19) A six-factor model provides a heuristic framework for understanding adherence behavior: (1) effective provider communication; (2) rapport with provider; (3) client's beliefs and attitudes; (4) client's social climate and norms; (5) behavioral intentions; and (6) supports for and barriers to adherence.
(20) The heuristics modify and link the explanations to make the physician aware of diagnostic complexities.