An instrument to assess the outcomes of a teacher education program for residents.
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Biomedical subjects
R Arseneau
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Exit rounds: a reflection exercise.
This paper questions the long-held assumption that "experience is the best teacher". Reflection, it is argued, is the element that turns experience into learning. Unfortunately, reflection is the experiential learning skill in which student are most deficient. Further, clinical teachers may not appreciate the reciprocal and synergistic relationship of experience and reflection, and therefore they may not exploit its full potential. This paper argues for the formal and explicit use of reflection to clinical teaching. In addition to providing a theoretical rationale for the use of reflection is learning, one example of a reflection exercise--exit rounds--is described. Exit rounds focus on recently discharged patients and provide students with an opportunity to reflect on what they have learned from working with these patients. In addition to being a learning exercise, exit rounds provide attending physicians with an opportunity to address emotional issues, to evaluate students' learning and performances, to deal with "housekeeping" details, and to provide closure.
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Clinical significance of scintillation camera electronics capable of high processing rates.
The use of larger scintillation detectors with high-efficiency converging collimators has greatly increased the photon input rate to the crystals of scintillation cameras in many clinical studies. To process these high-count-rate data accurately, modifications have been made by some manufacturers in the electronics of scintillation cameras. Cameras with new electronic design were compared with earlier models with respect to count rate processing capability and the effect of high input rate on spatial resolution, pulse-pair pileup, image size, and instability of the amplification of energy pulses. The improvements with the new electronic design result in shorter imaging times, better preservation of resolution, increased statistical reliability, and reduced distortion of dynamic tracer curves used for quantitative analysis.
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