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Abstract Background: Osteoporosis is an underdiagnosed condition, and its seriousness is not considered until severe complications arise. This study aimed to evaluate general dentists' knowledge about osteoporosis and their ability to identify patients with this disease by assessing mandibular cortical width (MCW) and mandibular cortical index (MCI) on panoramic dental radiographs using a visual method. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, an email questionnaire regarding the diagnosis and prevention of osteoporosis was sent to 20,773 dentists in 2016. Those who completed the questionnaire were invited to participate in radiomorphometric training and then to analyze the MCI and MCW of 114 panoramic radiographs of postmenopausal women who underwent both panoramic radiography and bone densitometry. Based on the radiomorphometric indices and while blinded to the densitometry results, the dentists determined whether they would indicate densitometry for these patients. Results: The response rate was 2.3%: 485 dentists completed the questionnaire, and 50 evaluated panoramic radiographs using the MCW and MCI. All of them reported some knowledge about osteoporosis, but 41.6% demonstrated a misleading conceptualization of the disease. Approximately 90% reported minimal access to this information during graduation, and only 27.0% were exposed to the topic during their postgraduate studies. Interest in osteoporosis prevention was expressed by 70.7% of the respondents, and interest in learning the radiomorphometric indices was expressed by 99.0%. The sensitivity in the detection of low bone mineral density through the MCW and MCI was 52.9%, and the specificity was 64%. Conclusions: Brazilian dentists demonstrated insufficient knowledge about osteoporosis and a low ability to detect osteopenia or osteoporosis by applying radiomorphometric indices.
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OBJECTIVES: There is a growing trend of medical students using electronic devices for studying. This paper analyzes such trend and assesses if the utilization of devices is adequate to effectively help students to study. METHODS: Survey of total 155 medical students about the usage of the electronic devices for studying during the first year of medical school was done. The answers were matched with their exam scores in the first year. RESULTS: Most of students were using a device, as a learning tool and the most important purpose of it was its convenience, especially for taking notes during lectures. However, students who didn't use a device when they learned anatomy or who studied with the printouts showed a tendency of receiving better scores on exams. CONCLUSION: Utilizing electronic devices for studying tends to be more convenient, but not effective for studying anatomy.
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Humans , Educational Technology , Learning , Lecture , Schools, Medical , Students, MedicalABSTRACT
Professores que desejam utilizar a aprendizagem baseada em equipes (ABE) do inglês team-based learning (TBL) precisam compreender os princípios fundamentais envolvidos na aplicação desta estratégia educacional e a seqüência de eventos necessária para sua implantação efetiva. O objetivo deste artigo é auxiliar o leitor na compreensão do potencial desta estratégia educacional, incluindo sua capacidade de promover a aprendizagem significativa. Existem quatro princípios fundamentais para o uso eficaz do TBL, que serão descritos, assim como o passo-a-passo para quem deseja organizar um curso inteiro ou algumas atividades (aulas), utilizando a aprendizagem baseada em equipes. Ao final, apresentamos os principais atrativos e os desafios para aqueles que desejam incorporar o TBL à sua prática de ensino/aprendizagem.
Those faculty who want to use Team-based learning in their classes need to understand the basic principles behind this educational strategy and the required steps that should be followed to achieve an effective implementation. The aim of this article is offer a comprehensive view on TBLs potential as an educational tool, including the expected outcome of students meaningful learning and developmental teamwork. The four principles and a step-by-step process to design and deliver a TBL will be described in details, if one wants to use it for a whole discipline or only for isolated insertions within a course. At the end, it will be expected that the reader understand the main strengthens and weaknesses and could able to do an informed decision making about incorporating TBL or not in their teaching practices.
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Humans , Learning , Education, Medical, Continuing , Health Education/methods , Health Strategies , FeedbackABSTRACT
Objective To understand the status quo of medical graduates' professional faith and to evaluate the education methods. Methods Questionnaire survey combined with expert inter-view were conducted from two aspects: professional faith condition and educational methods. Medical graduates from an affiliated hospital of a university in Shanghai were investigated in this survey and 392 copies of effective questionnaires were analyzed comparatively. Results 92.6%(363/392) students regarded extreme events as the main factor that influence their further employment. 14.8%(58/392) students had career planning. 79.6%(312/392) students achieved self-improvement from strengthening learning and training. Salary was the main factor that affect medical graduates' career choice (4.47 points). 75.5%(296/392) students considered that the existing professional faith education was out of fashion. 85.5%(335/392) of students thought that education methods should be improved. Strengthen-ing relevant education career planning was considered as the most valuable content (4.22 points) and the most effective form was group learning (4.53 points). Conclusions The main reasons for devia-tion and dissatisfaction are:social factor, lack of professional faith, unique status and obsolete way of education. Professional faith education should take the above factors into consideration.
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La MNT es una disciplina de las Ciencias Médicas que es necesario estudiar y profundizar, forma parte importante del acervo cultural de la humanidad. Ella se ha desarrollado en cada país y región del mundo con características propias en dependencia de los recursos disponibles, tomando como base la idiosincrasia de sus habitantes. En las últimas décadas ha existido una tendencia mundial al uso de las terapias bioenergéticas que proviene de culturas milenarias, fundamentalmente de la medicina tradicional china. La Logopedia y Foniatría, encargada del diagnóstico y rehabilitación de los trastornos de la comunicación oral, es una ciencia joven, pero no por ello ajena al uso de la MNT en su práctica clínica. En el presente trabajo se vincula la MNT a los contenidos del programa de 2do año del curso regular del Perfil Logofonoaudiología en la carrera de Tecnología, específicamente en la asignatura Logopedia y Foniatría, que dentro de sus objetivos se plantea, desarrollar habilidades en la aplicación de métodos y procedimientos para el tratamiento logofoniátrico en casos de alteraciones en la comunicación, en correspondencia con las particularidades del trastorno y las características específicas de cada caso. Esta vinculación le posibilitará al estudiante ampliar otros métodos de tratamiento de estos pacientes, enriqueciendo el programa actual.
Natural and tradicional Medicine is a discipline of the Medical Sciences that it is necessary to study and deepen. It is an important part of the cultural resources of humanity. This medical discipline is being developed in every country and region all over the world, having proper characteristics, depending on the available resources and taking as a basis the idiosyncrasy of the population. In the last decades a worldwide trend towards the use of bioenergetic therapies coming from millennial cultures, especifically Chinese Traditional Medicine, is followed. Logopedics and Phoniatrics are the sciences that study the diagnosis and rehabilitations of the speech disorders. These are modern sciences, but Natural and Traditional Medicina (NTM) is also used in clinical practice of Logopedics and Phoniatrics. In the present work a link between NTM and the contents belonging to the second academic year of Logophonoaudiology is establishced in Health Technology major, mainly in the subjects of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, where the objectives are: to develop skills applying the methods and procedures for the logophoniatric treatment in cases that present speech disorders, taking into consideration the characteristics of the disorder and the psychological features in every case. This link will make it possible for the students to extend other methods of treatment of these patients, improving the current program.