Academic Articles & Research Papers

Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching and the Mathematical Quality of Instruction: An Exploratory Study

This study illuminates claims that teachers' mathematical knowledge plays an important role in their teaching of this subject matter. In particular, we focus on teachers' mathematical knowledge for teaching (MKT), which includes both the ma...

What Is Mathematics?

Abstract For more than two thousand years a familiarity with mathematics has been regarded as an indispensable part of the intellectual equipment of every cultured person. Today, unfortunately, the traditional place of mathematics in educat...

India cardiology training curriculum- a critical reappraisal: Is it the time to rethink?

The challenges and rigors of the modern-day health care systems demand a critical reappraisal of our training paradigms in cardiology. Today, modern day DM and DNB Cardiology training needs to seamlessly amalgamate traditional teaching meth...

Knowledge sharing of health technology for students in universities of technology

Knowledge sharing of technology innovation is the main developmental force in the 21st century knowledge-based economy. This study aims to research the factors of students' knowledge sharing of health technology in universities of technolog...

Operationalizing preparedness: bridging the “Know-Do” gap in Rwanda’s infectious disease policy

Skilled antenatal care services utilisation in sub-Saharan Africa: a pooled analysis of demographic and health surveys from 32 countries

Abstract Background Each day, an estimated 800 women die from preventable pregnancy and childbirth related complications, where 99% of these avoidable deaths happen in low-and middle-income countries. Skilled attendance during antenatal car...

Displacement and Emplacement of Health Technology

The provision of “closer-to-patient” services has increased in most industrialized countries. However, the migration of services in non-traditional health care settings implies redefining the role of technical and human entities and transfo...

The status of medical informatics in Canadian medical schools.

Many have suggested that information technology in its various forms will continue to have an effect on all aspects of medicine, including medical education. If so, the introduction of information technology into medicine brings with it cri...

Medical Informatics Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Abstract: Medical informatics, as a separate medical discipline, is quickly developing in our country, both in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In our country, medical informatics has been a separate subject for the last ten years with regard to Med...

Training residents in medical informatics.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: A number of medical educators have called for an increased emphasis on medical informatics training, but few family practice residency programs have provided more than cursory teaching efforts in this area. This p...

Standardization in Health and Medical Informatics

Standard is a thing or quality or specification by which something may be tested or measured. The development of standards is organized on a global, international level, existing also on a national level, well harmonized with an internation...

Caring for Computers: The Hidden Work of Clinical Nurses during the Introduction of Health Information Systems in a Teaching Hospital in Taiwan

Implementing health information systems for enhancing patient care and management occurs worldwide. Discovering how nurses, as important system end-users, experience technology-reliant clinical practice involved focus groups (n = 25) and in...

Classroom Management Strategies of Multigrade Schools with Emphasis on the Role of Technology

Introduction : It appears that the effectiveness of a multigrade school class is dependent on the type of class management. Therefore this study aims to determine the classroom management strategies in multigrade schools with emphasis on th...

Medical Informatics in Medical Research

OBJECTIVES: Computers are widely used for data management in clinical trials in the developed countries, unlike in developing countries. Dependable systems are vital for data management, and medical decision making in clinical research. Mon...

Standardization in Health and Medical Informatics

Standard is a thing or quality or specification by which something may be tested or measured. The development of standards is organized on a global, international level, existing also on a national level, well harmonized with an internation...

A Focus on Simulation in Medical Informatics

This special issue of JAMIA addresses simulation, a methodology that holds great promise for the advancement of information technology in health care. Simulation has been termed a third domain, complementing both natural language and mathem...

The History and New Trends of Medical Informatics

ABSTRACT The breakthrough of the computer and information technologies in all the segments of the society, led to the needs for the computer and information technologies. The knowledge of information technology is now part of general litera...

Contribution of EFMI to development of medical informatics. European Federation for Medical Informatics.

The European Federation for Medical Informatics has been established in 1976. At the MIE 96 it has celebrated the 20th anniversary of its existence. During these 20 years the number of number of national societies who became a member has be...

The Cornerstones of Medical Informatics

The changes in the health care system over the next decade are goint to make the last 20 years seem like good old days of relative stability. We will continue to see new drugs, new devices, and new techniques; however, the true megachanges ...

Hiperentorno como medio de enseñanza del proceso atención de enfermería a pacientes con afecciones osteomioarticulares

Fundamento: En la enseñanza de las ciencias de la salud los medios informáticos ocupan un lugar fundamental. Objetivo: Determinar la pertinencia de un hiperentorno en la enseñanza-aprendizaje de la atención de enfermería a pacientes con afe...