Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Medical Education (3)
- Curriculum and Instruction (2)
- Education (2)
- Educational Methods (2)
- Public Health (2)
-
- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment (1)
- Arts and Humanities (1)
- Cardiovascular Diseases (1)
- Diseases (1)
- Epidemiology (1)
- History (1)
- International Public Health (1)
- Life Sciences (1)
- Medical Pharmacology (1)
- Medical Sciences (1)
- Nutrition (1)
- Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases (1)
- Other Medicine and Health Sciences (1)
- Other Nutrition (1)
- Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration (1)
- Social and Behavioral Sciences (1)
- Keyword
-
- Active learning (1)
- Commentary (1)
- Conceptual knowledge (1)
- Content analysis (1)
- Diabetes (1)
-
- Epidemic (1)
- Epidemiology (1)
- HIV/AIDS (1)
- Heart disease (1)
- Howard Barrows (1)
- Inquiry (1)
- Medical technology (1)
- Medicine (1)
- Obesity (1)
- Overweight (1)
- PBL (1)
- PBL tutorial (1)
- POC tests (1)
- Point-of-care (1)
- Problem-Based Learning in Health Sciences (1)
- Problem-based learning (1)
- Public health (1)
- Self-directed assessments (1)
- Student-centered learning (1)
Articles 1 - 5 of 5
Full-Text Articles in Medicine and Health Sciences
The Obesity Epidemic, Lenka Kollar, Evienne Epifano, Molly Mckneight, Jeff Miskovich, Heather Moore
The Obesity Epidemic, Lenka Kollar, Evienne Epifano, Molly Mckneight, Jeff Miskovich, Heather Moore
Student Papers in Public Policy
The incidence of chronic, noncommunicable diseases, such as heart disease, is increasing at an alarming rate on the global scale. The growing prevalence of overweight and obesity have led to an upsurge in cases of diabetes and other obesity-related diseases. About 18 million people die every year from heart disease, of which diabetes and obesity are major predisposing factors. Worldwide, more than 1.1 billion adults are overweight, 312 million of which are obese. The number of children that are overweight or obese is also growing (Hossain, Parvez et al.). Obesity, and the associated diseases, has become a worldwide epidemic and …
Maximizing The Delivery Performance Of Point-Of-Care Cd4+ T-Cell Counting Tests In Resource-Limited Settings - A Policy Brief, Nan Kong, J. Paul Robinson, Fenggang Yang
Maximizing The Delivery Performance Of Point-Of-Care Cd4+ T-Cell Counting Tests In Resource-Limited Settings - A Policy Brief, Nan Kong, J. Paul Robinson, Fenggang Yang
Purdue Policy Research Institute (PPRI) Policy Briefs
Managing HIV/AIDS presents challenges to public health policymakers, frontline workers, and researchers worldwide. A key strategy in the disease management is early diagnosis and rapid treatment initiation. While the technological field of point‐of‐care HIV/AIDS diagnostics has advanced significantly in the past two decades, several critical issues remain that hinder the deployment of point‐of‐care testing devices in resource‐deprived settings. In this policy brief, we discuss these issues, including technological specifics of point‐of‐care CD4+ T‐cell counting approaches and requirements of deploying them. We also discuss cultural and religious concerns on the deployment. At the end of the brief, we propose a …
Drugs, Devices, And Desires: A Problem-Based Learning Course In The History Of Medicine, Sarah Levitt, Anne Mckeage, P. K. Rangachari
Drugs, Devices, And Desires: A Problem-Based Learning Course In The History Of Medicine, Sarah Levitt, Anne Mckeage, P. K. Rangachari
Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning
Problem-based learning (PBL) is well suited for courses in the history of medicine, where multiple perspectives exist and information has to be gleaned from different sources. A student, an archivist, and a teacher offer three perspectives about a senior level course where students explored the antecedents and consequences of medical technology. Two active learning strategies were used: (a) PBL to explore the historical basis of procedures used to diagnose, prevent and treat a single disease, tuberculosis, and (b) a concurrent inquiry-based component that permitted individual exploration of other medical technologies and demonstration of learning through diverse options (book reviews, conversations, …
Commentary For The Special Issue: Pbl Scholarship: Building On The Educational Vision Of Howard Barrows, Peggy A. Ertmer
Commentary For The Special Issue: Pbl Scholarship: Building On The Educational Vision Of Howard Barrows, Peggy A. Ertmer
Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning
In this commentary, I discuss each of the seven articles included in this special issue, which, as a collection, honor the impact of Howard Barrows’ vision on the scholarship and practice of problem-based learning (PBL). Collectively, these articles represent a variety of contexts, content areas, delivery formats, and structures in PBL implementations and research. Each article is examined and evaluated for specific information that practitioners and researchers may use in their future PBL efforts.
Creating A Learning Space In Problem-Based Learning, Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver
Creating A Learning Space In Problem-Based Learning, Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver
Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning
An important aspect of PBL problems is the affordances that they hold for engaging students in discussion of important content knowledge. In this paper, I argue that one can analyze a problem in terms of a deep problem space and a broader learning space to identify the conceptual ideas for potential engagement. The problem space refers to the specific ideas and concepts that are part of the goals of the problem at hand. The learning space includes those aspects of the problem space and also includes the broader space of related conceptual ideas such as the anatomy and physiology related …