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Innovative curriculum for second-year Harvard-MIT medical students: practicing communication skills with volunteer patients giving immediate feedback

Nadaa B Ali,1 Stephen R Pelletier,2 Helen M Shields1 apunisw2 1Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 2Center for Evaluation, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA Purpose: Medical students are expected to develop excellent communication skills.The purpose of our study was to create an innovative communication skills exercise

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Active Learning Based on Crowdsourced Data

The paper proposes a crowdsourcing-based approach for annotated data acquisition and means to support Active click here Learning training approach.In the proposed solution, aimed at data engineers, the knowledge of the crowd serves as an oracle that is able to judge whether the given sample is informative or not.The proposed solution reduces the am

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Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of Vector-Borne Disease Prevention during the Emergence of a New Arbovirus: Implications for the Control of Chikungunya Virus in French Guiana.

BACKGROUND:During the last decade, French Guiana has been affected by major dengue fever outbreaks.Although this arbovirus has been a focus of many awareness campaigns, very little information is available about beliefs, attitudes and behaviors regarding vector-borne diseases among the population of French Guiana.During the first outbreak of the ch

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