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Research paper thumbnail of Medical teachers’ perception towards simulation-based medical education: A multicenter study in Saudi Arabia

Medical Teacher, 2016

This study aims to evaluate the perception of medical teachers toward the integration of simulati... more This study aims to evaluate the perception of medical teachers toward the integration of simulation-based medical education (SBME) in undergraduate curriculum and also identify contextual barriers faced by medical teachers. This cross-sectional observational study included medical teachers from three universities. A questionnaire was used to report teachers' perception. SBME was perceived by medical teachers (basic sciences/clinical, respectively) as enjoyable (71.1%/75.4%), effective assessment tool to evaluate students' learning (60%/73.9%) and can improve learning outcome (88.8%/79.7%). Similarly, (91.1%/71%) of teachers think that simulation should be part of the curriculum and not stand alone one time activity. Teachers' training for SBME has created a significant difference in perception (p < 0.05). Lack of teachers' training, time, resources and the need to integrate in medical curriculum are major perceived barriers for effective SBME. Results highlight the positive perception and attitude of medical teachers toward the integration of SBME in undergraduate curriculum. Prior formal training of teachers created a different perception. Top perceived barriers for effective SBME include teachers' formal training supported with time and resources and the early integration into the curriculum. These critical challenges need to be addressed by medical schools in order to enhance the integration SBME in undergraduate curricula.

Research paper thumbnail of Evaluation of a combined approach of clinical skills training utilizing near-peers, in-campus faculty and clinicians: An innovative integrated model

Medical Teacher, 2016

Training clinical skills is essential in medicine. Different models of clinical skills courses ha... more Training clinical skills is essential in medicine. Different models of clinical skills courses have been previously suggested. Here, we report an innovative approach adopted to train junior medical students in clinical skills in a multimodal fashion by near-peers, basic scientists with clinical background and senior clinicians. This quasi-experimental study was conducted at Alfaisal University College of Medicine at Riyadh. An electronic survey was conducted among year-2 and year-3 medical students seeking their perception about the (a) organization, (b) delivery, (c&d) self- and peer-assessment in clinical skills courses. Total 298 male and female medical students (91%), consisting of 164 from year 2 and 134 from year 3, participated by filling out a questionnaire (Cronbach's alpha 0.93). Out of maximum five, the average ratings for the course were 3.81, 3.72, 3.67 and 3.73 in organization, delivery, self-evaluation and peer-assessment respectively, with no significant difference between both subgroups. The in-campus sessions rated higher than hospital sessions (p < 0.001). As tutors, interns were rated higher than clinicians (p < 0.001). The qualitative analysis suggested high satisfaction. The clinical skills course that was conducted in a multimodal fashion utilizing diverse tutors showed a positive attitude of students toward the organization and delivery of the course.

Research paper thumbnail of Effects of STZ-Induced Diabetes on the Relative Weights of Kidney, Liver and Pancreas in Albino Rats: A Comparative Study

International Journal of Morphology, 2010

SUMMARY: We studied the effects of streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes on the body weights of a... more SUMMARY: We studied the effects of streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes on the body weights of animals and the relative weights of kidney, liver and pancreas in albino rats. The aim of the study was to find an association between the reduction in the body weights of diabetic ...

Research paper thumbnail of Multiple Arterial Variations in the Right Upper Limb of a Caucasian Male Cadaver

International Journal of Morphology, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of The Integrated Clinical Anatomy Program at Alfaisal University: an innovative model of teaching clinically applied functional anatomy in a hybrid curriculum

Advances in physiology education, 2016

Anatomy has historically been a cornerstone in medical education regardless of specialty. It is e... more Anatomy has historically been a cornerstone in medical education regardless of specialty. It is essential for physicians to be able to perform a variety of tasks, including performing invasive procedures, examining radiological images, performing a physical examination of a patient, etc. Medical students have to be prepared for such tasks, and we can assist this by changing the way that we educate students in medical schools. Thus, newer medical curricula need to be designed according to needs of future physicians. In this report, we describe a unique program called the Integrated Clinical Anatomy Program (ICAP). The ICAP was developed at the College of Medicine of Alfaisal University in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Here, we describe the unique features of this program, including the structure and facilities of the Anatomy Resource Center. The Anatomy Resource Center plays a pivotal role in engaging the students for faculty-directed structured laboratory sessions as well as peer-ass...

Research paper thumbnail of A comparison of two different proposed feature sets for trademark recognition using neural network

Proceedings. IEEE International Multi Topic Conference, 2001. IEEE INMIC 2001. Technology for the 21st Century., 2000

ABSTRACT. The problem of trademark recognition relates to pattern recognition. Pattern recognitio... more ABSTRACT. The problem of trademark recognition relates to pattern recognition. Pattern recognition needs as basis knowledge about the object. A possibility to get knowledge about the object is feature extraction with image processing tools. The success of any such practical system ...

Research paper thumbnail of Counterpropagation neural networks for trademark recognition

Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (Cat.No.01EX467), 2000

ABSTRACT This work considers the possibility of using the connected component algorithm for segme... more ABSTRACT This work considers the possibility of using the connected component algorithm for segmentation to extract the features inherent in the studied objects and Counterpropagation neural networks (CPN) for the learning capability for object recognition. Neural networks ...

Research paper thumbnail of Optimization of Base-Catalyzed Transesterification in Biodiesel Production from Refined Palm Oil via Circulation Process through Static Mixer Reactor

Advanced Materials Research, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of (Singular) state models and (singular) LTID systems

International Journal of Control, 2013

ABSTRACT In this paper, we offer a systematic development of state representation theory for sing... more ABSTRACT In this paper, we offer a systematic development of state representation theory for singular linear systems in the behavioural setting of Willems.

Research paper thumbnail of Addendum to ‘(Singular) state models and (singular) LTID systems’

International Journal of Control, 2014

ABSTRACT In this note, a construction of state representations of singular linear time-invariant ... more ABSTRACT In this note, a construction of state representations of singular linear time-invariant differential systems is described directly in terms of trajectories.

Research paper thumbnail of Developmental Process Study for Laboratory Scale Preparation of Barium Chromate

Research paper thumbnail of Comparison of Two Different Proposed Feature Vectors for Classification of Complex Image

Many applications of pattern recognition use a set of local features for recognition purpose. Ins... more Many applications of pattern recognition use a set of local features for recognition purpose. Instead of using only local features, this paper presents a method to extract features from image body globally as well. The system takes into account several geometrical effects such as area, Euclidean distance etc and their different ratios. It utilizes thresholding and region extraction methods for

Research paper thumbnail of Moving human detection and recognition in videos using adaptive method and support vector machine

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology - FIT '09, 2009

... Syed Sohaib Ali Department of Electronics Engineering International Islamic University Islama... more ... Syed Sohaib Ali Department of Electronics Engineering International Islamic University Islamabad, Pakistan sohaibali2001@hotmail.com ... 1, 2, 206–214. [4] Alper Yilmaz, Omar Javed, Mubarak Shah “Object Tracking: A Survey” ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 38, No. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Improving the current density and the coulombic efficiency by a cascade reaction of glucose oxidizing enzymes

Research paper thumbnail of Multi-layer call admission architecture for assured QOS in CDMA2000 packet data networks

Communications and Computer Networks, 2005

MULTI-LAYER CALL ADMISSION ARCHITECTURE FOR ASSURED QOS IN CDMA2000 PACKET DATA NETWORKS Muhammad... more MULTI-LAYER CALL ADMISSION ARCHITECTURE FOR ASSURED QOS IN CDMA2000 PACKET DATA NETWORKS Muhammad Adeel, Waqar Mahmood, Ahsan A. Chaudhry, Rizwan Ahmad NUST Institute of Information Technology, Rawalpindi, Pakistan {adeel, drwaqar ...

Research paper thumbnail of Quality assurance of herbal drug valerian by chemotaxonomic markers

The quality assurance of valerian (Balchur), a traditional herbal drug of global importance mainl... more The quality assurance of valerian (Balchur), a traditional herbal drug of global importance mainly used for nervous disorders, was studied. At global, regional, national and local levels the end users of this drug face the problems of adulteration. Two different botanical sources are commercially marketed in the Indo-Pak subcontinent under the same trade name of Balchur belonging to two different

Research paper thumbnail of Detection and Recognition of Human in Videos Using Adaptive Method and Neural Net

2009 International Conference of Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition, 2009

... scenes”. IEEE Trans. Patt. Analy. Mach. Intell. 1, 2, 206–214. [4] Alper Yilmaz, Omar Javed, ... more ... scenes”. IEEE Trans. Patt. Analy. Mach. Intell. 1, 2, 206–214. [4] Alper Yilmaz, Omar Javed, Mubarak Shah “Object Tracking: A Survey” ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 38, No. 4, Article 13, Publication date: December 2006. [5 ...

Research paper thumbnail of Performance Comparison of 2D-Discrete Cosine Transform and 2D-Discrete Wavelet Transform for Neural Network-Based Face Detection

2009 International Conference of Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition, 2009

... Moeen Tayyab International Islamic University, Islamabad moeentayyab@hotmail.comZafar MF Isla... more ... Moeen Tayyab International Islamic University, Islamabad moeentayyab@hotmail.comZafar MF Islamabad, Pakistan zafarfm@ymail.com Syed Sohaib Ali International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan sohaibali2001@hotmail.com ...

Research paper thumbnail of Resource Management Services for a Grid Analysis Environment

2005 International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops (ICPPW'05), 2005

Research paper thumbnail of Altered Kidney Morphology and Enzymes in Streptozotocin Induced Diabetic Rats

International Journal of Morphology, 2009

SUMMARY: We studied the effects of streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes on kidney morphology, an... more SUMMARY: We studied the effects of streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes on kidney morphology, anatomy, architecture and on the activities of aminotransferases (AST and ALT), alkaline phosphatase (ALP) and pseudocholinesterase (PChE) in albino rats. The ...

Research paper thumbnail of Medical teachers’ perception towards simulation-based medical education: A multicenter study in Saudi Arabia

Medical Teacher, 2016

This study aims to evaluate the perception of medical teachers toward the integration of simulati... more This study aims to evaluate the perception of medical teachers toward the integration of simulation-based medical education (SBME) in undergraduate curriculum and also identify contextual barriers faced by medical teachers. This cross-sectional observational study included medical teachers from three universities. A questionnaire was used to report teachers' perception. SBME was perceived by medical teachers (basic sciences/clinical, respectively) as enjoyable (71.1%/75.4%), effective assessment tool to evaluate students' learning (60%/73.9%) and can improve learning outcome (88.8%/79.7%). Similarly, (91.1%/71%) of teachers think that simulation should be part of the curriculum and not stand alone one time activity. Teachers' training for SBME has created a significant difference in perception (p < 0.05). Lack of teachers' training, time, resources and the need to integrate in medical curriculum are major perceived barriers for effective SBME. Results highlight the positive perception and attitude of medical teachers toward the integration of SBME in undergraduate curriculum. Prior formal training of teachers created a different perception. Top perceived barriers for effective SBME include teachers' formal training supported with time and resources and the early integration into the curriculum. These critical challenges need to be addressed by medical schools in order to enhance the integration SBME in undergraduate curricula.

Research paper thumbnail of Evaluation of a combined approach of clinical skills training utilizing near-peers, in-campus faculty and clinicians: An innovative integrated model

Medical Teacher, 2016

Training clinical skills is essential in medicine. Different models of clinical skills courses ha... more Training clinical skills is essential in medicine. Different models of clinical skills courses have been previously suggested. Here, we report an innovative approach adopted to train junior medical students in clinical skills in a multimodal fashion by near-peers, basic scientists with clinical background and senior clinicians. This quasi-experimental study was conducted at Alfaisal University College of Medicine at Riyadh. An electronic survey was conducted among year-2 and year-3 medical students seeking their perception about the (a) organization, (b) delivery, (c&d) self- and peer-assessment in clinical skills courses. Total 298 male and female medical students (91%), consisting of 164 from year 2 and 134 from year 3, participated by filling out a questionnaire (Cronbach's alpha 0.93). Out of maximum five, the average ratings for the course were 3.81, 3.72, 3.67 and 3.73 in organization, delivery, self-evaluation and peer-assessment respectively, with no significant difference between both subgroups. The in-campus sessions rated higher than hospital sessions (p < 0.001). As tutors, interns were rated higher than clinicians (p < 0.001). The qualitative analysis suggested high satisfaction. The clinical skills course that was conducted in a multimodal fashion utilizing diverse tutors showed a positive attitude of students toward the organization and delivery of the course.

Research paper thumbnail of Effects of STZ-Induced Diabetes on the Relative Weights of Kidney, Liver and Pancreas in Albino Rats: A Comparative Study

International Journal of Morphology, 2010

SUMMARY: We studied the effects of streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes on the body weights of a... more SUMMARY: We studied the effects of streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes on the body weights of animals and the relative weights of kidney, liver and pancreas in albino rats. The aim of the study was to find an association between the reduction in the body weights of diabetic ...

Research paper thumbnail of Multiple Arterial Variations in the Right Upper Limb of a Caucasian Male Cadaver

International Journal of Morphology, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of The Integrated Clinical Anatomy Program at Alfaisal University: an innovative model of teaching clinically applied functional anatomy in a hybrid curriculum

Advances in physiology education, 2016

Anatomy has historically been a cornerstone in medical education regardless of specialty. It is e... more Anatomy has historically been a cornerstone in medical education regardless of specialty. It is essential for physicians to be able to perform a variety of tasks, including performing invasive procedures, examining radiological images, performing a physical examination of a patient, etc. Medical students have to be prepared for such tasks, and we can assist this by changing the way that we educate students in medical schools. Thus, newer medical curricula need to be designed according to needs of future physicians. In this report, we describe a unique program called the Integrated Clinical Anatomy Program (ICAP). The ICAP was developed at the College of Medicine of Alfaisal University in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Here, we describe the unique features of this program, including the structure and facilities of the Anatomy Resource Center. The Anatomy Resource Center plays a pivotal role in engaging the students for faculty-directed structured laboratory sessions as well as peer-ass...

Research paper thumbnail of A comparison of two different proposed feature sets for trademark recognition using neural network

Proceedings. IEEE International Multi Topic Conference, 2001. IEEE INMIC 2001. Technology for the 21st Century., 2000

ABSTRACT. The problem of trademark recognition relates to pattern recognition. Pattern recognitio... more ABSTRACT. The problem of trademark recognition relates to pattern recognition. Pattern recognition needs as basis knowledge about the object. A possibility to get knowledge about the object is feature extraction with image processing tools. The success of any such practical system ...

Research paper thumbnail of Counterpropagation neural networks for trademark recognition

Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (Cat.No.01EX467), 2000

ABSTRACT This work considers the possibility of using the connected component algorithm for segme... more ABSTRACT This work considers the possibility of using the connected component algorithm for segmentation to extract the features inherent in the studied objects and Counterpropagation neural networks (CPN) for the learning capability for object recognition. Neural networks ...

Research paper thumbnail of Optimization of Base-Catalyzed Transesterification in Biodiesel Production from Refined Palm Oil via Circulation Process through Static Mixer Reactor

Advanced Materials Research, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of (Singular) state models and (singular) LTID systems

International Journal of Control, 2013

ABSTRACT In this paper, we offer a systematic development of state representation theory for sing... more ABSTRACT In this paper, we offer a systematic development of state representation theory for singular linear systems in the behavioural setting of Willems.

Research paper thumbnail of Addendum to ‘(Singular) state models and (singular) LTID systems’

International Journal of Control, 2014

ABSTRACT In this note, a construction of state representations of singular linear time-invariant ... more ABSTRACT In this note, a construction of state representations of singular linear time-invariant differential systems is described directly in terms of trajectories.

Research paper thumbnail of Developmental Process Study for Laboratory Scale Preparation of Barium Chromate

Research paper thumbnail of Comparison of Two Different Proposed Feature Vectors for Classification of Complex Image

Many applications of pattern recognition use a set of local features for recognition purpose. Ins... more Many applications of pattern recognition use a set of local features for recognition purpose. Instead of using only local features, this paper presents a method to extract features from image body globally as well. The system takes into account several geometrical effects such as area, Euclidean distance etc and their different ratios. It utilizes thresholding and region extraction methods for

Research paper thumbnail of Moving human detection and recognition in videos using adaptive method and support vector machine

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology - FIT '09, 2009

... Syed Sohaib Ali Department of Electronics Engineering International Islamic University Islama... more ... Syed Sohaib Ali Department of Electronics Engineering International Islamic University Islamabad, Pakistan sohaibali2001@hotmail.com ... 1, 2, 206–214. [4] Alper Yilmaz, Omar Javed, Mubarak Shah “Object Tracking: A Survey” ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 38, No. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Improving the current density and the coulombic efficiency by a cascade reaction of glucose oxidizing enzymes

Research paper thumbnail of Multi-layer call admission architecture for assured QOS in CDMA2000 packet data networks

Communications and Computer Networks, 2005

MULTI-LAYER CALL ADMISSION ARCHITECTURE FOR ASSURED QOS IN CDMA2000 PACKET DATA NETWORKS Muhammad... more MULTI-LAYER CALL ADMISSION ARCHITECTURE FOR ASSURED QOS IN CDMA2000 PACKET DATA NETWORKS Muhammad Adeel, Waqar Mahmood, Ahsan A. Chaudhry, Rizwan Ahmad NUST Institute of Information Technology, Rawalpindi, Pakistan {adeel, drwaqar ...

Research paper thumbnail of Quality assurance of herbal drug valerian by chemotaxonomic markers

The quality assurance of valerian (Balchur), a traditional herbal drug of global importance mainl... more The quality assurance of valerian (Balchur), a traditional herbal drug of global importance mainly used for nervous disorders, was studied. At global, regional, national and local levels the end users of this drug face the problems of adulteration. Two different botanical sources are commercially marketed in the Indo-Pak subcontinent under the same trade name of Balchur belonging to two different

Research paper thumbnail of Detection and Recognition of Human in Videos Using Adaptive Method and Neural Net

2009 International Conference of Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition, 2009

... scenes”. IEEE Trans. Patt. Analy. Mach. Intell. 1, 2, 206–214. [4] Alper Yilmaz, Omar Javed, ... more ... scenes”. IEEE Trans. Patt. Analy. Mach. Intell. 1, 2, 206–214. [4] Alper Yilmaz, Omar Javed, Mubarak Shah “Object Tracking: A Survey” ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 38, No. 4, Article 13, Publication date: December 2006. [5 ...

Research paper thumbnail of Performance Comparison of 2D-Discrete Cosine Transform and 2D-Discrete Wavelet Transform for Neural Network-Based Face Detection

2009 International Conference of Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition, 2009

... Moeen Tayyab International Islamic University, Islamabad moeentayyab@hotmail.comZafar MF Isla... more ... Moeen Tayyab International Islamic University, Islamabad moeentayyab@hotmail.comZafar MF Islamabad, Pakistan zafarfm@ymail.com Syed Sohaib Ali International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan sohaibali2001@hotmail.com ...

Research paper thumbnail of Resource Management Services for a Grid Analysis Environment

2005 International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops (ICPPW'05), 2005

Research paper thumbnail of Altered Kidney Morphology and Enzymes in Streptozotocin Induced Diabetic Rats

International Journal of Morphology, 2009

SUMMARY: We studied the effects of streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes on kidney morphology, an... more SUMMARY: We studied the effects of streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes on kidney morphology, anatomy, architecture and on the activities of aminotransferases (AST and ALT), alkaline phosphatase (ALP) and pseudocholinesterase (PChE) in albino rats. The ...