An interactive, web-based tool for learning anatomic landmarks.

Purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of a Web-based interactive teaching tool that uses self-assessment exercises with real-time feedback to aid students' learning in a gross anatomy class.

Method: A total of 107 of 124 first-year medical students at one school were enrolled in the study. Students were divided into three groups: Group 1 (n = 63) received introductory material and activated their Web-based accounts; Group 2 (n = 44) received introductory material but did not activate their Web-based accounts; and Group 3 (n = 17) were not enrolled in the study and received no introductory material.

Traumatic brain injury/chronic pain syndrome: a case comparison study.

Objective: To identify the pretreatment characteristics and progress in treatment and outcomes of chronic pain patients, with and without concomitant traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Design And Patients: Retrospective cohort study of 12 consecutive patients in a chronic pain treatment program who were discovered to have previously untreated brain injury and a cohort of 12 chronic pain patients from the same program matched for age and sex who did not have brain injury.

Setting: Interdisciplinary university-based outpatient rehabilitation medicine clinic.

Employment following severe traumatic brain injury: the utility of the Individual Ability Profile system (IAP).

The results of a survey of employment outcome and their relationship to psychometric indices indicated that competitive employment following severe traumatic brain injury is an ambitious endeavor. While 98% of the subjects sampled were either employed or in school premorbidly, 43% of the subjects were unemployed postinjury. Specifically, the Individual Ability Profile (IAP) ([Dean, 1982][Dean, 1983]) variables developed to assist in the clinical interpretation of the results of the WAIS-R were most highly related to employment outcome.

Marital status and adjustment to spinal cord injury.

Individuals with spinal cord injury were studied in 1974 (N = 256), 1985 (N = 347) and 1989 (N = 286) using the Life Situation Questionnaire (LSQ). The latter surveys included nearly all of the surviving participants from the 1974 sample plus a new sample of individuals with more recent injuries. Items covered activities, frequency of medical treatment, ratings of satisfaction with various aspects of life, ratings of problem areas, and judgments regarding personal adjustment to SCI.