Beta-hydroxy beta-methylbutyrate, popularly referred to as HMB, is a supplement that may act as a "protein breakdown suppressor" and thus can serve as a performance facilitator for resistance training, such as weight lifting.
Our aim was to study trainees' (leaders' and followers') and trainers' (teachers' or facilitators') performance, mental strain and flow experience during in situ team training using either a low-fidelity model (LFM) or a high-fidelity paediatric simulator (HFS).
While some negative student comments pertained to facilitator performance in the group process (e.g. interfering with the group process), others related to facilitators not being in touch with programme details (e.g. timetables, assessment procedures).
Monitoring of ECD facilitator performance is insufficient.
Facilitator performance needs to be linked with their payment.
Infrastructural challenges such as poor internet and inadequate space and equipment affect both participants and facilitators' performances.
Team Objective Structured Bedside Assessment (TOSBA) is a learning approach in which a team of medical students undertake a set of structured clinical tasks with real patients in order to reach a diagnosis and formulate a management plan and receive immediate feedback on their performance from a facilitator.
One must bear in mind that facilitator performance might be influenced by several contextual factors [ 9, 16, 23]: student prior knowledge, familiarity with the PBL tutorial process, problem design [ 16], department affiliation, group composition [ 9], cultural and gender differences [ 24] and group productivity [ 10].
Since a focus of the intervention was on using data to assess programme performance, the project facilitator helped supervisors to identify data errors during monthly facility visits and attempts were made to correct the data as much as possible, however some minor errors may still exist.
The paper presents a hypothesis, and its experimental validation, on virtual environments, i.e. Virtual Reality based interfaces, which hide the real appearance of their interlocutors, as enablers, or facilitators, of performance of dynamically reconfigurable "virtual" teams in Concurrent/Collaborative Engineering.
