scholarly journals Direct enhancement of readiness for wartime critical specialties by civilian-military partnerships for neurosurgical care: residency training and beyond

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. E17 ◽  
Author(s):  
David H. Shin ◽  
Kristopher G. Hooten ◽  
Brian D. Sindelar ◽  
Brian M. Corliss ◽  
William R. Y. Carlton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Full Time ◽  
Application Process ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Baylor University ◽  
National Capital ◽  
Integral Role ◽  
Military Neurosurgery ◽  
Level I ◽  
The University

Military neurosurgery has played an integral role in the development and innovation of neurosurgery and neurocritical care in treating battlefield injuries. It is of paramount importance to continue to train and prepare the next generation of military neurosurgeons. For the Army, this is currently primarily achieved through the military neurosurgery residency at the National Capital Consortium and through full-time out-service positions at the Veterans Affairs–Department of Defense partnerships with the University of Florida, the University of Texas–San Antonio, and Baylor University. The authors describe the application process for military neurosurgery residency and highlight the training imparted to residents in a busy academic and level I trauma center at the University of Florida, with a focus on how case variety and volume at this particular civilian-partnered institution produces neurosurgeons who are prepared for the complexities of the battlefield. Further emphasis is also placed on collaboration for research as well as continuing education to maintain the skills of nondeployed neurosurgeons. With ongoing uncertainty regarding future conflict, it is critical to preserve and expand these civilian-military partnerships to maintain a standard level of readiness in order to face the unknown with the confidence befitting a military neurosurgeon.

PA Comments

1987 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-22
Author(s):  
James Lett
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Local State ◽  
Full Time ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Cultural Anthropologist ◽  
Day Of The Week ◽  
The University

Since the spring of 1983, when I completed my doctorate in Anthropology at the University of Florida, I have been working as a broadcast journalist, most recently at the CBS television affiliate in Ft. Pierce, Florida, where I currently anchor and produce 40 minutes of local, state, and national news every day of the week. To my knowledge, I am the only professionally trained cultural anthropologist in the country who's working full-time as a television journalist, and that's something, I realize, that puzzles both anthropologists and journalists. As far as I'm concerned, however, I'm doing what I was trained to do: observe, record, describe, and explain human behavior—I'm just doing it in what is, for anthropologists, a non-traditional medium.

Systems engineering in health care: Overview and examples from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (34_suppl) ◽  
pp. 140-140
Author(s):  
Victoria S. Jordan
Keyword(s):  
Inventory Management ◽  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Physician Satisfaction ◽  
Cancer Center ◽  
Application Process ◽  
Statistical Process ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Diagnostic Center ◽  
Md Anderson ◽  
The University

140 Background: The University of Texas has six health institutions and Industrial and Systems Engineering faculty throughout university locations across the state. These academic medical centers, including MD Anderson Cancer Center, and schools of engineering, business, and medicine are partnering to implement Systems Engineering in healthcare throughout the UT system. The “systems approach to implementing Systems Engineering” is an opportunity to serve as a world-class model for collaboration across academic institutions for engineering, business, medicine, and healthcare organizations to implement Systems Engineering and systems thinking in healthcare. The objective of the collaboration is not just to produce successful projects, but to achieve transformational change. Methods: This presentation will provide an overview of Systems Engineering and provide examples of the different tools and strategies from the discipline including lean, six sigma, mathematical simulation, optimization and operations research, human factors, facility design layout, statistical process control, design of experiments, scheduling, supply chain and inventory management, staffing models, etc. Funding, leadership, training, and communication efforts associated with the effort will be reviewed including the grant application process for transformational efforts. (The implementation follows the PDSA process.) Results: Currently nine grants have been awarded in the UT system for implementing Systems Engineering. Results will be shared (in terms of cost savings and/or avoidance and patient satisfaction) from specific projects such as a lean effort in the Diagnostic Center and simulation models to schedule nurses in the OR and to determine resource requirements in the ICU. Conclusions: Systems Engineering is a valuable discipline that is relatively new to healthcare. Practicing clinical oncologists can increase efficiency, patient flow, and patient and physician satisfaction by applying Systems Engineering tools and strategies.

scholarly journals Leadership in research across academia and practice

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
John McRae
Keyword(s):  
Research Team ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Early Years ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Full Disclosure ◽  
Administrative Roles ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Small Benefit ◽  
Architectural Research ◽  
The University

Transcript of a keynote address delivered by John McRae at the 2009 ARCC Architectural Research Conference at the University of Texas San Antonio.I value very much the award and I certainly have truly enjoyed the time and the meeting these couple of days has been extremely stimulating. We were talking several of us ahead of time about the rigor and the intensity with which the programs are being presentedin each of the meetings. We really, I think, have the group here that’s going to be serving us well for thefuture.I want to also say today, in expressing my appreciation for this award, that the list of past awardees is stellarand includes several colleagues and personal friends towhom I owe a debt in my professional development and am grateful for the opportunity to address the conference and hope that my remarks with be of even a small benefit to our collective efforts to strengthen research across academia and practice. I started my career in both academia and practice in 1967, little more than the 30 years you were so gracious to give me, in Gainesville and at the University of Florida. Over this span of the last 42 years I have sought to develop my own research and creative work agenda and, through administrative roles, have made an effort to foster the research of colleagues when I could. So what was it like in the late 60’s and early70’s? Some of you may recall. In the interest of full disclosure, I have included a few images of my research work during my early years as a faculty member at the University of Florida. And so, here is another shot of our research team. Some of you may remember the Chicago 7. This is the rainbow 9 and, in fact, aside from myself, whom you will recognize, there are several other people there who are today in positions helping to lead this nation. That is kind of hard to imagine but there they are.

Commensality: Networks of personal, family, and community social transformation

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 664-680
Author(s):  
Meredith E. Abarca
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
El Paso ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Culturally Specific ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Level I ◽  
The University

Commensality is a term that has been used by social scientists to address the practices that lead people to share a meal at a common table. Recently, food scholars have focused beyond the actual act of sharing a meal to specifically study the networks of relationships that come together to make this sharing of a meal possible. Through the analysis of three food-centered oral histories I gathered in 2018–2019 for El Paso Food Voices digital project, part of the Institute of Oral History at the University of Texas at El Paso, I illustrate how an individual’s evolving relationship with food gives form to everyday commensalities. To understand the kinds of social transformations that emerge at the personal, familial, and community level, I am calling these commensalities ancestral, embodied, and responsible. The stories I present emphasize how each individual reached a turning point that changed them as cooks, infused food with culturally specific symbolism and socio-economic realities, and transformed cooking into an act of social responsibility. The overall goal is to stress that food is transformative and acts of significant social change are experienced through individuals’ everyday culinary practices.

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