scholarly journals An innovative approach for training medical students for the real world of public health

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Stebbins ◽  
Sean Tackett ◽  
Charles J. Vukotich
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Real World ◽  
Innovative Approach ◽  
The Real

Risk communication and non-linearity

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Ropeik
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Risk Perception ◽  
Risk Communication ◽  
Real World ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
The Real ◽  
School Of Public Health ◽  
Perception Gap ◽  
Harvard School

This article will consider non-linearity and hormesis from the perspectives of risk perception and risk communication. The observations that follow do not come from a scientist or researcher. (For a richer academic treatment of the issue of risk communication and nonlinearity, see BELLE, Vol. 11, Issue 1, 2002). I was for 25 years a journalist on television and in print, focusing on coverage of environmental issues. I then studied and taught risk perception and risk communication at the Harvard School of Public Health. I now independently consult in these areas. From the academic side, I have read a fair amount of the literature that helps explain what I call ‘The Perception Gap,’ the gap between our fears and the facts. And as a journalist and consultant I have witnessed in the real world, people’s relatively greater fear of lesser risks, and relatively lower fear of the risks the scientific data suggest they ought to worry about more. I offer the following perspectives based on those foundations.

The Real-World Writing Project for Public Health Students: A Description and Evaluation

2020 ◽  
pp. 237337992092809
Author(s):  
Olivia S. Anderson ◽  
Ella August
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Real World ◽  
Community Partner ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
The Real ◽  
Writing Project ◽  
Online Evaluation ◽  
Midwestern University ◽  
Future Work

Writing is a key skill for Public Health students, but instructors are not necessarily trained in how to teach writing. The Real-World Writing Project requires students to produce a writing project proposed by a community partner, for example, a report. The project includes multiple assignments that incorporate recommended characteristics for effective assigned writing. This article describes implementation of this project in two Public Health undergraduate courses at a large Midwestern University, including the type of products students produced, the number and type of community partners who participated, and student and community partner evaluations. Anonymous online evaluation surveys were distributed to community partners and students. We received responses from 19 community partners and 53 students. Partners were satisfied with the quality of 94% of the student products and were satisfied with their overall experience with the Real-World Writing Project (mean rating 5.14 on 6-point Likert-type scale, where 6 = extremely satisfied). Partners rated 85% of students as having satisfactory communication with them and were satisfied with the professionalism of 94% of students. Ninety-four percent of students reported being satisfied with the final product they produced and 84% of students indicated that working with their community partner was “very easy.” Students reported that the Real-World Writing Project was beneficial to them versus a more traditional assignment (mean response of 8.0 [ SD 2.3], where 1 represented the least and 10 represented the most satisfaction). Future work will include an evaluation of the project within graduate-level courses.

Public Health: Priorities and Policy Setting in the Real World

1983 ◽  
Vol 403 (1 Science and P) ◽  
pp. 61-68
Author(s):  
ANITA S. CURRAN ◽  
AVIS W. EFFINGER ◽  
ERNESTINE S. PANTEL ◽  
JOHN P. CURRAN
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Real World ◽  
Health Priorities ◽  
The Real ◽  
Policy Setting

Transition to Life—A Sendoff to the Real World for Graduating Medical Students

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy C. Coates ◽  
Tahlia S. Spector ◽  
Sebastian Uijtdehaage
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Real World ◽  
The Real

Injustice

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Goodhart
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Real World ◽  
Moral Theory ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Innovative Approach ◽  
The Real ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Ways Of Thinking

Injustice offers a radical alternative to familiar ways of thinking about problems of justice and injustice, one motivated by the urgency of concrete struggles over injustice in the real world. It rejects the paradigm of ideal moral theory, which suffers from theoretical paralysis, distortional thinking, and a reflexive tendency to subordinate politics to morality. Instead, this book proposes an innovative approach that integrates realistic analysis of conflict, power, and politics with substantive normative critique and prescription. It does so by developing a bifocal theoretical framework that treats claims about justice and injustice as ideological claims. This framework enables theorists to shift their focus between two complementary perspectives, distinguishing the work of analyzing politics and advocating for particular substantive points of view. The book outlines a substantive democratic account of injustice and uses it to show what practical difference it makes if one adopts the approach it recommends. Injustice describes the work that political theory and political theorists can do to combat injustice and illustrates it through a novel reconceptualization of responsibility for injustice.

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