scholarly journals Trainee Report Summer 2016

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-92
Author(s):  
Sanjay Krishnamoorthy ◽  
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Nicholas Smallwood ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Internal Medicine ◽  
Important Work ◽  
High Quality

The latest SAM meeting was well attended with a number of high quality posters on display and a small but perfectly formed trainee session – thanks to those who attended. There were talks from the takeAIM fellows highlighting the important work they have been doing in improving recruitment into Acute Internal Medicine.

scholarly journals Are multiple-choice questions a good tool for the assessment of clinical competence in Internal Medicine?

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flavio Tangianu ◽  
Antonino Mazzone ◽  
Franco Berti ◽  
Giuliano Pinna ◽  
Irene Bortolotti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Internal Medicine ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Clinical Competence ◽  
Reliable Method ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Multiple Choice ◽  
Multiple Choice Questions ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Good Tool ◽  
Design Review

There are many feasible tools for the assessment of clinical practice, but there is a wide consensus on the fact that the simultaneous use of several different methods could be strategic for a comprehensive overall judgment of clinical competence. Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are a well-established reliable method of assessing knowledge. Constructing effective MCQ tests and items requires scrupulous care in the design, review and validation stages. Creating high-quality multiple-choice questions requires a very deep experience, knowledge and large amount of time. Hereby, after reviewing their construction, strengths and limitations, we debate their completeness for the assessment of professional competence.

A multi-strategy approach for the merging of multiple taxonomies

2020 ◽  
pp. 016555152095234
Author(s):  
Mao Chen ◽  
Chao Wu ◽  
Zongkai Yang ◽  
Sanya Liu ◽  
Zengzhao Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Multiple Source ◽  
Semantic Relations ◽  
Important Work ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Specific Domain ◽  
Multiple Inheritance ◽  
Hierarchical Relations ◽  
Block Based ◽  
Concept Pairs

Taxonomy merging is an important work to provide a uniform schema for several heterogeneous taxonomies. Previous studies primarily focus on merging two taxonomies in a specific domain, while the merging of multiple taxonomies has been neglected. This article proposes a taxonomy merging approach to automatically merge multiple source taxonomies into a target taxonomy in an asymmetric manner. The approach adopts a strategy of breaking up the whole into parts to decrease the complexity of merging multiple taxonomies and employs a block-based method to reduce the scale of measuring semantic relations between concept pairs. In addition, for the problem of multiple inheritance, a method of topical coverage is proposed. Experiments conducted on synthetic and real-world scenarios indicate that the proposed merging approach is feasible and effective to merge multiple taxonomies. In particular, the proposed approach works well in the aspects of limiting the semantic redundancy and establishing high-quality hierarchical relations between concepts.

scholarly journals Introducing the New Editorial Team at the Journal of Experimental Political Science

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Arceneaux ◽  
Rick Wilson ◽  
Cheryl Boudreau ◽  
Sarah Bush ◽  
Jennifer Jerit ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Experimental Research ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Important Work ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Editorial Assistant ◽  
Healthy State ◽  
Impossible Task

We are excited and honored to be the editorial team for JEPS. We are indebted to Eric Dickson for his efforts as the journal's previous editor. He set a high bar for JEPS as an outlet for high quality experimental research. Lucky for us, the healthy state of experimental research means that we will continue to have a deep pool of well-crafted and important work. We also thank Nick Haas, who deftly guided us through the transition as Editorial Assistant. Without his help, it would have been a near impossible task to get up to speed.

Architecture at the service of care: France-USA Memorial Hospital of Saint-Lô

2020 ◽  
pp. 60-67
Author(s):  
Donato Severo
Keyword(s):  
Memorial Hospital ◽  
Technical Equipment ◽  
Important Work ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Quality Work ◽  
High Quality Work ◽  
The Rich

The France-USA Memorial Hospital in Saint-Lô, Normandy (1948-1965), is known as one of the most relevant French Reconstruction projects. It is the first important work crafted by the French-American architect, Paul Nelson (1895-1979). His humanist approach inspired a series of unprecedented, meaningful and technical architectural innovations. The organization of the new hospital, based on functionality and modernity; polychromic and artistic inclusion; extended high-quality work, notably the "claustra" façade; ovoid surgical rooms and technical equipment are testimonies to the major quality and innovation pursued in the Memorial Hospital project. Paul Nelson’s work brings into focus the rich and comprehensive relationship between architecture, arts and care.

scholarly journals Trainee Update September 2014

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 131-131
Author(s):  
Nerys Conway
Keyword(s):  
Internal Medicine ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Acute Medicine ◽  
Medical Unit ◽  
Acute Medical Unit ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Southmead Hospital ◽  
New Jobs

I hope you have all settled well into your new jobs and a very warm welcome to those that have recently joined the ‘family’ of acute medicine. I would first of all like to thank Ruth Johnson for all her hard work as trainee representative over the last 18 months and wish her all the best as she ventures into consultant territory: her replacement will be announced later in the autumn. July was a busy month, dominated by our Acute Medicine Awareness Week, during which AMUs across the UK undertook events to raise the profile of the speciality and the important work they were doing locally. Barnsley completed a 25 mile virtual marathon, Crosshouse Hospital made £350 in a cake sale, Salford Royal staff walked around every acute medical unit in Greater Manchester, North Staffordshire staff ran a half marathon and there was more cake on sale in Kings College and Leicester Royal. The AMU staff at Southampton raised over £400 with their cake sale and cycle challenge, during which they were joined by the Trust Chief Executive for a ‘virtual’ 120 miles on an exercise bike situated outside the hospital entrance. The highlight, however was the contribution of Dr Nigel Lane, an acute medicine trainee from Southmead Hospital in North Bristol, who put together an outstanding weekly programme of events. This included a visit from the Chief Executive of the trust, visit from local GPs to the unit, daily MDT teaching, daily ‘messages of the day’ located on the trust website and lots of screensavers, banners and information scattered throughout the hospital. I am delighted to announce that Nigel has received the SAM awareness week prize. This involves the opportunity to join the European School of Internal Medicine and attend the winter EFIM school camp in Latvia. Nigel will also be joining us as one of the speakers in the trainee session at SAM Brighton. He will be speaking on “Preparing for your PYA”. There will also be talks in the trainee session on “Keeping your e-portfolio updated”, “Choosing your specialist skill” and “Preparing for your consultant job”. The session will be aimed at both junior and senior trainees. The trainee that has produced the best poster at Brighton will also have a chance to win a place to attend the summer EFIM school camp. The day before the conference starts there will be a SCE revision session. I attended last year and found it extremely helpful! Looking forward to seeing you all in Brighton. In the meantime if you have any problems or suggestions please tweet or email me at the addresses below.

Discussion on High-Quality Curriculum Construction of Welded Structure in Local Comprehensive Universities

2013 ◽  
Vol 785-786 ◽  
pp. 1502-1505
Author(s):  
Yi Hua Sun ◽  
Min You ◽  
Hai Zhou Yu ◽  
Cai Hua Huang
Keyword(s):  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Important Work ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Control Engineering ◽  
Comprehensive Universities ◽  
Teaching Resource ◽  
Welded Structure ◽  
Curriculum Construction ◽  
And Control

The curriculum construction is a very important work leading to the excellent course. Welded Structure (including 40 class hours) is one of main and compulsory course for the major of Material Molding and Control Engineering in our university. It is very important and necessary to construct the course in time. Based on the project of High Quality Curriculum Construction for Welded Structure undertaken by the authors, this paper makes a discussion on the original ideas, goals and contents, strategies and measures of the project. Meanwhile, the course construction and reform of Welded Structure are introduced from following aspects, such as curriculum setting, teaching contents and methods, teaching staffs, teaching quality management and supervision, online teaching resource construction. The purpose of the paper is to provide beneficial references and experiences to facilitate the further curriculum construction and reform in higher school.

scholarly journals Moving fast but going slow: coordination challenges for trials of COVID-19 post-exposure prophylaxis

Trials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Darrell H. S. Tan ◽  
Rupesh Agrawal ◽  
Ruanne V. Barnabas ◽  
Jon T. Giles ◽  
Peter Dull
Keyword(s):  
Observational Studies ◽  
Randomized Trials ◽  
Post Exposure Prophylaxis ◽  
Important Work ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Innovative Strategies ◽  
Post Exposure ◽  
Prevention And Treatment ◽  
Exposure Prophylaxis ◽  
Unmeasured Confounders

Abstract An unprecedented volume of research has been generated in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there are risks of inefficient duplication and of important work being impeded if efforts are not synchronized. Excessive reliance on observational studies, which can be more rapidly conducted but are inevitably subject to measured and unmeasured confounders, can foil efforts to conduct rigorous randomized trials. These challenges are illustrated by recent global efforts to conduct clinical trials of post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) as a strategy for preventing COVID-19. Innovative strategies are needed to help overcome these issues, including increasing communication between the Data Safety and Monitoring Committees (DSMCs) of similar trials. It is important to reinforce the primacy of high-quality trials in generating unbiased answers to pressing prevention and treatment questions about COVID-19.

Flash Sliver Prevents Laser Penetrating Organic Materials

2012 ◽  
Vol 263-266 ◽  
pp. 48-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fu Ping Wang ◽  
Wei Fan ◽  
Sen Su ◽  
Sheng Xiong Liu ◽  
Zhi Yong Yin
Keyword(s):  
Organic Material ◽  
3D Model ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Laser Scanner ◽  
Sodium Stearate ◽  
Point Clouds ◽  
High Accuracy ◽  
Surface Point ◽  
Important Work ◽  
High Quality

High-quality point clouds are the bases of high-accuracy three-dimensional (3D) model. How to obtain the corresponding surface point clouds is always an important work in reverse engineering. Faro Laser Scanner Fonton120 was used to scan an organic material which is composed of potassium stearate, sodium stearate, polyvinyl alcohol and paraffin liquid in a dark room. The organic material has fewer reflectors and is penetrated by laser of scanner. For increasing the reflector and obtaining high-accuracy 3D model, the flash sliver was coated on organic material’s surface. Flash sliver was found not only increasing the high reflector but also preventing laser penetrating. It indicated that coating flash sliver was an efficient method to obtain high-quality point clouds. These findings have supplied a basis for 3D laser scanner appling to the field of organic material.

Abstract 233: Quality of Collaboration Between Cardiologists and Internists During Inpatient Consultations

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (Suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan L Gavin ◽  
Elizabeth Walters ◽  
Kevin J O'Leary
Keyword(s):  
Internal Medicine ◽  
General Internal Medicine ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
High Quality ◽  
General Internal ◽  
Resident Physicians ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Internal Medicine Faculty ◽  
Very High

Background: Collaboration between cardiologists and internists is essential to providing safe, effective, and patient-centered cardiovascular care. The objective of this study was to determine the quality of collaboration between these clinicians during inpatient consultations and identify areas for improvement. Methods: We surveyed hospitalists, general internal medicine faculty, and resident physicians from inpatient general medicine services and consulting cardiology attendings and fellows at a large tertiary care hospital over a two month period. Respondents were asked to rate each other’s level of collaboration on a 5-point ordinal response scale and answer multiple choice and free-response questions on consultation practices and personal preferences. Results: Overall, 92 of 155 (59%) eligible hospitalists, general internal medicine faculty, and resident physicians completed the primary survey. Collaboration with cardiology consultants was rated as high or very high quality by 72% of respondents. There was no significant difference between ratings of collaboration quality based on respondents’ level of training. Internists identified resistance or disagreement with indication for consultation, difficulty receiving a timely response, and poor follow-up communication as the largest barriers to high quality collaboration. Most internists preferred receiving recommendations by page, phone, or written in a consult note, rather than in person. Internists appreciated close communication throughout the consultation process. For longitudinal consultations, internists preferred when an intention to sign-off was communicated by page or wrote in that day’s consult note. In total, 9 cardiology attendings and fellows completed the specialty survey. Cardiologists reported providing recommendations the same day for routine consultations, or within 2-3 hours when urgent. Most consultants communicated their recommendations thru page, phone conversations, or written consult note. Providing recommendations in person was rare. Half of cardiology attendings and fellows rated collaboration with internists as high or very high quality. There was no significant difference between their ratings of collaboration with hospitalists and residents. Cardiologists appreciated when outside hospital records had already been obtained. They identified receiving an unclear reason for consult, consulting prior to initial work-up, late in the day, or when an outpatient appointment was more appropriate as the largest barriers to high quality collaboration. Conclusions: While cardiologists and internists appear to agree on modes of communication, they have different perceptions of timeliness and disagreements on appropriateness of consultations. Further research is needed to design and study interventions that address these barriers to high quality collaboration.

scholarly journals ‘Take AIM’ – Raising awareness of Acute Internal Medicine

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 137-137
Author(s):  
Adrian Kennedy ◽  
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Charlotte Masterton-Smith ◽  
Joe Wheeler ◽  
Lynsey Threlfall ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Internal Medicine ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Medical Specialty ◽  
Medical Patients ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Relative Lack ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Speciality Training ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Acute Medical Care

Acute Internal Medicine (AIM) may be the ‘new kid on the block’ as a medical specialty but it lies at the heart of our health service. Recognition of the importance of early senior review in managing medical patients admitted to hospital in an emergency has led to a dramatic expansion in the number of consultant posts being created in acute medical units across the UK. This has been matched by a similar rise in the number of higher speciality training positions, with over 100 posts being advertised every year. Although the majority of these posts have been filled, this expansion, combined with a relative lack of awareness of the speciality, has meant that vacancies remain in many Deaneries. This needs to be addressed in order for the speciality to continue to expand, and deliver high quality, consultant-led acute medical care in every hospital in the UK.

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