scholarly journals Attitudes of graduating Canadian urology residents on the job market: Is it getting better or are we just spinning our wheels?

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 104-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory W. Hosier ◽  
Naji J. Touma
Keyword(s):  
Urban Area ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Large Urban Area ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Agreement Score ◽  
Strongly Agree ◽  
Ideal Practice ◽  
The Ideal

Introduction: There has been increasing awareness of employment difficulties for physicians, especially surgeons, in Canada over the past few years. Our objective was to elucidate the attitudes and experiences of graduating Canadian urology residents in obtaining employment.Methods: We surveyed four separate cohorts of graduating urology residents in 2010, 2011, 2016, and 2017. Responses from the 2010 and 2011 cohorts were combined and compared to the combined results of the 2016 and 2017 cohorts. Mean Likert responses were compared using unpaired t-tests. An agreement score was created for those responding with “strongly agree” and “agree” on the Likert scale.Results: A total of 126 surveys were administered with a 100% response rate. The job market was rated as poor or very poor by 64.9% and 58.4% of graduates in 2010/2011 and 2016/2017, respectively (p=0.67). Lack of resources was identified as the biggest barrier to improved employment in both cohorts. Networking at meetings and staff urologists at their institution were the most important factors aiding employment identified by both cohorts. The ideal practice was academic or academically associated community practices in a large urban area, with 5‒10 partners for both cohorts.Conclusions: The majority of graduating urology residents viewed the job market as poor or very poor and this did not change over a six-year period. It is unclear how much personal preference for location and practice type drove the somewhat negative outlook of employment opportunities, as the majority of residents were seeking large urban, academic, or academically associated community practices in competitive locations.

The Selection of Higher Educated Graduates from the Field of Economy on the Job Market

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-61
Author(s):  
Loredana-Maria Păunescu ◽  
Constanţa Popescu ◽  
Ioana Panagoreţ ◽  
Adina Cezarina Tofan
Keyword(s):  
Career Planning ◽  
Academic Training ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Essential Step ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
The Ideal

In the present article the authors will direct their attention to the processes of selection of young, highly educated graduates in economics on the job market. It is known that career planning involves a proper strategy in order to obtain a certain job especially one that suits best with the academic training. It is of high importance the idea that self-knowledge, self-evaluation and understanding of the young academic graduates own limits and skills, interests, values, personal or occupational preferences will help them to articulate their own way in their search for a suitable profession. In light of all the existing realities in the labour market, information and verification of employment opportunities, young graduates, and not only them, will be able to anticipate the opportunities and avoid the negative situations that might affect them emotionally, thus losing their confidence in their own forces and in their ability to adapt and reinvent themselves if necessary. It is appropriate to evaluate and identify all the alternatives, to select the best solution and to act accordingly. Setting a career plan is another essential step in the success of a graduate. More than that, determining individual goals in order to find the ideal job and planning ways of obtaining the objective to be attained are also crucial.

The Tyranny of the Ideal

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Gaus
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Moral Life ◽  
Moral Inquiry ◽  
Open Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
Theories Of Justice ◽  
The World ◽  
Diverse Society ◽  
Just Society ◽  
The Ideal

This book lays out a vision for how we should theorize about justice in a diverse society. It shows how free and equal people, faced with intractable struggles and irreconcilable conflicts, might share a common moral life shaped by a just framework. The book argues that if we are to take diversity seriously and if moral inquiry is sincere about shaping the world, then the pursuit of idealized and perfect theories of justice—essentially, the entire production of theories of justice that has dominated political philosophy for the past forty years—needs to change. Drawing on recent work in social science and philosophy, the book points to an important paradox: only those in a heterogeneous society—with its various religious, moral, and political perspectives—have a reasonable hope of understanding what an ideally just society would be like. However, due to its very nature, this world could never be collectively devoted to any single ideal. The book defends the moral constitution of this pluralistic, open society, where the very clash and disagreement of ideals spurs all to better understand what their personal ideals of justice happen to be. Presenting an original framework for how we should think about morality, this book rigorously analyzes a theory of ideal justice more suitable for contemporary times.

Looking Backward 2000-1887

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Bellamy
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Democratic Society ◽  
The Political ◽  
Industrial Capitalism ◽  
Ideal Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
Utopian Fiction ◽  
Socialist Utopia ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
The Ideal

‘No person can be blamed for refusing to read another word of what promises to be a mere imposition upon his credulity.’ Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in fin-de-siècle Boston, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep in 1887 and wakes up in the year 2000. America has been turned into a rigorously centralized democratic society in which everything is controlled by a humane and efficient state. In little more than a hundred years the horrors of nineteenth-century capitalism have been all but forgotten. The squalid slums of Boston have been replaced by broad streets, and technological inventions have transformed people’s everyday lives. Exiled from the past, West excitedly settles into the ideal society of the future, while still fearing that he has dreamt up his experiences as a time traveller. Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward (1888) is a thunderous indictment of industrial capitalism and a resplendent vision of life in a socialist utopia. Matthew Beaumont’s lively edition explores the political and psychological peculiarities of this celebrated utopian fiction.

Fyodor Fyodorovich Martens (1845–1909) a humanist of modern times

1996 ◽  
Vol 36 (312) ◽  
pp. 300-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Pustogarov
Keyword(s):  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancient Record ◽  
Peace And War ◽  
The Ideal

In the history of humankind, no matter how far back we look into the past, peaceful relations between people and nations have always been the ideal, and yet this history abounds in wars and bloodshed. The documentary evidence, oral tradition and the mute testimony of archaeological sites tell an incontrovertible tale of man's cruelty and violence against his fellow man. Nevertheless, manifestations of compassion, mercy and mutual aid have a no less ancient record. Peace and war, goodneighbourly attitudes and aggression, brutality and humanity exist side by side in the contemporary world as well.

Enhanced Methodologies to Enumerate Persons Experiencing Homelessness in a Large Urban Area

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 480-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine L. Troisi ◽  
Ritalinda D’Andrea ◽  
Gary Grier ◽  
Stephen Williams
Keyword(s):  
Urban Area ◽  
Large Urban Area

Variability in Atmospheric Chlorofluorocarbons (CCl3F and CCl2F2) near a Large Urban Area:  Implications for Groundwater Dating

1998 ◽  
Vol 32 (16) ◽  
pp. 2377-2382 ◽  
Author(s):  
David T. Ho ◽  
Peter Schlosser ◽  
William M. Smethie ◽  
H. James Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Urban Area ◽  
Large Urban Area ◽  
Groundwater Dating

The Spatiotemporal Evolution of Urban Impervious Surface for Chengdu, China

2021 ◽  
Vol 87 (7) ◽  
pp. 491-502
Author(s):  
Mujie Li ◽  
Zezhong Zheng ◽  
Mingcang Zhu ◽  
Yue He ◽  
Jun Xia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Growth Rate ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
Landsat Imagery ◽  
Impervious Surface ◽  
Kappa Coefficient ◽  
Spatiotemporal Evolution ◽  
Urban Impervious Surface ◽  
The Past ◽  
Secondary Industry

The spatiotemporal evolution of an impervious surface (IS) is significant for urban planning. In this paper, the IS was extracted and its spatiotemporal evolution for the Chengdu urban area was analyzed based on Landsat imagery. Our experimental results indicated that convolutional neural networks achieved the better performance with an overall accuracy of 98.32%, Kappa coefficient of 0.98, and Macro F1 of 98.28%, and the farmland was replaced by IS from 2001 to 2017, and the IS area (ISA) increased by 51.24 km2; that is, the growth rate was up to 13.8% in sixteen years. According to the landscape metrics, the IS expanded and agglomerated into large patches from small fragmented ones. In addition, the gross domestic product change of the secondary industry was similar to the change of ISA between 2001 and 2017. Thus, the spatiotemporal evolution of IS was associated with the economic development of the Chengdu urban area in the past sixteen years.

Red Parents, Blue Parents: The Politics of Modern Parenthood

The Forum ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurel Elder ◽  
Steven Greene
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
American Family ◽  
The Past ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The Us ◽  
Political Impact ◽  
The Ideal

AbstractOver the past several decades the major parties in the US have not only politicized parenthood, but have come to offer increasingly polarized views of the ideal American family. This study builds on recent scholarship exploring the political impact of parenthood (e.g. Elder, Laurel, and Steven Greene. 2012a.

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