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Differential appreciation of the benefits of interprofessional learning (IPL) between participating stakeholders
No full textBackground
Interprofessional collaboration in healthcare professionals promotes patient-centred care. Interprofessional learning (IPL) in undergraduate healthcare curricula aims to improve effective collaboration between students from different professions to promote patient-centred medicine. The challenge of how we prepare students for interprofessional collaborative practice raises the question of what educators and students perceive in the value of IPL as a promoter of patient-centred collaborative learning.
Methods
A workshop on safe prescribing was co-created within an interprofessional group of colleagues from the MPharm and MBChB Programmes, involving fourth-year students. Following the workshop, students and educators completed a survey comparing their perspectives on IPL’s value in engaging students in experiential collaborative learning.
Results
Of 81 MPharm and 59 MBChB students, 33 (40.7%) and 32 (54.2%) completed the survey respectively. Students and educators acknowledged the value of IPL workshop in increasing awareness of other professional roles, skills development, and importance of teamwork in patient care. Educators perceived the session as having the goal of improving patient care. MBChB students viewed the activity as an opportunity to learn skills and MPharm students as improving their professional development. However, there was a lack of correlation between students perceived benefits of the IPL session to themselves and patient care.
Conclusion
MBChB students perceived IPL as exchanging competencies, not enhancing interprofessional practice, even though they thought IPL benefited healthcare professionals and interprofessional caring benefited patients. MPharm students, on the contrary, viewed IPL as promoting interprofessional practice and recognised the importance of multidisciplinary teams to improve patients’ care. The lack of student awareness that IPL sessions are the first steps towards interprofessional collaboration and enhanced patient-centred care could be a barrier to embracing collaboration as professionals after graduation. Educators should emphasise this point to students as part of the learning outcomes of IPL
Bridging the skills gap in chemical sciences to train the next generation workforce
No full textChemistry is an inherently vocational discipline that sits at the interface of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) subjects (and those aligned with or informed by STEMM subjects). This article probes the perceptions of leadership in industry and higher education institutions (HEIs) in the UK and Ireland of the skills necessary for the next generation workforce, drawing conclusions regarding curriculum design and beyond
Curating the Return: What happens after restitution - a case study from Thailand
No full textThis paper examines the curatorial strategies employed in the wake of the restitution of two lintels from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (AAMSF) to Thailand in 2021. Much of the debate and analysis on restitution focuses on the process itself. However, far less attention has been given to analysing what happens after objects are returned. For example, where are returned objects being displayed? What types of curatorial narratives are being told? Whose voices are being represented and whose voices are absent? This paper provides one such case study and explores the possibilities and potential that restitution may offer. It first analyses the lintels’ initial display at the Bangkok National Museum and then moves on to look at the subsequent exhibitions in museums in proximity to the respective temples from which they originally came
Mediating the Sublime: Immersive Encounters with Goya and Munch
No full textContributing to ongoing debates surrounding immersive experiences in museums, this essay proposes the aesthetic category of the sublime as a productive framework for immersive mediation and exhibition-making. How can immersive mediation be conceived to reconcile the experiential qualities of immersion with the often challenging demands of meaning-making and ethical reflection?
The potential of the sublime to address this challenge is explored through the example of the art exhibition Goya and Munch: Modern Prophecies (MUNCH, 2023-24). Drawing on a wide range of materials, I examine specific aspects of the sublime relevant to the development of the exhibition’s mediation. These include the sublime’s excessiveness, unpresentability, ethical dimension, and close ties to the ridiculous
A4 6 Frozen’s Ice Generation
No full textFrom the movie Frozen, we investigate if the radial icicle growth is due to environmental conditions or Elsa’s powers. We calculated the heat transfer coefficient required for the rate of radial growth to be ≈ 9.76 × 106 Wm−2K−1. The coefficient based on the environmental conditions is in the range of ≈ 1.11 to 7.5×10−2 Wm−2K−1. Due to a difference of six to eight orders in magnitude, we can conclude that the growth rate is not solely due to the environment
P5 3 "Until the Sky Turns Green"
No full textIn the popular Stone Roses song, Sugar Spun Sweetheart, there is a lyric “Until the sky turnsgreen, and the grass is several shades of blue”. In this paper we will be examining whetherit would be possible to witness a green sky, firstly, by discussing whether particles exhibitingRayleigh scattering can cause a green sky instead of blue, and secondly, what speeds a personwould need to travel to redshift the sky’s natural blue colour to green. We find that there areno conditions under which Rayleigh scattering can produce a green sky, however if an observeraccelerates to an approximate speed of 0.2c, then they will observe a green sky, due to the Dopplereffect
P1 9 Holding Space for Defying Gravity
No full textThis paper explores the physical possibility of Elphaba Thropp’s flight during the song DefyingGravity in the musical Wicked. By applying fundamental physics principles, we conclude thatmagnetic levitation offers the most realistic explanation within the limits of known physics
P3 7 Water Breathing as Laminar Flow Control in Demon Slayer
No full textIn the anime Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, “Water Breathing” is a fictional swordsmanship style characterised by fluid, almost effortless high–speed katana strikes, as though the blade moves through water rather than air. We model this aesthetic as a hypothetical active flow–control mechanism that enforces laminar boundary–layer flow over the blade at Re ≈ 106 . Using Blasius theory and drag coefficients, we calculate a 94 % reduction in aerodynamic torque and a 45 % reduction in muscular effort, making the blade feel approximately one-half lighter, whilst preserving strike impulse. In reality, turbulent transition occurs in ∼10 µs under adverse pressure gradients; sustaining laminarity at such Reynolds numbers is impossible without advanced actuators. This model quantifies the biomechanical basis for the “effortless flow” aesthetic in Demon Slayer
A1 9 Unrelenting Force
No full textIn this paper, we investigate a fictional shout from the video game, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim,focusing on the exit pressure to propel a modelled target 20 metres under projectile motion withno drag, and how a model considering drag would differ in shape and distance travelled. We foundthe exit pressure to be a value of ≈ 45 kPa and under drag the target would travel 18.22 metres
Cultural Conversations: Using Liming as a Tool to Engage Men and Boys in Conversations on Gender-Based Violence in the Caribbean
No full textImagine a group of people gathered under the Caribbean sun, laughing, drinking, sharing stories and engaging in lively conversation and debates. This scene, a quintessential ‘lime’, is more than a relaxing pastime, it is a deeply rooted cultural practice of bonding and dialogue. Liming, as both a practice and a concept, holds significant potential for encouraging meaningful conversations on critical social issues (Fernández Santana et al, 2019). However, as Kerrigan (2016) demonstrates through his work on grassroots football in Trinidad, liming spaces are complex sites where both solidarity and exclusion coexist. In this article, I argue that understanding this duality is crucial to effectively using liming as a platform to promote positive change in attitudes toward violence against women and girls, an issue pervasive throughout the Caribbean and beyond