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Language specialists and Medicine domain experts: Collaboration to identify students requiring English language skill development
No full textThe Medical program at Bond University is unique in comparison to other programs, as it comprises two degrees, the Bachelor of Medical Studies and the Doctor of Medicine. Historically, students commencing the program may not have participated in communication skills enhancement initiatives available to undergraduate students enrolled in other programs, primarily due to the intensive and fast-track nature of the Medical program. One such initiative includes the University’s post-entry language assessment (PELA), known as Bond English Language Assessment or BELA. PELAs are ubiquitous in the Australian higher education context, as they provide university stakeholders with data on students who may require support in developing their English language and academic literacies skills (Read, 2015).Recognising that academic language and literacies outcomes of students participating within English-medium instruction, anglophone settings are not unproblematic (Humphreys, 2022), staff at the University’s Academic Skills Centre (i.e. post-entry English and academic language specialists) and academic staff on the Medical program worked collaboratively to develop an alternative PELA. The PELA, called BELA-AI, was created specifically for Medicine students in response to academic integrity concerns and an increase in the use of Generative AI (Gen AI). The task required students to first of all write an academic essay, then generate an essay using a Gen AI tool such as ChatGPT, and finally critically analyse the two essays in the form of a reflection. Academic staff on the Medical program rated the students’ essays and were provided rater training in person and online prior to the rollout of BELA-AI in the program. The collaboration between post-entry English and academic language specialists occurred over two years between 2023 and 2024 (four semesters) and resulted in the identification of Medical students requiring additional support with their academic essay writing skills. These students were subsequently incentivised to attend consultations with Academic Skills Centre staff for detailed feedback on their academic writing. This case study reports on the collaboration with the Medicine academics and provides insight into the outcomes of integrating a language assessment into the first-year program. It identifies challenges and opportunities for future collaboration and research.<br/
Characteristics of Surgical Coaching Interventions: A Systematic Review
Get PDFOBJECTIVE: Coaching is increasingly utilized as an educational intervention for performance improvement in surgeons and surgical trainees. Surgical coaching has been utilized across a broad range of specialties, experience levels and outcomes with generally positive results. Coaching interventions are often developed by individual institutions for their own context which has resulted in a heterogenous group of interventions. This review aims to investigate surgical coaching interventions to identify common characteristics that comprise an effective coaching intervention. METHODS: A systematic review was conducted to identify studies investigating surgical coaching interventions up to July 2024. Studies were limited to English language peer-reviewed studies that adequately described the characteristics and outcomes of the surgical coaching intervention. Data on the primary and secondary outcomes, study objective and participants’ demographics were also recorded. RESULTS: The search across 4 electronic databases generated 9538 citations. Following screening and review of full text articles 28 studies were included in the review. Surgical coaching interventions were carried out in 8 separate countries with the majority (22/28) in North America. Studies involved between 3 and 107 participants. Coaching interventions were markedly heterogenous, and specific details of the methods used were inconsistently documented. Study length ranged from 1 (9/28) to 14 (1/28) sessions and duration from less than 15 minutes (1/29) to greater than 3 hours (3/28). The most common themes were goal setting (10/28), feedback (7/28) and reflection (7/28). Outcomes were generally positive with 47 of 55 identified outcomes demonstrating benefit from surgical coaching. There were 3 key domains and 13 sub-domains that comprised the majority of coaching interventions. CONCLUSIONS: Surgical coaching has been shown to be a promising intervention that requires more rigorous research to develop the field. We have identified 3 key domains which can be utilized to analyses and develop coaching interventions in the future
Transition care patients' perceptions of using smartphones to support safe discharge home
No full textIntroduction: Older adults are known to have high falls risk. Home assessments are commonly used by occupational therapists to identify fall hazards and support safe discharge home. The increased ageing population and limited healthcare resources provide a rising opportunity for using technologies in home assessments. However, little information is known about older adults' willingness to use smartphone technology to identify fall hazards at their homes.Objectives: This study explored older adults' perceptions of using smartphone technology to identify falls hazards.Method: Participants were patients in the transition care program and potentially discharged to home. They were over 65 years old and in absence of cognitive impairment. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, and a thematic analysis was completed.Results: Hindered by the pandemic, three participants were recruited. Themes of the Technology Acceptance Model are used to reflect older adults' perceptions of using a smartphone to identify environmental falls hazards: (1) actual use, (2) intention to use, (3) perceived usefulness, and (4) perceived ease of use. The Canadian Model of Occupational Performance and Engagement reflects the factors affecting older adults' technology use: person: (1) Competence and knowledge; (2) confidence; (3) choice; and (4) privacy, flexibility, and autonomy; environment: (1) phone coverage and (2) social environment.Conclusion: Older adults perceived completing home assessments by sending photos as useful and manageable. However, education on relevant smartphone functions is required for older adults to succeed in sending photos for home assessments. Clinicians should consider different personal and environmental factors when recommending technology to older adults
My COVID ‘planetary health’ epiphany: restoration of our planet requires an Indigenous lens in health professions education and healthcare
No full textIntroduction: In their 2024 editorial, Yassaie and Garman called on health professionals to be planetary health leaders. Responding to their call for articles, this submission reflects my COVID-19 'planetary health' epiphany during the Australian lockdowns while curating sustainable healthcare and climate change education submissions. Collective COVID-19 learnings: As a global collective, we could have learnt much from the pandemic. Despite our broken relationship with Nature, during lockdown, most of us spent considerable time in Nature. This should have heightened our awareness of our interdependence with our natural environment. The United Nations has asked us to Make Peace with Nature and be the #GenerationRestoration in the 2021-2030 Decade of Restoration. A personal COVID-19 epiphany: My COVID-19 epiphany happened while curating sustainable healthcare education articles for a medical education journal. An article reflecting Indigenous perspectives introduced me to Natural and First Laws. My newfound awareness of Indigenous communities' deep spiritual connection to and stewardship of Country or Land changed the lens with which Planetary Health was integrated across our curriculum.Advancing planetary health: This 'epiphany' also led to advocacy for advancing planetary stewardship in health professions education, such as the development of a Consensus Statement on Planetary Health and Education for Sustainable Healthcare, and contributing to the revision of the Australian Medical Council's Accreditation Standards.Restoration of the planet: Individually and collectively, as health professionals and health professions educators and as #GenerationRestoration, current and yet unborn generations of all 'beings' are relying on us to be inclusive eco-ethical leaders and planetary stewards.</p
Beer Law
No full textBeer affects the law, and the law affects beer. The regulation of beer goes back thousands of years, and beer laws have shaped society in both obvious and unexpected ways. Beer Law provides a fun and accessible account of the complex interaction between law and beer. The book engages with a broad range of beer law topics including:Health,Intellectual property,Consumer protection and unfair competition,Contract,Competition,International trade,Environment,Tax.The book also provides a detailed description of beer, brewing, beer as a product, and the brewing industry, as well as an overview of some broad lessons from the regulation of beer. Given the importance of understanding law in context, the book also explores beer, beer culture and beer laws in more detail with a focus on Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, the Nordic countries, North America, and Britain and Ireland
Subcultural Power Among Australian Lifestyle Sports
No full textThis study aims to create a ranking of five lifestyle sports for their subcultural power. Subcultural power is a new theoretical construct defined as the relative value of a subculture’s aspirational appeal that affords it the ability to attract its share of mainstream societal interest (Sims & O’Brien, 2025). The five lifestyle sports are surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, mountain biking and trail running. Lifestyle sports have been given this name because participants engage the technical skill of the activity as well as integrate the sport’s fashion, values, customs, and argot (slang or jargon) into their daily lives. As such, it is a way of life that provides adherents “a particular and exclusive identity” (Wheaton, 2019, p. 389). Moreover, each lifestyle sport has a specialist industry supported by a core base of consumers who actively participate in the sport and rely on their core industry for technical and lifestyle products. These specialist industries are also supported by passive consumers, who do not actively participate in the sport but relate or aspire to the lifestyle. We argue it is the subcultural power of a lifestyle sport that attracts passive consumers who bring commercial scale to these sports. Indeed, many of these lifestyle sports have a consumer base that is significantly larger than their participation base due to their substantial passive consumer base. Our presentation contains the preliminary findings of an online survey (n = 720) which will be followed by a series of semi-structured interviews. This study is important because, it gives a name and a form of measure (ranking) to an important driver of consumer demand in lifestyle sports. <br/
Molecular landscape of sex- and modality-specific exercise adaptation in human skeletal muscle through large-scale multi-omics integration
Get PDFWe investigated the molecular mechanisms of exercise adaptations in human muscle by integrating genome, methylome, transcriptome, and proteome data from over 1,000 participants (2,340 muscle samples). We identified distinctive signatures associated with maximal oxygen consumption (VO 2max), and multi-omics integration uncovered five key genes as robust exercise markers across layers, with transcription factors functioning as activators, synergizing with DNA methylation to regulate gene expression. Minimal sex differences were observed, while modality-specific analysis highlighted distinct pathways for aerobic and resistance exercise, contrasting with muscle disuse patterns. Finally, we created a webtool, OMAx, featuring our individual omics and integration analysis. These findings provide a comprehensive multi-omics framework for understanding exercise-induced molecular adaptations, offering insights into muscle health, cardiorespiratory fitness, and their roles in aging and disease prevention
A call to examine the woven fabrics of our lived experiences and extend ourselves
Get PDFIn this transcending boundaries essay, I use a “life narrative” approach to explore the metaphor of our lives as woven tapestries. Here, I share a passionate call for organizational researchers to consider what our scholarship might look like if we vulnerably and intentionally extend our work to “see” and engage with others in environments different from our own. In doing so, I encourage a directional shift in many of our organizational research trajectories toward one in which we both acknowledge the ease and inertia of the relative peace and privilege so many of us hold and then look beyond. Look to those living within environments of conflict and crisis, periphery and isolation, to generatively embrace our roles as globally minded and interpersonally engaged homines curans (caring people) with the aim of adding threads to our unique tapestries—threads that feedand nurture rather than drain and extract
Cultural safety and First Nations health content within tertiary education for undergraduate healthcare students: A scoping review
Get PDFIntroduction:Many health professional university programs have integrated content on First Nations health into their curricula in response to the serious health inequities between First Nations and non-First Nations peoples.Methods:A scoping review was conducted, aiming to provide a deeper understanding of the various ways that tertiary education institutions are incorporating content on First Nations health and cultural safety into health professional education curricula, and how learning outcomes related to cultural capability are assessed.Online databases were used to identify papers published globally between 1995 and 2021, from which 28 were selected.Consumer and Community Involvement:First Nations co-authors, working alongside occupational therapy academics, have ensured that the meaning and context of the relevant studies have been thoroughly understood and that appropriate terminology has been used throughout the review.Findings:There is considerable variability in the way that content on First Nations health is delivered and assessed within the tertiary sector for health-care students, internationally. There are limited assessment tools that provide a comprehensive understanding of the ability to work in a culturally safe manner with First Nations peoples.Conclusion:The importance of having an understanding of First Nations peoples and health is recognised, with many institutions now, including this information into the university curricula as one method to positively impact the health outcomes of First Nations peoples, as well as in response to health professional accreditation and registration requirements.There remains variability with regard to how this content is delivered and assessed. Despite encouraging data on learning outcomes, it remains unclear whether this intervention has an impact on the health-care practices of graduates once they enter the workforce. Further research into the impact of this strategy is warranted in order to determine its effectiveness
The Role of Materialism and Social Judgment in Human-Chatbot Service Interactions
No full textPurpose: Chatbots are increasingly deployed in services and marketing applications, although they are often met with scepticism. To explore how such scepticism can be reduced, this study aims to examine how materialism and social judgment influence human–chatbot interactions. Design/methodology/approach: The authors conduct one pre-test, two laboratory experiments and one simulated study conducted in the field, to test the premises. Findings: The studies show that when material pursuit is guided by positive (negative) values, subjects prefer a chatbot that is perceived warm (competent) versus perceived competent (warm). This, in turn, leads to favourable purchase decisions for services with perceived homophily mediating this effect. Research limitations/implications: The work addresses the call for more research on how human–robot interactions can be improved applied to a services context. While the findings are novel, they are not without limitations which in turn lay a path for future research. Practical implications: The findings have implications for driving more strategic value out of how marketing and service managers can improve the interface design in human–chatbot interactions. Originality/value: The propositions demonstrate a novel framing in suggesting that positive (vs negative) values underpinning material pursuit can lead to a preference for perceived warm (vs competent) chatbots, which further guide favourable decision-making.</p