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Towards improving the quality of internships in medicine and allied health professions
Get PDFIntroduction: One of the important elements influencing the well-being of society is a highly educated, professional staff of the entire therapeutic team. Physiotherapists play a significant role in this team, which is why the higher education system is expected to make efforts to develop optimal education programs, including the development of practical skills. The purpose of this article is to present the Healint4All project, whose mission is to facilitate international internships for students of physiotherapy and other medical professions, which will allow high-class professionals in the healthcare sector to enter the job market.
Material and methods: A step-by-step process of creating a protocol for auditing places of clinical practice was prepared. Virtual, interactive teaching resources were developed to prepare auditors. A literature analysis, focus interviews in groups of academic teachers, practitioners, and students. A pilot study of the protocol in live environments was conducted.
Results: Both potential auditees (medical institutions) and auditors (universities) positively assessed the newly created tool. The recommendations included paying attention to transparency, simplicity, and linguistic correctness in all language versions of the protocol. It was suggested that the protocol, containing everything useful, should not be too long and would not burden the user with time.
Conclusions: In the opinion of students and experts who evaluated the Healint4All protocol, it will contribute to increasing the supply and quality of international placements offered by healthcare organizations throughout Europe, as well as simplifying the processes involved in organizing these for students, educational institutions, and healthcare organizations
The Art of Engagement
No full textThe presentation will be on the research project 'The Art of Engagement: foundations for an international learning community in social practice', which took place in 2022. It investigated how the teaching of social practice could be improved for arts practitioners through partnership between cultural and higher education institutions. The project made use of online communications to test practical
possibilities for augmenting learning through collaboration across national
boundaries and also explored other benefits that networking across institutional and
geographical divides could bring. Out of this work an ongoing network of practitioners, cultural providers and educators was initiated to lay foundations for cooperation and exchange while opening up possibilities for greater
future collaboration
The learning experience on an undergraduate blended learning healthcare management programme: an examination of knowledge and skills transfer to practice
Get PDFBackground: Knowledge and skill transfer from higher education settings to the workplace is essential in supporting employment-ready graduates and the knowledge economy. The yearning for employability has significantly intensified post-COVID-19 as the UK government and universities examine further partnerships with employers to plug the skills gaps in the healthcare sector.
Aim: This study evaluated the knowledge and skills 'transfer direction' of a non-practicum-linked undergraduate blended learning programme to the healthcare management workplace.
Methodology/Methods: The qualitative study used a UK higher education institution (HEI) as a case study. Between December 2021 and June 2022, 28 purposively selected participants were recruited in the study. Focus group discussions (FGDs) and semi-structured interviews were conducted with the programme's students and graduates, employers, and academics.
Findings: Results revealed that the programme takes advantage of strengths such as curriculum design, communities of practice, and integrated and scaffolded content and resources in modules to emphasise and promote knowledge contextualisation and skill development for application to practice. The transfer outcome of knowledge and skills from the blended learning classroom suggested either a "positive transfer" or "neutral and transfer difficult to determine". Five of the 28 participants identified the need for practicums and a mechanism to follow-up and monitor graduate and student practice as a significant impediment to comprehensively determining whether knowledge and skills transfer from the programme is explicit, transparent, or even observable.
Conclusion: The paucity of studies on knowledge and skills transfer from blended learning healthcare management programmes to practice uniquely positioned this study to advance our understanding of knowledge and skill transfer from the classroom to the healthcare industry. Similar undergraduate curricula would benefit from formally incorporating practicums to enhance theory-to-practice application, student achievement and employability
Global women architects we should all know
No full textThe authors of 100 Women: Architects in Practice pick out three of the book’s world-leading female architects that exemplify this neglected section of the professio
Adaptation of enterprise modeling methods for large language models
No full textLarge language models (LLM) are considered by many researchers as promising technology for automating routine tasks. Results from applying LLM in engineering disciplines such as Enterprise Modeling also indicate potential for the support of modeling activities. LLMs are fine-tuned for specific tasks using chat based interaction through the use of prompts. This paper aims at a detailed investigation of the potential of LLMs in Enterprise Modeling (EM) by taking the perspective of EM methods adaptation of selected parts of the modeling process within the context of using prompts to interrogate the LLM. The research question addressed is: What adaptations in EM methods have to be made to exploit the potential of prompt based interaction with LLMs? The main contributions are (1) a meta-model for prompt engineering that integrates the concepts of the modeling domain under consideration with the notation of the Modeling language applied and the input and output of prompts, (2) an investigation into the general potential of LLM in EM methods and its application in the 4EM method, and (3) implication for enterprise Modeling methods
Insider trading, executive pay disparity and CEO turnover
No full textThis paper examines the relationship between insider abnormal trading returns, executive pay disparity, and CEO turnover. Our study finds both independent and interaction effects of insider abnormal returns and CEO pay gap on the probability of CEO turnovers. First, an increase in insider purchase abnormal returns reduces the likelihood of CEO turnover, while an increase in insider sales abnormal returns signals a greater likelihood of CEO dismissal. Second, there is a negative impact of CEO pay gap on the probability of CEO turnover in insider purchases but not a positive impact of CEO pay gap on the probability of CEO turnover in insider sales. Third, the interaction between insider abnormal returns and CEO pay disparity mitigates the impact of insider returns and amplifies the impact of CEO pay gap on the probability of CEO dismissal. In particular, it reduces the positive effect of insider selling returns, offsets the negative effect of insider purchase returns, and magnifies the negative impact of CEO pay disparity on the likelihood of CEO dismissal in insider purchases
MesoGraph: automatic profiling of malignant mesothelioma subtypes from histological images
No full textMalignant mesothelioma is classified into three histological subtypes, Epithelioid, Sarcomatoid, and Biphasic according to the relative proportions of epithelioid and sarcomatoid tumor cells present. Biphasic tumors display significant populations of both cell types. This subtyping is subjective and limited by current diagnostic guidelines and can differ even between expert thoracic pathologists when characterising the continuum of relative proportions of epithelioid and sarcomatoid components using a three class system. In this work, we develop a novel dual-task Graph Neural Network (GNN) architecture with ranking loss to learn a model capable of scoring regions of tissue down to cellular resolution. This allows quantitative profiling of a tumor sample according to the aggregate sarcomatoid association score of all the cells in the sample. The proposed approach uses only core-level labels and frames the prediction task as a dual multiple instance learning (MIL) problem. Tissue is represented by a cell graph with both cell-level morphological and regional features. We use an external multi-centric test set from Mesobank, on which we demonstrate the predictive performance of our model. We validate our model predictions through an analysis of the typical morphological features of cells according to their predicted score, finding that some of the morphological differences identified by our model match known differences used by pathologists. We further show that the model score is predictive of patient survival with a hazard ratio of 2.30. The code for the proposed approach, along with the dataset, is available at: https://github.com/measty/MesoGraph
Managing managerial coaching: the role of stakeholders
No full textPurpose
The purpose of this paper is to discuss several obstacles that can reduce the effectiveness of managerial coaching. Furthermore, the paper highlights the role played by various stakeholders [i.e. the organization, senior leaders, the human resources (HR) function and managers] in overcoming or reducing the potency of such obstacles.
Design/methodology/approach
The views presented here have been derived from the authors’ professional experience in managerial coaching and a review of the literature on managerial coaching.
Findings
The authors discuss six common obstacles to effective managerial coaching: time for coaching, willingness to coach, ability to coach, employees’ ability and willingness, societal expectations and the intrusion of technology. They describe the critical role of various stakeholders (i.e. the organization, senior leaders, the HR function and line managers) in overcoming or mitigating the impact of such obstacles, thus contributing to effective managerial coaching.
Originality/value
A discussion of the obstacles to effective managerial coaching and the role of stakeholders in managerial coaching is valuable for organizations that seek to enhance the performance of employees through managerial coaching
Giving evidence before the first-tier Tribunal (Mental Health): what is the role of inpatient mental health nurses?
Get PDFThe Mental Health Tribunal is legal body with an important function to review the rights of detained patients in hospital and whether continued detention under the Mental Health Act (1983), remains the least restive option in the best interest of the patient. To undertake this work, the Tribunal examines evidence presented in clinical reports and oral evidence by mental health staff including psychiatrists, community mental health nurses and/or social workers, and inpatient mental health nurses. This article discusses best practice regarding application of the Mental Health Act-Code of Practice (CoP), concerning preparation required by inpatient mental health nurses attending the Mental Health Tribunal as expert witnesses to give evidence
The untimely art of scribble
No full textScribble is explored as a refractive process from its parietal beginnings in cave paintings to graffiti; resisting seeing it as developmental in children and animal scribbles, as spiritual in syncretic scribble, as an Avant-Garde art, as music and movement, and as digital experiment on screen and by machines