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How do medical school applicants respond to the requirement for 'work experience'? An exploration of 'going abroad'
No full textBackground and PurposeArranging work experience prior to medical school can for many potential applicants prove extremely difficult,with access to clinical settings often considered the ideal type. Potential applicants struggle to interpret theofficial guidance from medical schools1, making the application process intensely unsettling. Anecdotalevidence suggests that some UK-based candidates have been responding to these perceived requirementsby paying to undertake commercially-mediated international work experience (i-WEX)2,3.A recent Medical Schools Council announcement highlights that overseas work experience prior to studyingmedicine is problematic.4 However, there is no literature that would tell us anything about why it is beingundertaken, by whom or about the potential consequences for participants and hosts. This project addressesthis gap and offers insights into applicants’ mind-sets and the commercial environment that appears to providea potential solution to their dilemma. It draws on parallels with existing debates around the benefits anddrawbacks of volunteer tourism pertaining to medical electives and gap year volunteer projects.MethodologyThis is an exploratory interview-based study with UK undergraduate medical students (n=15). Followingcompletion of the individual interviews, each one will be transcribed, before a thematic analysis is performed.ResultsTo date some seven interviews have been conducted already and we expect the final analysis and writing upto conclude in May 2015.Discussion and ConclusionsPreliminary analysis suggests that the seemingly conflicting guidance regarding work experiencerequirements has left applicants susceptible to panic when observing the apparent opportunities enjoyed bypeers encountered at school and on online forums. As previously suggested in the literature, networks (intothe healthcare professions) are invaluable for organising work experience, though many applicants do nothave such contacts. Apparently, this leads some applicants to undertake i-WEX, which promises exotic andexciting experiences to elaborate on in personal statements and interviews.1- Timm A. The Hopes and Fears of new medical students: An exploration of students’ perspectives of applying to medical school. MedicalEducation Development Unit, University of Southampton; 2013: 7.2- Gap Medics. About Us. http://www.gapmedics.co.uk/about (accessed 2nd January 2015).3- Projects Abroad UK. About Projects Abroad: Projects Abroad Today. http://www.projects-abroad.co.uk/about-us/ (accessed 2nd January2015).4- Medical Schools Council. Selecting for Excellence - Work experience guidelines for applicants to medicine. December 2014
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Disclosure of documents and limitation of actions
No full textThis article considers the decisions in Stephan v NRMA Insurance Limited [2001]QDC 002 and Bertha v Dragut [2001] QDC 00
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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