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Podiatry career framework
No full textPodiatry is a first point of contact profession for foot and lower limb conditions. Basic training prepares podiatrists with core capabilities at level 6 in clinical practice, leadership and management, research and education; by graduation they are ready to develop any or all of these capabilities more broadly or more deeply with career portfolios that reflect their aspirations, talents and interests.Over a career span, podiatrists accumulate knowledge, skills and experience - by formal training pathways such as in podiatric surgery, or more ad hoc as training opportunities become available. The aims of the Podiatry CareerFramework (PCF) are twofold:1. To communicate the breadth and depth of podiatrists’ accumulated capabilities and experience to be easily readable to others.2. To aid personal career planning.Podiatrists are increasingly choosing hybrid roles and moving into new fields of work and yet this is often only evident on a retrospective CV. The PCF is prospective by design and aligns podiatry to relevant external frameworks to ensure the profession maps to existing clinical, education, research and management & leadership pathways. Podiatrists are first and foremost AHPs and share common areas of practice, governance, values and behaviours with other AHPs,nurses and doctors. There is, therefore, the potential for podiatrists, to be represented at every level of the health sector in clinical practice, research, development and innovation in leadership and management, and in education.Podiatrists frequently work in isolation, and the regional branches of the Royal College of Podiatry (RCPod) create the primary opportunities for developing networks of support with fellow clinicians to develop essential supervision relationships. Having the PCF in common will be an additional tool to help with reflection and gap analysis in supervision conversations leading to more focused career planning.A critical mass of podiatrists is required to achieve a robust future for the profession to ensure it continues to positively impact the health and mobility of people in the UK. Entry to the podiatry profession is represented in the PCF as one point along a continuum of education and training in foot health practice with the potential to build non-standard entry pathways into pre-registration podiatry/podiatric medicine degree programmes over time. With added flexibility intopre-registration degree programmes, the profession will have greater opportunity to grow and meet the ever-increasing healthcare needs of people with foot and lower limb conditions.In this first iteration, the PCF is a ‘2D’ tool but should be conceptualised as a 3D model with breadth and depth of experience, level of qualification and competence, and overall development in a career lifetime. With the capability of the profession mapped it will, in time, unveil the potential among podiatrists, in clinical practice, research, development and innovation, education, and leadership and management through portfolio careers, for maximum impact
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Statehood, Human Rights and Sea-Level Rise: A Response to the International Law Commission’s Second Issues Paper on Sea-Level Rise in relation to International Law
Get PDFThe Duty to Move People out of Harm’s Way in the Context of Climate Change and Disasters
No full textExperience shows that both sudden- and slow-onset disasters can result in displacement. Indeed, disasters now account for the largest number of newly displaced people each year - more than violence or conflict. At times, areas of land may be rendered too unsafe for continued human habitation, requiring evacuations or planned relocations of affected people. In fact, several countries are already in the process of moving, or considering moving, people out of at-risk areas, either as a preventive measure before disaster strikes, or as a reactive response in the aftermath of a disaster triggered by natural hazards. The present article examines whether human rights norms impose a duty on States to move people out of harm's way through (temporary) evacuations and/or (permanent) planned relocations, as measures to address and mitigate disaster risk and/or adapt to the negative consequences of climate change on human settlement, and, if so, what human rights law prescribes regarding the modalities of such measures
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