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Arrhythmias
No full textCardiac arrhythmias are among the most complex cases facing any clinician. While the field appears well defined and structured, the range of possible arrhythmias, how they are identified and how they should be managed are open to infinite variations that challenge even experienced cardiologists. Arrhythmias that share the same name can present with vastly different ECGs and produce clinical presentations that range from asymptomatic to near cardiac arrest. Variations in cardiac structure, disease progression, medications and past history can all cloud the decision-making process in a field that requires expertise and experience simply to identify the classic presentations..
Does a paramedic student's innate reasoning ability predict their academic performance in the biological sciences?
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In recent years paramedic education has transitioned from a vocational model into the tertiary education sector. The University of Queensland (UQ) offers a 3 year Bachelor of Paramedic Science program that employs a Case Based Learning (CBL) teaching model. The curriculum is designed to develop reasoning skills by linking the core biological sciences to clinical practice.\ud
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A longitudinal study design is being utilised to explore whether innate reasoning ability predicts a student’s academic performance and progression within the UQ Bachelor of Paramedic Science program. \ud
A validated instrument was administered to year one paramedic science students on the first day of semester 1, 2014. This instrument measures a student’s capacity to reason across the domains of quantitative and formal, verbal and plausible, and critical reasoning. Demographic information was also collected to isolate the effect of admissions variables.\ud
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This research will explore whether innate reasoning ability predicts academic performance in an undergraduate CBL paramedic program. A qualitative approach is being used to analyse the baseline data against student achievement in year one science and clinical course
A reflective practice model for paramedic students to self-direct their learning during ambulance clinical placements
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No standardised model exists for paramedic students’ on-road clinical placements. The variation between paramedicine courses in Australia means students on placements have different levels of knowledge and clinical skills, and therefore different learning requirements. A new reflective practice model for on-road clinical placements was implemented into The University of Queensland’s Paramedicine program, requiring students to set their own learning objectives. This study investigated the ability of students to self-assess their learning using this approach.\ud
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Students were required to develop an individual learning plan for their clinical placement, based on their identified knowledge gaps, capabilities assessment, learning needs and course requirements. The final placement portfolio, after their placement, included a self-assessment of how well they met their learning objectives. The self-assessment data were used to explore the ability of students to develop appropriate and achievable learning objectives, through analysis of the discourse they used and range of learning objectives set.\ud
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This model provides paramedicine students with a more structured learning experience during on-road clinical placements, allowing them to address gaps in their knowledge; however students need to learn more about what makes a good learning objective, as many were broad with no measurable outcome.\ud
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Students need support and guidance when setting their own learning plans. Requiring students to take control over their learning during on-road clinical placements can improve learning outcomes, however students need support and guidance when setting their own learning objectives
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
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
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