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Navigating Credibility of Online Information during COVID-19: Using mnemonics to equip the public to spot red flags in health information online (preprint)
Get PDFMisinformation creates challenges for the general public to determine truth from fiction in online content. During covid-19 this issue was amplified due to high volumes of news and changing information. Evidence on misinformation largely focuses on understanding the psychology of misinformation and debunking strategies, but neglects to explore critical thinking education for the general public. This viewpoint outlines the science of misinformation and the current resources available to the public. This paper describes the development and theoretical underpinnings of a mnemonic (“CRABS”) for identifying misinformation in online health content. Leveraging evidence-based educational strategies may be a promising tool for empowering the public with confidence to determine truth from fiction in an infodemic*****************************************************************Warning: This is an author submission that is not peer-reviewed or edited. Preprints - unless they show as "accepted" - should not be relied on to guide clinical practice or health-related behavior and should not be reported in news media as established information.*****************************************************************Copyright © The authors. All rights reserved. This is a privileged document currently under peer-review/community review (or an accepted/rejected manuscript). Authors have provided JMIR Publications with an exclusive license to publish this preprint on it's website for review and ahead-of-print citation purposes only. While the final peer-reviewed paper may be licensed under a cc-by license on publication, at this stage authors and publisher expressively prohibit redistribution of this draft paper other than for review purposes
Art in a modern era of health professions education: where have we been and where should we go with moulage?
No full textIntroMoulage is an art that dates back to the 17th century. A French word to describe the use of moulds to create wax replicas of illness and injury, it was an often-clandestine activity to preserve anatomical replicas to share learnings amongst physicians. Now stored in musea around the world, the word moulage now encompasses the use of special effects makeup techniques and prosthetics to replicate illness and trauma in health professions education. Despite its long history and its widespread use in simulation, there has been very little research to inform the theoretical and practical application of moulage. The literature on moulage heavily focuses on dermatology and trauma simulations, with a small focus on wound management or other ongoing cares. In this Personally Arranged Learning Session (PeArLS), we will explore the underpinning theories of moulage in health professions education and the future of moulage in health professions education. We will cover the following key questions: - Where is moulage utilised across the health professions education spectrum?- What are the barriers to the use of moulage in health professions education?- What are the enablers for the use of moulage in health professions education?- What are the key areas for growth in moulage research and scholarship?<br/
The Social Dilemma: Leveraging Social Media Strategically
No full textAbstract number 244*********************************************************************************Social media is considered essential for dissemination of research in today’s academic climate. Research has highlighted the impact of using social media to amplify work, but not without strategy. In this workshop I will introduce the 3 domains of social media use (Consumption, Curation and Creation). From here, we will explore approaches to achieving your goals for social media practice. We will cover different platforms, formats and online safety. This introductory workshop will leave you with awareness of how you can integrate social media in your academic practice. What to bring: You should bring your laptop and a broad aim for what you want to achieve for your profile (e.g. achieve significant reach with your research). Reflective resources will be provide
Moulage in trauma education: a comparison study in undergraduate medical students
No full textIntroThe use of moulage in medical education dates to 17th century Europe. The word moulage means “to mould”, describing the technical process of making a negative mould of a body part and then filling it with wax. The antique moulage now stored in musea around the world, today the word moulage encompasses the use of special effects makeup techniques and prosthetics to replicate illness and trauma. Despite its long history, there has been very little research to inform the theoretical and practical application of moulage. This abstract describes the methods utilised to explore how the authenticity of moulage influences medical student engagement in trauma simulations. MethodsA randomised mixed-methods study was deployed to explore undergraduate medical students’ perceptions of engagement in simulation. Participants were randomised to one of three groups (Control, Experimental 1 and Experimental 2) to explore differences in engagement via measurement of the Immersion Scale Reporting Instrument (ISRI), self-reported engagement and eye tracking. Participants were interviewed using the Stimulated-Recall technique.Results33 undergraduate medical students participated in the study. There were no statistically significant differences between groups in the ISRI score. Statistically significant results were observed between the groups in the self-reported measure and eye tracking. Participants identified four primary themes that contributed to better engagement in simulation, including (1) the rules of simulation, (2), believability, (3) consistency of presentation and (4) personal knowledge. Limitations to the study include the low participant numbers and the single rater for ISRI scores.RecommendationsOverall, the inclusion of moulage contributed positively to the simulation experience. Participants identified the use of moulage contributed to better suspension of disbelief in a hypothetical scenario, and provided more realistic portrayals of clinical care. The study highlights a need for further work to explore how moulage contributes to learning in health professions education more broadly.<br/
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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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