scholarly journals IPA on the move

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-176
Author(s):  
Henry Brodaty ◽  
Raimundo Mateos
Keyword(s):  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Knowledge Transmission ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Medical Associations ◽  
To Come

Medical associations globally have had to come to grips with new realities in the 21st century. Knowledge transmission has undergone a revolution. Universities, learned colleges, and professional organizations are no longer the custodians of information. New journals spring up weekly and the challenges for most professionals is deciding what not to read. Professional meetings used to be how we meet like-minded associates; now face-to-face conferences are just one of many options to interact with colleagues. Tighter rules regarding relations between industry and healthcare practitioners have resulted in decreased sponsorships, less profitable conferences, and reduced funding generally.

Designing for Social Connectivity (Not Everyone Likes Webcams)

eLearn ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
William P Lord
Keyword(s):  
Social Presence ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Host Institution ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Online Technologies ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Complex Solutions ◽  
To Come

COVID-19 has forced vast numbers of educational institutions to shift their operations from being delivered face-to-face to being delivered online. As a result, academic institutions have had to scramble to find complex solutions that meet systems-wide online teaching and learning needs. The quality of interaction that occurs between the educator and the student is crucial to the success of delivering education via online technologies, and it is incumbent on the host institution to provide a usable, effective, and satisfying form of communication all participants may communicate with while maintaining a sense of social presence. It requires little effort to compile a list of potential benefits of using webcams in educational settings. It is more challenging to come up with a list of conditions as to when you may not require all learners to communicate using webcams. This article explores the benefits and challenges of incorporating webcams in teaching and learning in the online learning environment.

scholarly journals Feasibility of remote Memory Clinics using the plan, do, study, act (PDSA) cycle

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jemima T Collins ◽  
Biju Mohamed ◽  
Antony Bayer
Keyword(s):  
Remote Memory ◽  
Service Improvement ◽  
Attendance Rate ◽  
Memory Clinic ◽  
Improvement Project ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Pdsa Cycle ◽  
Diagnosis Of Dementia ◽  
Memory Clinics ◽  
To Come

Abstract Introduction A timely diagnosis of dementia is crucial for initiating and maintaining support for people living with dementia. The coronavirus disease (COVID) pandemic temporarily halted Memory Clinics, where this is organised, and rate of dementia diagnosis has fallen. Despite increasing use of alternatives to face-to-face (F2F) consultations in other departments, it is unclear whether this is feasible within the traditional Memory Clinic model. Aims The main aim of this service improvement project performed during the pandemic was to explore feasibility of telephone (TC) and videoconference (VC) Memory Clinic consultations. Methods Consecutive patients on the Memory Clinic waiting list were telephoned and offered an initial appointment by VC or TC. Data extracted included: age, internet-enabled device ownership, reason for and choice of Memory Clinic assessment. We noted Montreal Cognitive Assessment-Blind (TC) and Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination-III (VC via Attend Anywhere) scores, and feasibility of consultation. Results Out of 100 patients, 12 had a home assessment, moved away, been hospitalised, or died. 45, 21 and 6 preferred F2F, VC and TC assessments respectively. 16 were not contactable and offered a F2F appointment. The main reason for preferring F2F was non-ownership, or inability to use an internet-enabled device (80%). VC and TC preference reasons were unwillingness to come to hospital (59%), and convenience (41%). Attendance rate was 100% for VC and TC, but 77% for F2F. Feasibility (successful consultations) was seen in 90% (VC) and 67% (TC) patients. Conclusion For able and willing patients, remote Memory Consultations can be both feasible and beneficial. This has implications for future planning in dementia services.

scholarly journals Testing Our Children When the World Shuts Down: Analyzing Recommendations for Adapted Tele-Assessment during COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (8) ◽  
pp. 923-941 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelley Kathleen Krach ◽  
Tracy L. Paskiewicz ◽  
Malaya M. Monk
Keyword(s):  
School Psychologists ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Assessment Methods ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Assessment Practice ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Governmental Agencies ◽  
The World ◽  
Do So

In 2017, the National Association of School Psychologists described tele-assessment as the least researched area of telehealth. This became problematic in 2020 when COVID-19 curtailed the administration of face-to-face assessments. Publishers began to offer computer-adapted tele-assessment methods for tests that had only previously been administered in person. Recommendations for adapted tele-assessment practice had to be developed with little empirical data. The current study analyzed recommendations from entities including professional organizations, test publishers, and governmental offices. The samples for each were small, but the findings were noteworthy. Test publishers were unanimous in recommending the use of their face-to-face assessments through adapted tele-assessment methods (either with or without caution). Governmental agencies were more likely to recommend not using adapted tele-assessment methods or to use these methods with caution. Finally, professional organizations were almost unanimous in their recommendations to use adapted tele-assessment but to do so with caution. In addition to deviations in the types of recommendations provided, entities varied in how the information was distributed. About one-fifth (23.5%) of all entities surveyed provided no recommendations at all. About 45% of the remaining entities provided recommendations on their Web sites. The rest provided information through shared documents, online toolkits, peer-reviewed journals, and emails. Implications for the field of psychology’s future crisis management planning are discussed in response to these findings.

scholarly journals CPA: should it carry a government health warning?

1997 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 432-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. E. Watson
Keyword(s):  
Good Practice ◽  
Care Programme ◽  
Health Warning ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Government Health ◽  
Psychiatric Units ◽  
Catch 22 ◽  
The Government ◽  
To Come ◽  
Idiosyncratic Response

In common with other psychiatric units throughout the land, we have been struggling to come to terms with the Government directives regarding the Care Programme Approach. A great deal of time has been spent attempting to devise a system which is workable and useful but which might leave some time for face-to-face contact with patients; implementing it forces the psychiatrist into a catch–22 situation. If things are seriously wrong for a patient, the psychiatrist could be criticised for not putting somebody on CPA, or criticised for putting them on it but not carrying the process through thoroughly enough. In spite of this, I have participated in the scheme, if only because the consensus would seem to be that it is necessary to have the system in place, mainly as a defensive measure or in the hope of ensuring adequate resources. My overwhelming feeling, however, has been that it has been a time-consuming way of formalising good practice, and that the time spent filling in the forms would be better spent talking to the patients. I have always felt uncomfortable listing needs and solutions with the patient and ‘the team’, because it seemed reductionist, but I thought that this was my idiosyncratic response, and that I should get on with it. Recently, however, there was a near disaster with a patient which served to strengthen my reservations.

Nobody Knows You're a Dog but Everybody Knows You're a Republican

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryon Balint ◽  
Jennifer Gustafson
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
The Political ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Education Levels ◽  
Time Reading ◽  
To Come ◽  
Social Views ◽  
Personal Interests

Geography often serves as at least a partial determinant of economic and cultural characteristics. For example, individuals who live in affluent neighborhoods are likely to come into contact with other individuals who have similar income and education levels, which often tend to be associated with political views and personal interests. However, within electronic social networks (ESNs), geographical barriers weaken or disappear; interacting with someone from another country is as easy as interacting with someone next door. This survey study asks respondents to compare their close friends, people with whom the respondents interact both within an ESN and face-to-face, with their distal friends, people with whom the respondents interact only inside an ESN. Specifically, respondents are asked about the political, religious, and social views of their groups of friends. The results suggest that respondents do perceive significant differences in the views of their close friends versus their distal friends. In addition, respondents who have a higher percentage of close friends and respondents that are more comfortable sharing their own political, religious, and social views are more likely to spend time reading ESN content that conflicts with their views, but are also more likely to block content that conflicts with their views.

Tele-immersion

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Jayanthila Devi
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Geographic Locations ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Virtual Objects ◽  
Advanced Form ◽  
Simulated Environment ◽  
Group Members ◽  
To Come

Tele-immersion is an advanced form of virtual reality that will allow users in different places to interact in real time in a shared simulated environment. Tele-immersion is a technology to be implemented with Internet that will enable users in different geographic locations to come together in a simulated environment to interact. Users will feel like they are actually looking, talking, and meeting with each other face-to-face in the same room.This technology causes users to feel as if they were in the same room. The tele-immersion technology uses a "tele-cubicle" which is equipped with large screens, scanners, sensors, and cameras. The tele-cubicles are linked together in real-time so that they form one larger cubicle. Through the virtual environment, participants are able to interact with other group members. Also, virtual objects and data can be passed through the walls between participants, and placed on the shared table in the middle for viewing.

Power in face-to-face interpreting events

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Mason ◽  
Wen Ren
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Codes Of Conduct ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Institutional Power ◽  
Verbal Behaviors ◽  
Verbal Strategies ◽  
Socially Situated

The traditional view holds that professional interpreters should be transparent, invisible, passive, neutral, and detached, a view reiterated and reinforced in the prescribed interpreters’ codes of conduct of national and international professional organizations. Such an idealized role construct, however, is from time to time deconstructed in real-life face-to-face interpreting events. In this paper, face-to-face interpreting is seen as a three-way communicative event in which the interpreter is a co-constructor of the interaction and can therefore be a powerful figure. From the perspective of interpreting as a socially-situated activity, the paper adopts Michel Foucault’s concept of power, defining it not as the traditionally dominating force to monopolize, control, or rule, but as a kind of strategy, disposition, maneuver, tactic, or technique, functioning in a network of relations. Although interpreters often lack institutional power, they may be equipped with power within the exchange as a result of their bilingual and bicultural expertise. They may exercise this power by adopting various verbal and non-verbal strategies to negotiate, coordinate, check, and balance power relations. This can be specifically manifested in interpreters’ social action as co-interlocutors, empowerment figures, or in the adoption of a non-neutral stance. Examples are cited from authentic interpreting events to analyze interpreters’ power-at-work, focusing on their verbal and non-verbal behaviors, in particular, their positioning and gaze.

scholarly journals E-LEARNING CHALLENGES AS PERCEIVED BY COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE: OPEN UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA'S EXPERIENCES

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abtar Kaur ◽  
Ansary Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Open University ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Learning Challenges ◽  
Learning Practices ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Face To Face Learning ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Right

E-learning has become ingrained in conversations that border around learning, however, how much and how effectively e-learning is practiced and understood is an issue that needs further investigation. This paper will first provide an overview of elearning practices in Malaysia followed by detailed findings of e-learning practices at Open University Malaysia. Findings of a survey done on 26 Malaysian organizations show that only 4% truly practice some form of e-learning. Nevertheless most participants in the survey noted that e-learning will be the preferred choice in time to come. The survey also shows that most organizations are still very comfortable with a blended style of learning or training. Findings of a research conducted at Open University Malaysia (OUM) shows that as a new player in e-learning initiatives, the OUM has achieved much especially in ensuring that its over 30,000 students are practicing some form of e-learning. At OUM, although self-managed and face-to-face learning are the preferred choices, much effort and resources are pumped into elearning in ensuring that OUM has the right mix for its blended mode. The paper will present a report on findings of e-learning and explicate issues within to determine how e-learning efforts can be further refined to support the overall blended pedagogy practiced at OUM.

Gifted African American Women

1998 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 254-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margie K. Kitano
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Ecological Framework ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
American Women ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Positive Coping ◽  
Cultural Ecological

This article describes factors affecting the life-span achievement of IS highly accomplished African American women from a national retrospective study of gifted women from diverse ethnic backgrounds. Participants were nominated as gifted by national professional organizations in their respective fields. Data were collected through face-to-face interviews of the women and telephone questionnaires administered to “parent” informants. Participants perceived that civil-rights and affirmative-action policies opened doors if they were already qualified. Interpreted within a cultural-ecological framework, findings suggested that cultural strengths plus their high ability enabled simultaneous acknowledgment of the effects of racism, sexism, and other hardships and application of positive coping strategies that are derived from these strengths.

scholarly journals Qualitative study of patient views on a ‘telephone-first’ approach in general practice in England: speaking to the GP by telephone before making face-to-face appointments

BMJ Open ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. e026197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah L Ball ◽  
Jennifer Newbould ◽  
Jennie Corbett ◽  
Josephine Exley ◽  
Emma Pitchforth ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
General Practice ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
First Language ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Negative Comments ◽  
Open Plan ◽  
General Practices ◽  
To Come ◽  
New System ◽  
Better Than

ObjectiveTo understand patients’ views on a ‘telephone-first’ approach, in which all appointment requests in general practice are followed by a telephone call from the general practitioner (GP).DesignQualitative interviews with patients and carers.SettingTwelve general practices in England.Participants43 patients, including 30 women, nine aged over 75 years, four parents of young children, five carers, five patients with hearing impairment and two whose first language was not English.ResultsPatients expressed varied views, often strongly held, ranging from enthusiasm for to hostility towards the ‘telephone-first’ approach. The new system suited some patients, avoiding the need to come into the surgery but was problematic for others, for example, when it was difficult for someone working in an open plan office to take a call-back. A substantial proportion of negative comments were about the operation of the scheme itself rather than the principles behind it, for example, difficulty getting through on the phone or being unable to schedule when the GP would phone back. Some practices were able to operate the scheme in a way that met their patients’ needs better than others and practices varied significantly in how they had implemented the approach.ConclusionsThe ‘telephone-first’ approach appears to work well for some patients, but others find it much less acceptable. Some of the reported problems related to how the approach had been implemented rather than the ‘telephone-first’ approach in principle and suggests there may be potential for some of the challenges experienced by patients to be overcome.

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