Building a Cochlear Implant Practice: Five Lessons Learned

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-21
Author(s):  
Anne M. Lobdell ◽  
Joseph E. Dansie ◽  
Sarah Hargus Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implant ◽  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Clinical Aspects ◽  
University Of Utah ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Speech Science ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

Cochlear implants are becoming available to an increasing proportion of the deaf and hard-of-hearing population. As interest in and success with cochlear implants has grown, more and more private practice clinics are incorporating them into their scopes of practice. Over the past 2 years, the first 2 authors of this article have been heavily involved in developing cochlear implant programs in separate otolaryngology private practices. A recent conversation about this process revealed several common experiences and lessons learned. During these same 2 years, the third author began teaching the cochlear implant course at the University of Utah. Although her audiology and speech science background gave her extensive knowledge of the science behind cochlear implants, she had no clinical experience with them. The first author took this course the first time the third author taught it, and the experiences and insights she shared with the third author during and since the course have been an important component of the third author’s personal education in the clinical aspects of cochlear implants. In this article, the first 2 authors share 5 things we wish we had known when first beginning their work with cochlear implants.

Adult and Pediatric Cochlear Implant Programs at the University of Michigan

1996 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa A. Zwolan ◽  
Paul R. Kileny ◽  
Susan Zimmerman-Phillips ◽  
Steven A. Telian
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implant ◽  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Team Approach ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Rehabilitation Process ◽  
The Past ◽  
The University

The Cochlear Implant Program at the University of Michigan has evolved over the past several years and is strongly dependent on a team approach to clinical care. Members of the team work closely together to assist patients and their families as they participate in the implant evaluation and rehabilitation process. We feel fortunate that we have been able to help so many profoundly deaf individuals and look forward to continued growth and future advances that will inevitably come about in the field of cochlear implants.

scholarly journals Experience with Online Delivery of an Engineering Technical Elective Course

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Wallace ◽  
Harpreet Dhariwal
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Online Delivery ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Physical Presence ◽  
Elective Course ◽  
On Line ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

MIE 515, Alternative Energy Systems, an engineering technical elective course open to senior undergraduates and graduate students, was delivered as an on line course for Fall 2011. This is the first time an undergraduate engineering course at the University of Toronto has been offered online. The course is also one of five pilot online courses across the University. The move online is being accomplished in two steps. For Fall 2011, a small lecture section of 25 students was used as a setting for video capture and the remaining 110 students accessed the course lectures online asynchronously. A live tutorial was offered once a week. All students were physically present for the midterm examination and the final examination. For Fall 2012, the course will be delivered entirely online, with the exception of student physical presence for the two examinations. Pedagogical and technical lessons learned during this transition year will be presented. The benefits and drawbacks of online delivery will be discussed from the perspective gained this year and compared with our expectations. Student feedback will also be presented and discussed.

scholarly journals Ebola in Africa - Discoveries in the past decade

2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
R R Arthur
Keyword(s):  
Laboratory Diagnosis ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Clinical Aspects ◽  
Haemorrhagic Fever ◽  
The Past ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
The Republic ◽  
And Control ◽  
First Time

Within the past decade, Ebola haemorrhagic fever (EHF) has been recognised for the first time in four countries. Our understanding of the epidemiology, clinical aspects, laboratory diagnosis and control measures for EHF has improved considerably as a result of the outbreaks in these countries and the re-emergence that has occurred in another. The coordinated international responses to several of the large EHF outbreaks serve as models for controlling epidemics of other communicable diseases. This report is a chronological overview of the EHF outbreaks in Africa during the past decade, including the recent epidemics in Gabon and the Republic of the Congo, and highlights new discoveries and some of the remaining challenges.

Lessons Learned From Three Months of Pharmaceutical-Care Digital-Education at the University of Basel, Switzerland

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (11) ◽  
pp. 479-481
Author(s):  
Isabelle Arnet ◽  
Pascal C. Baumgartner ◽  
Vera Bernhardt ◽  
Markus L. Lampert ◽  
Kurt E. Hersberger
Keyword(s):  
Pharmaceutical Care ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Digital Education ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Online Format ◽  
The University

An acceptable degree of digital literacy has always been present among the pharmacy teaching staff in Basel, with PowerPoint being the main vehicle to present teaching materials in front of full or half classes. Because cell phones became inseparable from students over the past years, mobile voting (movo.ch) or e-quizzes (mentimeter.com) have been regularly used to hold the attention of all students during collective teaching. Moreover, e-assessment on iPad® with the software BeAxi (www.k2prime.com) was introduced in 2012 and is currently used for all evaluations and exams. Suddenly over the night of March 16, 2020, our university, as all universities around the world, had to transfer all courses to an online format and to empower lecturers to teach from their home. This paper offers one perspective for how this digitial experiment unfolded at the University of Basel in Basel, Switzerland.

scholarly journals Engage for Equity: A Long-Term Study of Community-Based Participatory Research and Community-Engaged Research Practices and Outcomes

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 380-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Wallerstein ◽  
John G. Oetzel ◽  
Shannon Sanchez-Youngman ◽  
Blake Boursaw ◽  
Elizabeth Dickson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Research ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Theory Of Change ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Engaged Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Long Term Study ◽  
The University

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) and community-engaged research have been established in the past 25 years as valued research approaches within health education, public health, and other health and social sciences for their effectiveness in reducing inequities. While early literature focused on partnering principles and processes, within the past decade, individual studies, as well as systematic reviews, have increasingly documented outcomes in community support and empowerment, sustained partnerships, healthier behaviors, policy changes, and health improvements. Despite enhanced focus on research and health outcomes, the science lags behind the practice. CBPR partnering pathways that result in outcomes remain little understood, with few studies documenting best practices. Since 2006, the University of New Mexico Center for Participatory Research with the University of Washington’s Indigenous Wellness Research Institute and partners across the country has engaged in targeted investigations to fill this gap in the science. Our inquiry, spanning three stages of National Institutes of Health funding, has sought to identify which partnering practices, under which contexts and conditions, have capacity to contribute to health, research, and community outcomes. This article presents the research design of our current grant, Engage for Equity, including its history, social justice principles, theoretical bases, measures, intervention tools and resources, and preliminary findings about collective empowerment as our middle range theory of change. We end with lessons learned and recommendations for partnerships to engage in collective reflexive practice to strengthen internal power-sharing and capacity to reach health and social equity outcomes.

Three New Schleiermacher Letters Relating to His Würzburg Appointment of 1804

1975 ◽  
Vol 68 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 333-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert L. Blackwell
Keyword(s):  
The Third ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

In a letter written on his thirty-fifth birthday, November 21, 1803, Schleiermacher called the year just past the unhappiest of his life. This troubled year provides the background for three letters Schleiermacher wrote to the Würzburg theologian Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob Paulus in January, February, and May, 1804, which are published for the first time below. The first letter is Schleiermacher's reply to an invitation, transmitted by Paulus, for Schleiermacher to join the theological faculty of the University of Würzburg. The second relates to Schleiermacher's acceptance of this Bavarian appointment and to his plans to move there. The third explains the necessity Schleiermacher subsequently faced of breaking his Würzburg contract in order to obey King Friedrich Wilhelm III's command to remain in his Prussian fatherland.

A Case Study on Agile Estimating and Planning using Scrum

1970 ◽  
Vol 111 (5) ◽  
pp. 123-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Mahnic
Keyword(s):  
Development Process ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Effort Estimation ◽  
The Third ◽  
Software Companies ◽  
Student Teams ◽  
Development Teams ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

We describe a case study that was conducted at the University of Ljubljana with the aim of studying the behavior of development teams using Scrum for the first time, i.e., a situation typical for software companies trying to introduce Scrum into their development process. 13 student teams were required to develop an almost real project strictly using Scrum. The data on project management activities were collected in order to measure the amount of work completed, compliance with the release and iteration plans, and ability of effort estimation, thus contributing to evidence-based assessment of the typical Scrum processes. It was found that the initial plans and effort estimates were over-optimistic, but the abilities of estimating and planning improved from Sprint to Sprint. Most teams were able to define almost accurate Sprint plans after three Sprints. In the third Sprint the velocity stabilized and the actual achievement almost completely matched the plan. Bibl. 25, tabl. 4 (in English; abstracts in English and Lithuanian).http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.eee.111.5.372

scholarly journals Point-of-Care Testing as an Influenza Surveillance Tool: Methodology and Lessons Learned from Implementation

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa H. Gren ◽  
Christina A. Porucznik ◽  
Elizabeth A. Joy ◽  
Joseph L. Lyon ◽  
Catherine J. Staes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Point Of Care ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Research Network ◽  
Influenza Surveillance ◽  
Statistical Process ◽  
University Of Utah ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
The University

Objectives. Disease surveillance combines data collection and analysis with dissemination of findings to decision makers. The timeliness of these activities affects the ability to implement preventive measures. Influenza surveillance has traditionally been hampered by delays in both data collection and dissemination. Methods. We used statistical process control (SPC) to evaluate the daily percentage of outpatient visits with a positive point-of-care (POC) influenza test in the University of Utah Primary Care Research Network. Results. Retrospectively, POC testing generated an alert in each of 4 seasons (2004–2008, median 16 days before epidemic onset), suggesting that email notification of clinicians would be 9 days earlier than surveillance alerts posted to the Utah Department of Health website. In the 2008-09 season, the algorithm generated a real-time alert 19 days before epidemic onset. Clinicians in 4 intervention clinics received email notification of the alert within 4 days. Compared with clinicians in 6 control clinics, intervention clinicians were 40% more likely to perform rapid testing () and twice as likely to vaccinate for seasonal influenza () after notification. Conclusions. Email notification of SPC-generated alerts provided significantly earlier notification of the epidemic onset than traditional surveillance. Clinician preventive behavior was not significantly different in intervention clinics.

The Third Manifesto: ‘We Shall Come to See’

1988 ◽  
Vol 4 (14) ◽  
pp. 120-121
Author(s):  
John Andreasen
Keyword(s):  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
Science And Politics ◽  
The University ◽  
Changing Society

In June 1985, a fortnight's discussions on ‘The Theatre in the Future’ were held as part of the Fools' Festival in Copenhagen. The seminars discussed the position of theatre and its possibilities in a rapidly changing society, often from deeply opposed positions – socially engaged versus wildly avant-garde, verbal versus imagistic, anthropological versus robotic, and so on. Participants were an exciting mix of professional performers of many kinds, plus theatre critics and ‘ordinary’ engaged people, who for two weeks exchanged experiences and visions of theatre in conjunction with other art forms, and with science and politics. The manifesto below was the contribution to these seminars of John Andreasen, a veteran of ‘sixties happenings, who has subsequently concentrated on street and environmental theatre, and for the past twelve years has taught and directed in the Drama Department of the University of Aarhus.

Feeding the Nuclear Safety Culture Pipeline

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan C. Schow ◽  
Tatjana Jevremovic
Keyword(s):  
Safety Culture ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Nuclear Safety ◽  
Nuclear Industry ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
University Of Utah ◽  
New Students ◽  
Nuclear Environment ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

The University of Utah Nuclear Engineering Program (UNEP) has established and continues to build a strong nuclear safety culture by developing class and laboratory soft skills training and activities. An effective safety-culture is essential to nuclear safety and can help prevent errors and misconduct by ensuring expectations and consequences are clearly stated and understood. Academic and research reactors present additional challenges as new students are joining the program and nuclear environment for the first time. The UNEP is leading the way in establishing and building a strong positive nuclear safety culture. Social media and practical training is being developed that is intertwined with class and laboratory work along with integrating industry used tools and software to prepare the future nuclear workforce to meet the needs of the nuclear industry.

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