Can Creativity Be Taught?

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nellie Hermann
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Reflective Writing ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Medical School Faculty ◽  
Writing Practices ◽  
Healthcare Settings ◽  
Creative Insight ◽  
Discovery Potential ◽  
School Faculty ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter is a practical manual for teaching writing in unusual places. Reflective and creative writing have become widespread in healthcare settings, yet little is known about how to effectively structure writing experiences, how to respond to creative writing, and how to assess the dividends of writing practices. Written by a novelist on a medical school faculty, the chapter shows how to encourage writing in healthcare and how readers can guide writers toward the discovery potential of writing. “A Reader’s Guide for Reflective Writing” is provided to give guidance to those new to the task of reading and commenting on students’ creative writing. The chapter also provides guidelines for structuring writing seminars, choosing texts to study, and crafting the writing prompts that invite participants to write. Through extensive quotation and close reading of students’ writing, the chapter leads readers toward creative insight into the creativity of others.

scholarly journals Concerning trends in allopathic medical school faculty rank for Indigenous people: 2014–2016

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 1508267
Author(s):  
Erik Brodt ◽  
Amanda Bruegl ◽  
Erin K. Thayer ◽  
M. Patrice Eiff ◽  
Kelly Gonzales ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical School ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Medical School Faculty ◽  
Faculty Rank ◽  
School Faculty

scholarly journals Dismembering organisation: The coordination of algorithmic work in healthcare

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 546-571
Author(s):  
Simon Bailey ◽  
Dean Pierides ◽  
Adam Brisley ◽  
Clara Weisshaar ◽  
Tom Blakeman
Keyword(s):  
Acute Kidney Injury ◽  
Kidney Injury ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Healthcare Settings ◽  
Expected Performance ◽  
Sociological Literature ◽  
Insight Into

Algorithms are increasingly being adopted in healthcare settings, promising increased safety, productivity and efficiency. The growing sociological literature on algorithms in healthcare shares an assumption that algorithms are introduced to ‘support’ decisions within an interactive order that is predominantly human-oriented. This article presents a different argument, calling attention to the manner in which organisations can end up introducing a non-negotiable disjuncture between human-initiated care work and work that supports algorithms, which the authors call algorithmic work. Drawing on an ethnographic study, the authors describe how two hospitals in England implemented an Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) algorithm and analyse ‘interruptions’ to the algorithm’s expected performance. When the coordination of algorithmic work occludes care work, the study finds a ‘dismembered’ organisation that is algorithmically-oriented rather than human-oriented. In the discussion, the authors examine the consequences of coordinating human and non-human work in each hospital and conclude by urging sociologists of organisation to attend to the importance of the formal in algorithmic work. As the use of algorithms becomes widespread, the analysis provides insight into how organisations outside of healthcare can also end up severing tasks from human experience when algorithmic automation is introduced.

scholarly journals The Materiality of English Suicide Letters, c. 1700 – c. 1850

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Ella Sbaraini
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Emotional Distress ◽  
History Of Emotions ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
Writing Practices ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Press ◽  
History Of ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract Scholars have explored eighteenth-century suicide letters from a literary perspective, examining issues of performativity and reception. However, it is fruitful to see these letters as material as well as textual objects, which were utterly embedded in people's social lives. Using thirty manuscript letters, in conjunction with other sources, this article explores the contexts in which suicide letters were written and left for others. It looks at how authors used space and other materials to convey meaning, and argues that these letters were epistolary documents usually meant for specific, known persons, rather than the press. Generally written by members of the ‘lower orders’, these letters also provide insight into the emotional writing practices of the poor, and their experiences of emotional distress. Overall, this article proposes that these neglected documents should be used to investigate the emotional and material contexts for eighteenth- and nineteenth-century suicide. It also argues that, at a time when the history of emotions has reached considerable prominence, historians must be more attentive to the experiences of the suicidal.

scholarly journals Nanopore sequencing provides rapid and reliable insight into microbial profiles of Intensive Care Units

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guilherme Marcelino Viana de Siqueira ◽  
Felipe Marcelo Pereira-dos-Santos ◽  
Rafael Silva-Rocha ◽  
Maria-Eugenia Guazzaroni
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Intensive Care Units ◽  
Nanopore Sequencing ◽  
Accurate Identification ◽  
Complex Samples ◽  
Healthcare Settings ◽  
Long Read ◽  
Single Use ◽  
Sequencing Platforms ◽  
Insight Into

Fast and accurate identification of pathogens is an essential task in healthcare settings. Next generation sequencing platforms such as Illumina have greatly expanded the capacity with which different organisms can be detected in hospital samples, and third-generation nanopore-driven sequencing devices such as Oxford Nanopore's minION have recently emerged as ideal sequencing platforms for routine healthcare surveillance due to their long-read capacity and high portability. Despite its great potential, protocols and analysis pipelines for nanopore sequencing are still being extensively validated. In this work, we assess the ability of nanopore sequencing to provide reliable community profiles based on 16S rRNA sequencing in comparison to traditional Illumina platforms using samples collected from Intensive Care Units from a hospital in Brazil. While our results point that lower throughputs may be a shortcoming of the method in more complex samples, we show that the use of single-use Flongle flowcells in nanopore sequencing runs can provide insightful information on the community composition in healthcare settings.

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