Smoking Among Medical Students in Hong Kong

1989 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 306-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
KK Cheng ◽  
TH Lam ◽  
A. Ratanasiri
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical Curriculum ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Cigarette Advertising ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Attitudes Toward Smoking ◽  
The University

A survey was conducted among two classes of medical students (N=293) at the University of Hong Kong to study their smoking habits and knowledge of and attitudes toward smoking. The response rate was 97.3%. There was only one daily smoker (0.4%) and 21 occasional smokers (7.4%). While the respondents regarded health and self-discipline as the main reasons for not smoking, the social taboo against smoking among young people might have also deterred this educated elite from smoking. Many of them failed to identify the major causal role of smoking in smoking related diseases. The potential of prevention in encountering a smoking patient seen for reasons unrelated to smoking was not fully realised. There was disagreement in the banning of cigarette advertising and in increasing the price of tobacco products. In the face of aggressive marketing by the tobacco industry in the Asia-Pacific region, every undergraduate medical curriculum should include organized instruction on smoking and its control.

Towards a politics of urban climate responsibility: Insights from Hong Kong and Singapore

Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (7) ◽  
pp. 1469-1484
Author(s):  
Sara Fuller
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Urban Climate ◽  
Spatial Dynamics ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Regional Dynamics ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

Cities are important sites for interrogating the social, scalar and spatial dynamics that underpin climate responsibility. To date, however, there is limited theoretical and empirical understanding about how discourses, practices and politics of climate responsibility might be enacted in the urban context. This gap is particularly significant in the Asia Pacific – a region characterised by high rates of economic growth and rapid urbanisation alongside extreme poverty and exposure to the effects of climate change. This article explores the politics of urban climate responsibility in two cities – Hong Kong and Singapore. Based on empirical research with NGOs, it considers if and how cities have a responsibility to act on climate change, how such responsibility may be configured within the city, and the role of international and regional dynamics in creating and maintaining climate responsibility. The article reframes the contested and contingent geographies of urban climate responsibility through the dimensions of attribution, production and spatialisation before drawing out implications for climate justice and resilience in the Asia Pacific region.

scholarly journals Philosophy, Psychology, and History: George Sidney Brett and the Quest for a Social Science at the University of Toronto, 1910‑1940

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-236
Author(s):  
Michael Gauvreau
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Point Of Intersection ◽  
Unity Of Knowledge ◽  
The University ◽  
Structure Of Knowledge ◽  
English Canadian

Abstract Between his appointment to the department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto in 1908 until his death in 1944, George Sidney Brett directed the bulk of his writing and teaching to the preservation of the relationship between the sciences and the humanities. In the face of the unpalatable extremes of scientific determinism and the revolutionary celebration of irrationalism, Brett resolutely asserted the unity of knowledge. This, he insisted, rested upon discovering a point of intersection between nature, mind, and society. Brett's writings emphasized the central role of psychology in preserving this unity. In his estimation, psychology possessed close links to the natural sciences of physiology and biology but, more importantly, the study of the human mind was also vitally related to the traditional humanities of philosophy, history, and literature. His belief — that humanistic, philosophical values underlay the structure of knowledge —points to a fundamental divergence between English-Canadian and American universities in the early twentieth century. Brett's standpoint was directed to resisting the fragmentation and specialization which characterized the development of the social sciences in American universities. The fact that Brett and some influential social scientists at the University of Toronto pursued, until the 1940s, a method of organizing their disciplines which preserved the unspecialized, philosophical, and historical emphases associated with the humanistic ideal, indicates the need to revise explanations of the rise of the social sciences in English-Canadian universities.

The face of Hong Kong

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-34
Author(s):  
Mike Yiu Yan Leung ◽  
Wing Shan Choi ◽  
Peter Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Maxillofacial Surgery ◽  
Oral And Maxillofacial Surgery ◽  
Facial Deformity ◽  
Treatment Needs ◽  
The Face ◽  
The University

We have reported previously on the organisation of oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMFS) services in Hong Kong, and the role of the academic discipline within the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Hong Kong. 1 This article reviews OMFS involvement in the management of dental and facial deformity, with particular reference to the treatment needs of the local population.

scholarly journals Introduction of a new teaching method to support Professional Identify Formation in medical students 

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salome Scholtens ◽  
Hedwig Boer ◽  
Margreet Smit ◽  
Jan Jacob Stam ◽  
Pieter C Barnhoorn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical Curriculum ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Implicit Knowledge ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
The Social ◽  
Identify Formation ◽  
The University

Abstract Professional Identify Formation is regarded as fundamental to medical education. It involves a process of socialisation where knowledge is often acquired unconsciously via social interaction. Concrete teachings to support and mediate this socialisation process are difficult to implement, because of the implicit nature of the transferred knowledge. Before effective reflection can start, the implicit knowledge has to become explicit. The authors argue that training based on the Systemic Constellation method may be a promising way to support Professional Identify Formation among medical students, by increasing students’ awareness of their own socialisation process and the implicit knowledge that they have acquired. By visualising their social context with a group of students, the method is effective in making explicit the social context and the values, beliefs, perspectives that are present. This creates the possibility to discuss these values, beliefs, perspectives and explore differences, and stimulates individual and group reflection. The method is already widely used in business settings, but not yet in the medical education setting. This article presents how this new training method was implemented in the undergraduate medical curriculum of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and discusses its feasibility, acceptance and perceived usefulness by medical students.

Party-Political and Socio-Economic Сonsequences of Elections to the German Bundestag

2021 ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
V.B. Belov
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Social Democrats ◽  
The Social ◽  
Angela Merkel ◽  
The Face ◽  
German Bundestag ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Further Development

The article examines the results of the last Bundestag elections. They marked the end of the Angela Merkel era and reflected the continuation of difficult party-political and socio-economic processes in the informal leader of the European Union. The main attention of the research focuses on the peculiarities of the election campaign of the leading parties and of the search for ways of further development of Germany in the face of urgent economic and political challenges. These challenges include the impact of the coronavirus crisis, the impact of the energy and digital transition to a climate-neutral economy, and the complex international situation. Based on original sources, the author analyzes the causes of the SPD victory and the CDU/CSU bloc defeat, the results of the negotiations of the Social Democrats with the Greens and Liberals, the content of the coalition agreement from the point of view of the prospects for the development of domestic and foreign policy and the economy of Russia's main partner in the west of the Eurasian continent. The conclusion is made about the absence of breakthrough ideas, the consistent continuation of the course started by the previous government for a carbon-free economy and the strengthening of the role of Germany in Europe and the world. For this course, conflicts and problems in achieving the set goals will be immanent due to the compromising nature of the coalition agreements.

scholarly journals Curriculum design in theology and development: Human agency and the prophetic role of the church

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Beverley Haddad
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
The Social ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
The University ◽  
The Church

The field of theology and development is a relatively new sub-discipline within theological studies in Africa. The first formal post-graduate programme was introduced at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa during the mid-1990s. In the early years it was known as the Leadership and Development programme and since 2000, as the Theology and Development programme. Over the past twenty years, this programme has graduated over 160 BTh Honours, 100 MTh, and 15 PhD students. This article outlines the history of the programme, addresses its ideological orientation, its pedagogical commitments and preferences in curriculum design. It further argues that theological reflection on “development” must seek to understand the prophetic role of the church in responding to the complexities of the social issues facing the African continent.  Key to this discussion is the contested nature of “development” and the need for theological perspectives to engage this contestation through a social analysis of the global structures of injustice. This requires an engagement with the social sciences. It is this engagement of the social sciences with theological reflection, the essay argues, that has enabled the students who have graduated from the Theology and Development Programme at the University of KwaZulu-Natal to assist the church and faith-based organisations to become effective agents of social transformation.

scholarly journals Envolvendo estudantes de Direito em uma equipe multidisciplinar: ensino, pesquisa, extensão e responsabilidade social

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-79
Author(s):  
Fabiola De Sampaio Rodrigues Grazinoli Garrido ◽  
Rodrigo Grazinoli Garrido
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Multidisciplinary Teams ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Tutorial Program ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University

Trabalhos desenvolvidos em equipes multidisciplinares devem ser rotina para os futuros egressos do curso de direito. O objetivo desse artigo é discutir algumas estratégias e planos de trabalho utilizados no Programa de Educação Tutorial Conexões de Saberes que envolve estudantes do curso de direito da Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro no campus de Três Rios, interior do Rio de Janeiro. Nessa perspectiva, o engajamento dos estudantes em projetos do tem contribuído como um campo experimental para o desenvolvimento das habilidades necessárias aos bacharéis em direito, bem como para a percepção do papel social do futuro profissional. Desde 2014, a equipe desenvolve projetos que discutem a função da universidade junto à comunidade, abordando sobretudo questões relacionadas a grupos vulneráveis e a aspectos agroambientais.Palavras-chave: aprendizagem significativa; formação integradora; projetos na graduação. Abstract Work performed in multidisciplinary teams should be routine for future graduates of the law courses. The aim of this paper is to discuss some strategies and work plans used in the Connections of Knowledge Tutorial Program that involves law students of the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro on the campus of Três Rios, in the interior of Rio de Janeiro. In this perspective, students' engagement in projects has contributed as an experimental field for the development of the skills required by law graduates, as well as for the perception of the social role of the professional future. Since 2014, the team has developed projects that discuss the role of the university in the community, addressing issues related to vulnerable groups and agro-environmental aspects.

scholarly journals Magyar Imre orvosprofesszor mint abszolút pedagógus

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (21) ◽  
pp. 36-46
Author(s):  
Árpád Hudra
Keyword(s):  
Internal Medicine ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical Training ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Inaugural Address ◽  
Training And Education ◽  
Big Picture ◽  
Internal Medicine Clinic ◽  
The University

Imre Magyar, the last great representative of the Korányi School, who was appointed as the director and professor of the Internal Medicine Clinic I of the Budapest University of Medicine in 1965, emphasised in his inaugural address that from the three closely intertwined functions of the university clinic, i.e. patient care, research and medical training and education, he considers the latter the most important. The study intends to present that Imre Magyar, as an absolute educator, pursued this objective until his retirement in 1980. In his inaugural address he regarded lectures given by teachers of higher calibre with the intention to teach students medical thinking as one of the most important components of education. He even looked at lectures rather as seminars, never forgetting to make presentations on patients. Textbooks were meant for home education. Magyar, however, also “provided assistance” with this for medical students. His functional holistic thinking made it possible that medicine as specialised sciences be once again summarised as a uniform internal medicine dealing with the whole individual in his textbooks co-written by Petrányi and used in medical training for decades. Making a concrete connection with the patient, appropriate verbal and metacommunications, empathy, understanding and showing appropriate medical behaviour were, in his view, prerequisites for becoming a doctor. That is why he was concerned about the function of the doctor’s character in healing, and conducted investigations also described in this study on several occasions in relation with the cultivation of medical students. That is why Imre Magyar, who saw the big picture of education, emphasised the vital role of literature, arts and music in a doctor’s life.

scholarly journals Professor of the Kuibyshev Planning Institute Vasily Lvovich Pogodin: materials for the biography

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 214-222
Author(s):  
Yulia Aleksandrovna Zherdeva
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Military Career ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The Social ◽  
Planning Institute ◽  
The University ◽  
Far Eastern

The paper is based on archival materials about the activities of the Kuibyshev Planning Institute of the 1930s. It reconstructs the biography of the Russian and Soviet diplomat, military and academic of the first third of the 20th century, Vasily Lvovich Pogodin (1870 - after 1937). The study reveals a set of documentary evidence on the diplomatic and pedagogical career of V. Pogodin in the first years of the Soviet power, and determines the features of his pedagogical and party activities in Kuibyshev in 1933-1937. The author highlights a special role of the Planning Institute party committee materials as well as the high school workers trade union in the reconstruction of Pogodins biography. The paper emphasizes that Pogodin was considered to be one of the best lecturers of the Kuibyshev Planning Institute and a credible party worker. It is noted that his noble origin, service in the tsarist army and membership in the party of the Social Revolutionaries until 1937 were not the reason for penalties or prosecution by the party or the university administration. As a result, the author concludes that the fate of Vasily Lvovich Pogodin shows an extraordinary character of his personality. He made a brilliant military career in the years of the late Russian empire and became a major general of the Russian imperial army. Then he managed to integrate into the new Soviet system, radically changing the sphere of his activity and having achieved no less outstanding results in diplomacy and education. He became the plenipotentiary representative of the Far Eastern Republic in China, the director of a number of educational and cultural institutions of the Far East, then a professor of political economy in Kuibyshev.

scholarly journals SUSTENTACIÓN DE UN OBSERVATORIO ARQUITECTÓNICO EN LA UNIVERSIDAD ANTONIO NARIÑO, SEDE VILLAVICENCIO (META)

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 137-156
Author(s):  
SANDRA NARANJO ◽  
◽  
JUAN GONZALEZ
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
University Education ◽  
Social Projection ◽  
The Social ◽  
Training Research ◽  
The University ◽  
University Training

This article presents the results of the interdisciplinary collaboration of the authors, from their fields of research, to reflect on the guidelines of the three substantive functions of the university: training, research and extension, linked these last two with the social projection, to support the design of an architectural observatory at the Antonio Nari- ño University, Villavicencio headquarters, under the premise that a research scenario of this type, in addition to linking these functions offers a series of conditions and benefits in terms of the demands of university education and the role of the university in society.

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