scholarly journals Motivators and deterrents in choosing a career in psychiatry; making the most of psychiatry school events

BJPsych Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (S1) ◽  
pp. S143-S143
Author(s):  
Nosheen Kazmi ◽  
Emily Lewis ◽  
Catarina Cardoso Rodrigues dos Santos ◽  
Sahana Olety
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
Position Statement ◽  
Service Evaluation ◽  
Recruitment Strategy ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
Future Events

AimsIn response to the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ recruitment strategy, a bi-annual Psychiatry School event was set up in the North West of England. The Psychiatry School aims to inspire medical students and foundation doctors to choose a career in Psychiatry with two days of workshops on different sub-specialties and various aspects of the career pathway. A previous service evaluation has shown attending the event improves attitudes towards psychiatry.The aim is to assess whether improving attitudes to psychiatry has been sustained and gain a clearer understanding of the motivators and deterrents in choosing a career in Psychiatry to better inform future events.MethodAn online questionnaire about positive and negative aspects of psychiatry was sent to attendees of the Autumn North West Psychiatry School 2020 before and after the event.ResultThe total number of completed questionnaires was 62.53.6% people were considering applying for core psychiatry training prior to the event and this rose to 85.3% in the post event questionnaire.Motivators for a career in psychiatry prior to the event included having a better holistic understanding of patients and wide range of sub-specialities. There was a common theme of interest in research opportunities. Dynamic patient-doctor relationship, exploring issues in depth and treating diverse populations were key motivators.It is encouraging to note that 100% responders felt their positive views on psychiatry were validated.The majority of deterrents were disregarded and attendees felt positive about choosing a career in psychiatry.ConclusionFollowing the event, the only negative view on a career in Psychiatry was the concern about the potential impact on one's own mental health. This is an important issue (highlighted in the Royal College of Psychiatrists Position Statement) that deserves consideration at future events to highlight potential effects on Psychiatrists wellbeing and how these can be avoided or mitigated.The wide variety of sub-specialities and opportunities for research were key areas that motivated attendees and we will continue to deliver engaging workshops around these themes.

Layard's drawings of the incised decorations on the Nimrud reliefs compared with the originals

Iraq ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter V. Bartl
Keyword(s):  
Near East ◽  
Ancient Near East ◽  
Political Art ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

The orthostats from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (883–859 BC) at Nimrud are among the most outstanding works of art from the Ancient Near East. Today they are to be found in museums all over the world and are looked at every day by thousands of visitors. Numerous books and articles have been written about their style, their meaning and their reconstruction. Thus one would think that nothing could have escaped the eye of observers. Nevertheless, some details have been largely overlooked by researchers. Among these is the incised decoration on the edges of the garments of some of the figures depicted, showing a wide range of simple geometric and floral designs as well as complex mythical and narrative scenes. It thus forms a valuable part of the repertoire of Neo-Assyrian artistic motifs and can help us understand the essence and meaning of Neo-Assyrian political art. The evidence of these incised decorations is not only of importance for the history of art but is also fundamental to the understanding of the significance of the clothes and of the figures wearing them, forming an integral and essential part of the mythical symbolic character of the figures.

scholarly journals Multisource feedback for the physician associate role

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (4) ◽  
pp. 206-210
Author(s):  
M Theodoraki ◽  
TS Hany ◽  
H Singh ◽  
M Khatri
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Clinical Skills ◽  
Multisource Feedback ◽  
Junior Doctors ◽  
Free Text ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
North West ◽  
The North

Introduction Physician associates (PAs) are dependent medical practitioners who work alongside doctors and other healthcare professionals. There are approximately 350 PAs working throughout the UK, with another 550 in training. Methods An online questionnaire was sent to healthcare professionals throughout the North West region with a total of 119 responding. Participants were asked nine questions on clinical skills and three on communication skills. These were to be rated as ‘excellent’, ‘good’, ‘satisfactory’, ‘needs to improve’ or ‘unacceptable’. In addition, respondents were asked to indicate their agreement with 14 statements about the role of PAs. There was also a field for free text comments. Results Of the 1,071 individual responses to the survey questions on clinical skills, 859 (80%) were ‘excellent’ or ‘good’. Similarly, among the 357 answers to the questions on communication skills, 317 (89%) were ‘excellent’ or ‘good’. Comments in the free text field included both positive and negative observations, with all negative comments coming from junior doctors. Conclusions Overall feedback for the PA role was overwhelmingly positive. However, the most commonly mentioned problem was that they are not being utilised effectively and in turn, that they are taking learning opportunities from junior doctors. This is an important concern to note and warrants further investigation. PAs are clearly useful assets and are set to increase in number in the NHS over the coming years. It is therefore imperative that this new role works well with the existing roles and training structure of junior doctors.

Practising Public Health

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Ashton
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
North West ◽  
External Threats ◽  
The North ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
New Thinking ◽  
The Subject

This book is based on over 40 years work in public health at a time of unprecedented change and challenge. The emphasis is on the practical aspects of working at different levels of action, very much ‘how to do it and how it was done’. As such it is a personal account. This period marked a new era in which the previous medical paradigm, dating from the mid-nineteenth century, was replaced by a broader, multidisciplinary approach, grounded in social science, the humanities, ecology, and public engagement with the politics of health once more coming into focus. The author uses case studies, storytelling, and real-life experience of establishing a new and revitalized public health system in the North West of England to bring the subject alive for a new generation of students and practitioners. Building on historic insights and timeless lessons from the Victorian and early-twentieth-century pioneers, he traces the evolution of the new thinking and its translation into action. The volume offers a rich menu of examples of responses to an array of new challenges ranging from new infections, such as HIV/AIDS and Ebola, to the lifestyle diseases of the new age, and the application of public health thinking to mental health and the problems of an ageing population. The external threats to health from the environment and as a result of man-made disasters and emergencies are extensively covered. The author brings a fresh approach to public health and the communication of public health issues. This work is accessible and stimulating, speaking to a wide range of audiences and sharing his passion for the subject.

The Christian Revolution in Buganda

1959 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. C. Wrigley
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Lake Victoria ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Christian Teaching ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Surrounding Areas ◽  
Christian Beliefs

The kingdom of Buganda, which extends over some seventeen thousand square miles of very fertile country to the north-west of Lake Victoria, was the original nucleus of the British Protectorate to which it has given its name. It was, indeed, the first firm base which the British possessed in the interior of East Africa, and it provided the model, and to a large extent the personnel, for the administration of the surrounding areas. Buganda was also the first part of as East Africa in which Christian teaching took root, and the centre from which Christian beliefs were diffused among a wide range of heathen tribes. The Baganda were the first people in the region to become literate, and the first to take part, with any degree of willingness and success, in the cultivation of exportable crops.

scholarly journals Legacy Data: How Decades of Seabed Sampling can Produce Robust Predictions and Versatile Products

Geosciences ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J Mitchell ◽  
John Aldridge ◽  
Markus Diesing
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Gradients ◽  
Marine Spatial Planning ◽  
Sediment Composition ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Sediment Fraction ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Biophysical Studies ◽  
Legacy Data ◽  
Sand And Gravel

Sediment maps developed from categorical data are widely applied to support marine spatial planning across various fields. However, deriving maps independently of sediment classification potentially improves our understanding of environmental gradients and reduces issues of harmonising data across jurisdictional boundaries. As the groundtruth samples are often measured for the fractions of mud, sand and gravel, this data can be utilised more effectively to produce quantitative maps of sediment composition. Using harmonised data products from a range of sources including the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet), spatial predictions of these three sediment fractions were generated for the north-west European continental shelf using the random forest algorithm. Once modelled these sediment fraction maps were classified using a range of schemes to show the versatility of such an approach, and spatial accuracy maps were generated to support their interpretation. The maps produced in this study are to date the highest resolution quantitative sediment composition maps that have been produced for a study area of this extent and are likely to be of interest for a wide range of applications such as ecological and biophysical studies.

Review of the 2008 offshore petroleum exploration release areas

2008 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 359
Author(s):  
Marita Bradshaw
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
Sedimentary Basins ◽  
Water Area ◽  
Petroleum Exploration ◽  
Adjacent Area ◽  
Petroleum Potential ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Offshore Petroleum

Each year the Australian Government releases new offshore opportunities for petroleum exploration. Thirty-five new exploration areas located across five of Australia’s offshore sedimentary basins are offered in the 2008 Release. All the areas are available through a work program bidding system with closing dates for bids at six and 12 months from the date of release. Acreage in the first round closes on 9 October 2008 and includes the more explored areas. The second closing round on 9 April 2009 comprises acreage located in less well explored and frontier regions. The 2008 exploration areas are in Commonwealth waters offshore of Western Australia and the Northern Territory, and in the Territory of the Ashmore and Cartier Islands adjacent area. The 2008 Release focusses on the North West Shelf, as well as offering two new exploration areas in the Vlaming Sub-basin in the offshore Perth Basin. Seven of the new release areas are located in Australia’s major hydrocarbon producing province, the Carnarvon Basin. They include a shallow water area in the western Barrow Sub-basin and another on the Rankin Platform, three areas in deeper water in the Exmouth Sub-basin and two on the deepwater Exmouth Plateau. Six areas are available for bidding in the Browse Basin and another five in the Bedout Sub-basin of the Roebuck Basin. In the Bonaparte Basin, the 15 Release areas are located in shallow water and represent a range of geological settings, including the Vulcan and Petrel sub-basins, Ashmore Platform and Londonderry High. The 2008 Offshore Petroleum Exploration Release of 35 areas in five basins covers a wide range in size, water depth and exploration maturity to provide investment opportunities suited to both small and large explorers. The Release areas are selected from nominations from industry, the States and Territory, and Geoscience Australia. The focus of the 2008 Release is on the North West Shelf where there is strong industry interest in the producing Carnarvon and Bonaparte basins and in the Browse Basin, the home of super-giant gas fields under active consideration for development. Also included in the 2008 Release is the Bedout Sub-basin, in the Roebuck Basin, located on the central North West Shelf, between the hotly contested Carnarvon and Browse basins. In addition, the Release show-cases the southern Vlaming Sub-basin, Perth Basin, where recent studies by Geoscience Australia provide a new understanding of petroleum potential (Nicholson et al, this volume).

scholarly journals Web GIS for analysis of the past and future of the climate and hydrological conditions in the North-West of Russia

2020 ◽  
Vol 163 ◽  
pp. 05005
Author(s):  
Eduard Kazakov ◽  
Sergey Zhuravlev ◽  
Lyubov Kurochkina ◽  
Georgy Ayzel
Keyword(s):  
Hydrological Regime ◽  
Reanalysis Data ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Web Gis ◽  
Climate Conditions ◽  
North West ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
Average Maximum ◽  
Wide Range

This paper discusses the development of a specialized web GIS (geoportal) dedicated to the analysis of changes in climate conditions and hydrological regime in the North-West of Russia. One of the main goals of geoportal is to provide a tool to answer simple questions about climate for wide range of users. For example, how has the climate and hydrology changed in a particular city over the past 70 years? What will it be like in 50 years? The main functionality, data and creation technologies are presented. Geoportal offers the tools that allow interactive processing of daily data time series on minimum, average, maximum air temperatures, precipitation and surface runoff, represented by both reanalysis data from 1950 and predictive data up to 2100. Information about actual observations at weather stations and hydrological posts is also available. Access to the geoportal is provided through the user’s web GIS interface and through the HTTP interface for developers, which opens up opportunities for integrating data into third-party services.

scholarly journals Digital frontiers in international psychiatric recruitment: the lessons of the Northwest School of Psychiatry careers event November 2020

BJPsych Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (S1) ◽  
pp. S143-S144
Author(s):  
Nosheen Kazmi ◽  
Catarina Rodrigues dos Santos ◽  
Emily Lewis ◽  
Sahana Olety
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Recruitment Strategy ◽  
High Quality ◽  
North West ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The North ◽  
Global Issue ◽  
Personal Connections ◽  
School Events ◽  
Training Position

AimsA low level of psychiatric recruitment is a global issue[1]. The RCPsych & UK Mental Health Trusts jointly run School Events as part of a recruitment strategy. The North West has been running such events for the past years. After our first virtual event, we compare the quality, effectiveness and experience of a face-to-face (F2F) recruitment programme in 2018 with our first remote recruitment programme in 2020. In a world of fast paced technology, we reflect on what lies in the horizon for international psychiatric recruitment.MethodThe recruitment programme was organised by 4 psychiatric trainees affiliated to each mental health trust. A two-day remote programme on the Zoom platform comprising of 45-minute slots was created. Through their own experiences of inspirational speakers, trainees contacted speakers representing different specialities, teaching styles and philosophical outlooks.Pre and Post Programme questionnaires and certificates of attendance were shared with speakers and attendees. These were compared with Pre and Post Programme questionnaires from the F2F event in 2018.ResultWhen compared to the 2018 F2F programme, the 2020 virtual recruitment programme attracted a higher number and wider variety of applicants, in gender (62% female/38%male), nationality (UK 79%/Non-UK 22%), as well as wider distribution in age, UK deanery and training position. Despite the elimination of cost, the quality of teaching was rated higher than F2F due to the availability of high quality speakers (100% would recommend to a friend; 72% rated excellent). Whilst the programme was effective in changing minds, this did not exceed F2F recruitment rates. F2F recruitment feedback focussed on inclusion of sub-specialities, whereas virtual programme feedback focussed on ways to enhance interaction. Feedback focussed on technological applications such as interactive quizzes, breakout rooms, play-acting, and having the benefit of clinical vignettes or speakers’ personal stories to bring talks to life.ConclusionThe use of remote technology transcended geographical and demographic frontiers. A variety of high-quality speakers, directly appealing to an international cohort were sourced, at no monetary cost. In future, the budget will be used in interactive applications, and time-limited session recordings. As the participants hungered for personal connections, we recommend a blended programme, with links to taster sessions, retaining the advantages of both strategies.

scholarly journals A synthetic map of the north-west European Shelf sedimentary environment for applications in marine science

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Wilson ◽  
Douglas C. Speirs ◽  
Alessandro Sabatino ◽  
Michael R. Heath
Keyword(s):  
Grain Size ◽  
North Sea ◽  
Sedimentary Environment ◽  
Marine Policy ◽  
Seabed Sediment ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
West European

Abstract. Seabed sediment mapping is important for a wide range of marine policy, planning and scientific issues, and there has been considerable national and international investment around the world in the collation and synthesis of sediment datasets. However, in Europe at least, much of this effort has been directed towards seabed classification and mapping of discrete habitats. Scientific users often have to resort to reverse engineering these classifications to recover continuous variables, such as mud content and median grain size, that are required for many ecological and biophysical studies. Here we present a new set of 0.125∘ by 0.125∘ resolution synthetic maps of continuous properties of the north-west European sedimentary environment, extending from the Bay of Biscay to the northern limits of the North Sea and the Faroe Islands. The maps are a blend of gridded survey data, statistically modelled values based on distributions of bed shear stress due to tidal currents and waves, and bathymetric properties. Recent work has shown that statistical models can predict sediment composition in British waters and the North Sea with high accuracy, and here we extend this to the entire shelf and to the mapping of other key seabed parameters. The maps include percentage compositions of mud, sand and gravel; porosity and permeability; median grain size of the whole sediment and of the sand and the gravel fractions; carbon and nitrogen content of sediments; percentage of seabed area covered by rock; mean and maximum depth-averaged tidal velocity and wave orbital velocity at the seabed; and mean monthly natural disturbance rates. A number of applications for these maps exist, including species distribution modelling and the more accurate representation of sea-floor biogeochemistry in ecosystem models. The data products are available from https://doi.org/10.15129/1e27b806-1eae-494d-83b5-a5f4792c46fc.

Evaluation of phalaris (Phalaris aquatica L.) germplasm for persistence under grazing on the North-West Slopes, New South Wales

2005 ◽  
Vol 56 (7) ◽  
pp. 731 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Culvenor ◽  
S. P. Boschma
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
New South ◽  
Reproductive Development ◽  
Wild Populations ◽  
North West ◽  
Phalaris Aquatica ◽  
The North ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Summer Dormancy

The survival of available cultivars of introduced temperate perennial grasses has been less than adequate under grazing on the North-West Slopes of New South Wales. A wide range of germplasm of the Mediterranean perennial grass, phalaris (Phalaris aquatica L.), was assessed for persistence, seedling vigour, winter yield potential, time of reproductive development, and summer dormancy in grazed swards at 3 sites (Manilla, Tamworth, Purlewaugh) from 1998 to 2001. The aim was to understand population characteristics that influence persistence in this environment and to identify persistent populations. Good establishment was achieved after above-average winter–spring rainfall in 1998. Persistence was high during the first year of grazing (1999) but declined under lower rainfall during 2000 at the Manilla and Tamworth sites. By 2001, a wide range in persistence had developed at these 2 sites. A group of wild populations, mainly from North Africa, was identified as being more persistent at both sites than any available cultivar. Two early cultivars, Sirocco and CPI 19305, were also relatively persistent. None of the germplasm survived a subsequent severe drought in 2002 at Manilla and Tamworth. Persistence remained high despite higher grazing pressure at the Purlewaugh site until the 2002 drought year, when changes in survival correlated with those at the other sites occurred. Biplot analysis indicated that early reproductive development and high summer dormancy were associated with persistence in both wild and bred populations. High seedling and winter growth potential was less strongly associated with persistence. Wild and bred germplasm from North Africa displayed these characteristics to a marked extent, whereas germplasm from southern Europe and Sardinia did not and was less persistent. A group of wild populations mainly from Morocco was identified as the basis for cultivar development.

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