scholarly journals Effectiveness of a summer school in influencing medical students' attitudes towards psychiatry

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (11) ◽  
pp. 367-371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Beattie ◽  
Clare Lister ◽  
Julie May Khan ◽  
Peter L. Cornwall
Keyword(s):  
Summer School ◽  
Cumulative Effect ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Recruitment Strategies ◽  
Longitudinal Impact ◽  
Career Intentions ◽  
Positive Shift ◽  
Career Intention ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Summer Schools

Aims and methodSummer schools are advocated as part of the national recruitment initiative despite little evidence of their impact. This study evaluates the effectiveness of a 3-day non-clinical initiative. Change in attitudes and career intention were measured by administering a questionnaire, which included the 30-item Attitudes Toward Psychiatry (ATP-30) survey, at the start and end of the event.ResultsMean ATP-30 scores increased from 119 to 128, which represented a highly statistically significant change (t = 5.40, d.f. = 18, P < 0.001). A positive shift in intention to pursue psychiatry as a career was demonstrated.Clinical implicationsThese results suggest well-planned summer schools can have a significant impact on students' attitudes. Despite high initial ATP-30 scores a positive shift in attitudes and career intentions was still seen. Further evaluation of the longitudinal impact is needed. Events such as this are important and likely produce a cumulative effect alongside other recruitment strategies.

scholarly journals Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Career Intention Among Undergraduate Medical Students: A Single-center Cross-Sectional Study in Hubei Province

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xue-lin Wang ◽  
Ming-xiu Liu ◽  
Shuai Peng ◽  
Lei Yang ◽  
Chen Lu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Health Worker ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Career Planning ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Students ◽  
Career Intentions ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Career Intention ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background：Undergraduate medical (UM) students faced the realities of the difficulties inherent in medical careers due to the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak. Thus imperative containment measures could affect UM students’ career intentions. There is limited information regarding the factors potentially associated with these students’ career change intentions.Methods：we conducted a cross-sectional survey to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on career intention and the associated factors in UM students in August 2020. Univariate analyses and logistic regression analysis were used to identify the factors that contributed to any change of career intention.Results: A total of 2,040 medical students were contained from Hubei University of Medicine. The change of career intention was related to grade, attitude towards being a health worker and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.Conclusions: Changes in career intentions were particularly influenced by grade, attitude towards being a health worker, and the degree of COVID-19’s impact on the participants’ lives. Treating large-scale public health emergencies in rational way, setting up correct views of occupation choice and building reasonable career planning may reduce the loss of medical talents.

scholarly journals TRAINING IN INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR CLOSE-RANGE SENSING IN ALPINE TERRAIN

2018 ◽  
Vol IV-2 ◽  
pp. 239-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Rutzinger ◽  
M. Bremer ◽  
B. Höfle ◽  
M. Hämmerle ◽  
R. Lindenbergh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Summer School ◽  
Laser Scanning ◽  
Project Planning ◽  
High Mountain ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Range Sensing ◽  
Hazard Management ◽  
Mountain Environments ◽  
Close Range ◽  
Summer Schools

The 2nd international summer school “Close-range sensing techniques in Alpine terrain” was held in July 2017 in Obergurgl, Austria. Participants were trained in selected close-range sensing methods, such as photogrammetry, laser scanning and thermography. The program included keynotes, lectures and hands-on assignments combining field project planning, data acquisition, processing, quality assessment and interpretation. Close-range sensing was applied for different research questions of environmental monitoring in high mountain environments, such as geomorphologic process quantification, natural hazard management and vegetation mapping. The participants completed an online questionnaire evaluating the summer school, its content and organisation, which helps to improve future summer schools.

scholarly journals Does initial postgraduate career intention and social demographics predict perceived career behaviour? A national cross-sectional survey of UK postgraduate doctors

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. e026444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian Marion Scanlan ◽  
Jennifer Cleland ◽  
Suzanne Anderson Stirling ◽  
Kim Walker ◽  
Peter Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
Specialty Training ◽  
Career Decision Making ◽  
Career Intentions ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Career Intention ◽  
Original Intention

ObjectiveStudies indicate that initial career intentions and personal characteristics (eg, gender) can influence medical career decision-making. However, little is known about how personal characteristics and intention interact with career decision-making. To address this gap, we examined the link between career intention at the start of the 2-year UK Foundation Programme (FP) and career intentions on its completion.MethodsData came from the 2017 UK National Career Destination Survey, a cross-sectional study completed by all second year foundation doctors. We included respondents’ demographics (gender, graduate status on entry to medical school, career intention on starting the FP) and career intention as an outcome measure (eg, specialty (residency) training (UK), NHS non-training posts/further study, career break, working abroad). Multinomial regression was used to assess the independent relationship between background characteristics and career intention.ResultsThere were 6890 participants and 5570 usable responses. 55.9% of respondents were female and 43.1% were male, 77.1% were non-graduates and 22.9% were graduate entrants to medical school. Approximately two-thirds (62.3%, n=2170) of doctors who had an original intention to pursue specialty training after F2, still intended to do so on completion. Most of those who stated at the start of F2 that they did not want to pursue specialty indicated at the end of F2 they would be undertaking other employment opportunities outwith formal training. However, 37.7% of respondents who originally intended to pursue specialty training on FP completion did something different. Graduate entrants to medicine were more likely to immediately progress into specialty training compared with their peers who did medicine as a primary first degree.ConclusionOriginal intention is a strong predictor of career intentions at the end of the FP. However, a considerable proportion of doctors changed their mind during the FP. Further research is needed to understand this behaviour.

scholarly journals Electroconvulsive therapy: medical students' attitudes and knowledge

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Kinnair ◽  
Sheila Dawson ◽  
Roshan Perera
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Direct Observation ◽  
Electroconvulsive Therapy ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Attitudinal Change ◽  
Negative Perceptions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Attitudes And Knowledge ◽  
Students Attitudes

Aims and methodWith increasing numbers of students and falling numbers of individuals receiving electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) it has been difficult to timetable all students to witness ECT, and it has been suggested that this experience may be dispensed with. However, we wondered how the experience of witnessing ECT might enhance students' knowledge and, just as importantly, challenge negative perceptions of ECT. We surveyed students' attitudes and knowledge at the beginning and the end of their 8-week attachment in psychiatry.ResultsThere appears to be a clear benefit in terms of knowledge and positive attitudinal change for students who both witness ECT and receive a lecture on the subject.Clinical implicationsDirect observation of ECT can challenge and affect attitudes in ways a lecture may not. Any changes to the provision of ECT teaching for medical students, including replacing witnessing ECT, needs to be carefully developed and assessed.

scholarly journals The Summer Schools of the Vatican Observatory

1990 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 408-413
Author(s):  
Martin McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Graduate School ◽  
Summer School ◽  
Spectral Classification ◽  
University Professors ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Summer Palace ◽  
Summer Schools ◽  
Academic Grades ◽  
Astronomy And Astrophysics ◽  
Thesis Work

Starting on the 10th of June, 1986, the staid and quiet halls and courtyard and corridors, including the giant circular staircase designed by Bernini for the little donkeys that carried Popes to their quarters in the summer palace, echoed to the swift patter of lightfooted students and the buzz of their conversations as 17 young men and 8 young women met at the first Vatican Observatory Summer School in Astronomy and Astrophysics at Castel Gandolfo.These 25 scholars had been chosen from a list of 135 candidates at university and graduate school campuses all over this planet. More than 30 candidates were rejected for “excellence”; they were judged to be too far advanced for admission to the classes on Galaxies and Dark Matter and to those on Spectral Classification and on Instrumentation for Photometry and Image Processing. The classes were aimed at students just beginning or planning immediate entrance into graduate level classes; the School was not planned for “new Ph.D.s,” for “post-docs,” or for those already well into thesis work. Criteria for admission included academic grades, recommendations of university professors, plus personal statements from the candidates on reasons why they felt they wanted to attend the sessions of the school. Applications were studied by faculty and staff members and results were announced in January, giving students some four months to arrange their travel and home commitments so they could be free to respond to the school bells on June 10.

Evaluation of Huntington II Project on Computer Simulation

1975 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 303-311
Author(s):  
E. J. Piel
Keyword(s):  
Computer Simulation ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Computer Simulations ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Positive Shift ◽  
Attitude Inventory ◽  
National Science ◽  
Students Attitudes

This paper reports on the findings of an evaluation of the use of computer simulation packages in secondary schools. It focuses on the results of an attitude inventory of a larger study which was funded by the National Science Foundation. One of the significant findings is the detection of a positive shift in students' attitudes toward computer simulations.

scholarly journals Discussion: the development of this skill in inquiry-based science teaching methodologies / Kształcenie umiejętności prowadzenia dyskusji zgodnie z metodologią nauczania przez odkrywanie

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 53-60
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Szostak ◽  
Ewa Odrowąż
Keyword(s):  
Summer School ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
European Science ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Summer Schools ◽  
Teachers Training

Abstract ESTABLISH - European Science and Technology in Action: Building Links with Industry, School and Home is a four year pan-European project funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). A specific aims of this project is to reinforce the links between school education and external world, so as to raise the level of scientific knowledge of teachers and their students, and increase students’ intrinsic motivation to science and technology. Inquiry-based science education (IBSE) has been selected as the methodology to facilitate this type of teaching and learning. In order to achieve this set aim, it is necessary to prepare the teaching staff to be involved in IBSE. Across Europe teachers and students have begun to adopt the IBSE methodology, facilitated by many projects including ESTABLISH. In Poland, the ESTABLISH teachers training included inter alia, two summer schools during which teachers can deepen the knowledge and understanding of how to apply the IBSE strategy into their own teaching practices. Selected because of their importance in contemporary society life, are the abilities to discuss, to argue and to draw connections. Those skills require the use of specific rules. During the ESTABLISH training, teachers were tasked with creating a list of rules to help them lead a “good discussion” in their classroom. They tried to follow those rules discussing many hot and current topics, for example nuclear energy or use of supplements to lose weight (Chitosan). The advantages and disadvantages of developing this skill (discussion) as part of this teaching method were examined by participants of summer school. At the end of classes teachers shared their experiences of working with proposed method and collectively created a list of discussion topics they thought would be interesting for students that can be implemented in Polish schools. In the presentation, our experiences, remarks and conclusions from working with summer schools' teachers of the ESTABLISH project will be shared.

scholarly journals Final-year pharmacy undergraduate students’ career intention and its influencing factors: a questionnaire study in northwest China

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tianqi Zhang ◽  
Lingui Li ◽  
Ying Bian
Keyword(s):  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Northwest China ◽  
Questionnaire Study ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Career Intentions ◽  
Related Field ◽  
Career Intention ◽  
Medical Institutions

Abstract Background Career intention is closely related to the distribution of university graduates across sectors in pharmacy-related field. The aim of the study was to describe career intention and identify its influencing factors among final-year pharmacy undergraduate students in China. Methods A questionnaire study on demographic characteristics, educational situation, family background, occupational value and career intention was conducted among final-year pharmacy undergraduate students at three universities in northwest China. Exploratory factor analysis was used to identify the constructs of occupational value. Multinominal logistic regression was adopted to analyse the factors influencing career intention. Results Among the 275 student participants, 62.6% intended to work in public medical institutions (rural: 44.4%; urban: 18.2%), 26.5% aimed to work in the pharmaceutical industry, 6.5% wanted to work in other sectors in the pharmacy-related field, and 4.4% planned to work in other fields. Their gender, father’s education level, monthly household income per capita, whose opinions were considered most during job selection, the self-gratification factor of occupational value, and employment guidance had significant impacts on students’ career intentions. Conclusion In the Chinese background, the career intention of more than half of the undergraduate pharmacy students was to work in public medical institutions. The career intentions of the overall participants were mainly determined by their gender, family background as well as psychological self-gratification, and they could also be influenced by employment guidance.

scholarly journals PhD Research Learning in Product Architecture Design

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 549-558
Author(s):  
Olga Sankowski ◽  
Kevin Otto ◽  
Seung Ki Moon ◽  
Dieter Krause
Keyword(s):  
Summer School ◽  
Design Research ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Product Architecture ◽  
Architecture Design ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Individual Participant ◽  
Summer Schools

AbstractThe field of design research has been expanding into a wide diverse range of multidisciplinary topics. It takes substantial time for young researchers to attain a cumulative overview of state of the art on ever more complex methodologies. Teaching doctoral candidates in summer schools is an approach being taken by the design society to support them attaining an immersed understanding of a chosen research field as well as to help them formulate their own line of research. The aim for a new researcher is to form exchanges and collaborations with other researchers. The 'International Summer School on Product Architecture Design - PAD 2018' was such an effort, where 17 international PhD researchers and three international faculties met for a week and explored research in product architecture through hands-on exercises. We surveyed the researchers for effectiveness of the summer school and found that structure and concept of the summer school was effective for providing a background baseline of state of the art. We found there was a significant but less impact on individual participant´s research. We have yet to understand if the creation of collaborations among participants will occur.

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