The current status and future prospects of precision medicine

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (9) ◽  
pp. 1423-1425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria D. Pasic
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Precision Medicine ◽  
Laboratory Medicine ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Graduate Course ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Genomic Technologies ◽  
The University

AbstractOver the last 5 years I have been coordinating a graduate course on genomic technologies and their applications in medicine. The course is offered to graduate students in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto. In attending the diverse lectures, I came to better understand the burgeoning field of “personalized” or “precision” medicine (PM) and its current status and future prospects. Below, I provide my personal views on this topic.

scholarly journals Measuring the Connection Between Mathematics and Engineering

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sasha Gollish ◽  
Bryan Karneyc
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Method ◽  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
Mathematical Knowledge ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Point Scale ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The University

Mathematics forms the foundation for all the engineering disciplines. Students have trouble transferring this mathematical knowledge from their mathematics classes to the rest of their undergraduate engineering classes. This study is borne out of a desire to ‘be better,' to endeavour always to try to improve, but first, you need to know where one the starting point. The authors are also passionate about mathematics as it relates to engineering. Anecdotally the authors had heard that both students and faculty were disappointed and aggravated with the current status of mathematics teaching in undergraduate engineering. With no known study in Canada looking at how mathematics connects with engineering the authors went down the path to find out how strong the connection between mathematics and undergraduate engineering is at the University of Toronto.Through a mixed-method survey, the goal was to measure respondents’ (i.e. The teaching staff) views on the importance of and students’ competence of both mathematical topics and specific mathematic skills. A survey was administered in the 2017 fall semester to all of those who teach in the Faculty of Applied Science at the University of Toronto. The first part of the survey used a 5-point scale, the second part of the survey had open-ended questions.The responses to the 5-point scale questions demonstrate that the selected mathematic topics and specific skills were all seen as important and that the students’ competence was lower than their rated importance. The open ended-questions asked for respondents definitions and views as they related

scholarly journals Teaching Critical Reflection to Graduate Students

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavan Peter Longley Watson ◽  
Natasha Kenny
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Graduate Course ◽  
Applied Learning ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Life Long Learning ◽  
The University

Critical reflection is a highly valued and widely applied learning approach in higher education. There are many benefits associated with engaging in critical reflection, and it is often integrated into the design of graduate-level courses on university teaching, as a life-long learning strategy to help ensure that learners build their capacity as critical reflective teaching practitioners. Despite its broad application and learning benefits, students often find the process of engaging in critical reflection inherently challenging. This paper explores the challenge associated with incorporating critical reflection into a graduate course on University Teaching at the University of Guelph. Strategies for effectively incorporating critical reflection are presented, based largely on Arsonson’s (2011) framework for teaching critical reflection and the outcomes of a workshop offered at the 2013 STLHE Conference. The strategies discussed have multi-disciplinary relevance, and can be broadly applied to improve how critical reflection is incorporated into post-secondary courses.

scholarly journals A GRADUATE COURSE IN FIRE PROTECTIVE DESIGN AND BUILDING CODES AN INDUSTRY AND UNIVERSITY COLLABORATION

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Frye ◽  
P. Zurkan
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Building Codes ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Graduate Course ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
Course Content ◽  
International Graduate ◽  
Seminar Series ◽  
The University ◽  
In Fire

Since the fall of 2013, the Faculty of Engineering has offered a graduate course in Fire Protective Design and Building Codes based on Part 3 of the National Building Code of Canada. The course is made available to graduate students in architecture and to all branches of engineering. It is also offered to off campus practicing architects and engineers who wish to either take the course for credit or who would like to audit the course.Introduction of this course into the graduate studies program at the University of Manitoba was the direct result of collaboration between the university Centre for Engineering Professional Practice and Engineering Education and industry. Industry financial support for the course instructors was provided by the Winnipeg Construction Association and the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Manitoba. (Engineers Geoscientists Manitoba).This paper provides an overview of the course objectives, the course content and the expected and realized outcomes. The course proved to be very popular, with course registration averaging between fourteen and eighteen graduate students each year. It was highly rated by the year end student course evaluations. It was particularly popular with international graduate students, many who came from countries where exposure to fire protective design and building codes was limited or non-existent. As a spin off from the course, in 2015, the Winnipeg Construction Association began offering a workshop/seminar series of five half day courses. These workshop/seminars have been oversubscribed and are attended by a very diverse group of construction practitioners that includes architects, engineers, building officials and contractors.

scholarly journals Investigation and Reform Measures of the Current Situation of Cultivating the Innovative Ability of HVAC

2021 ◽  
pp. 282-285
Author(s):  
Jing Lv ◽  
◽  
Jia-Hao Huang ◽  
Lei Feng
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Actual Situation ◽  
Graduate Course ◽  
Teaching Mode ◽  
Experimental Teaching ◽  
Cultivation Mode ◽  
The University

This article conducted a questionnaire survey on HVAC graduate students in the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, analyzed the problems existing in the cultivation of innovative ability of them and combined with the actual situation of HVAC major postgraduates, it was proposed that the cultivation mode of hierarchically classifying and teaching students according to their aptitudes for students with different professional abilities and development directions. It is proposed some reform measures such as the reform of the graduate course system and teaching mode, strengthen the cultivation of post-graduates ability to discover and solve problems, implement joint schools-enterprises training and strengthen experimental teaching, which promote the cultivation of HVAC graduate students' innovative ability.

scholarly journals ENGINEERS TEACHING ENGINEERING COMMUNICATION: INTEGRATING DISCIPLINARY EXPERTISE INTO THE ENGINEERING COMMUNICATION CURRICULUM

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Denbeigh ◽  
Ali Vahit Esensoy ◽  
Penny Kinnear ◽  
Jason Li ◽  
Wilson Ma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Engineering Communication ◽  
Communication Program ◽  
Disciplinary Expertise ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Capstone Design Courses ◽  
Analysis Of Narratives

The Engineering Communication Program at the University of Toronto has recently begun using engineering graduate students as Communication Instructors (CIs) in the Mechanical Engineering portfolio courses and our work in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering capstone design courses. The move was an attempt to bridge the discipline chasm between communication and disciplinary expertise; this paper begins to document the impact of this interdisciplinarity. Through an analysis of narratives of CI experiences using Engeström’s model of activity theory, we narrowed our focus to an exploration of the changing rules and division of labour that occurred over the duration of the courses. We found that while students and CIs bring different understandings of rules and division of labour to the work, these elements can be changed—and that affect plays a key role in the changes.

scholarly journals Undergraduate Specialist Program in Pathobiology at the University of Toronto

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 237428951774759
Author(s):  
Douglas M. Templeton ◽  
Avrum I. Gotlieb
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Student Outcomes ◽  
Clinical Biochemistry ◽  
Laboratory Medicine ◽  
Undergraduate Program ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Medical Microbiology ◽  
Undergraduate Science ◽  
New Recruits ◽  
The University

Following a merger of the Departments of Pathology, Clinical Biochemistry, and part of Medical Microbiology, our faculty agreed to deliver a new, unique undergraduate program “Specialist in Pathobiology” at the University of Toronto, in order to teach current concepts of mechanisms of disease to students selected from the large undergraduate science population. The emphasis was on molecular and cellular aspects of pathogenesis and not on the clinical practice of laboratory medicine and pathology. Based on the then new Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, we drew upon our large faculty and new recruits in both basic and clinical science to deliver a new curriculum that is unique and dynamic. We began admitting students in 2000, and we have now graduated our 15th class. In this study, we describe our philosophy and goals for the program, and report its success based on student outcomes and innovative course offerings.

scholarly journals Improving access to digital historical census boundaries in Canada

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Allen ◽  
Amber Leahey
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Data ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Data Conversion ◽  
Historical Gis ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Data Formats ◽  
Statistics Canada ◽  
The University ◽  
Data Library

Historical census boundary datasets are invaluable resources for mapping and analyzing demographics over space and time. In Canada, finding and using historical census boundary data can be a little difficult. Statistics Canada makes tabular census data available online for the 2011, 2006, 2001, and 1996 Censuses, with some summary profile tables available back to 1991. For boundary files however, fewer censuses are accessible, with only 2011, 2006, and 2001 available online. Today, access to the older collections is typically mediated by Statistics Canada, or academic libraries who have access through the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) program. Given that the data from these earlier years are not readily available online publically, it prevents researchers from easily accessing and using them. In addition, for some of the older censuses, the digital spatial data are stored in archaic data formats which present challenges for use in modern Geographic Information Systems (GIS).In the fall of 2015, Scholars Portal and the University of Toronto Map and Data Library embarked on a project to bring together the dispersed collection of digital census geography datasets and make them available online so they can be easily accessed by researchers, students, and the general public. This project makes data and documentation available openly through the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) Scholars GeoPortal platform (http://geo.scholarsportal.info). In making the collection available online openly and all in one place, these datasets will be shared and reused more effectively, thus reducing barriers and duplication for researchers everywhere.This paper outlines the current status of census boundary datasets in Canada and then details our work which includes collecting known datasets from a variety of sources, data conversion, composing a comprehensive set of metadata, and providing online access to the collection. We also compiled an extensive inventory of all known boundaries produced in order to keep track of the collection as well as assess any gaps to help plan future digitization projects. We hope that this work is utilized and shared with others so that more attention is given to this important historical GIS collection.

scholarly journals An online course in multicultural materials for LIS graduate students at the University of South Florida

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda B. Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Information Science ◽  
South Florida ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Graduate Course ◽  
Adults And Children ◽  
The University

The author discusses the content included in an online course on “Multicultural Materials for Young Adults and Children.” This graduate course (LIS 5937) for Library and information Science students at the University of South Florida, is a very popular offering for those who plan to work with youth in libraries. The class teaches students how to respond to the reading needs of our diverse patron base by understanding aspects of their values and customs as well as their ways of interacting.

“Genealogy” of plant physiology research in Canada and the founding of the Canadian Society of Plant PhysiologistsThis paper is one of a selection published in a Special Issue comprising papers presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Plant Physiologists (CSPP) held at the University of Ottawa, Ontario, in June 2008.

Botany ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 87 (7) ◽  
pp. 685-690
Author(s):  
Constance Nozzolillo
Keyword(s):  
Plant Physiology ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Canadian Society ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Mcgill University ◽  
The University

Two men were leaders in the development of plant physiology research in Canada: Professor G.W. Scarth at McGill University and Professor G.H. Duff at the University of Toronto. The latter was the driving force behind the formation of the CSPP in 1958. The contributions of these two men and their graduate students to plant physiology research in Canada are briefly summarized.

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