scholarly journals Promoting collaboration between health science disciplines at the university of Alberta, Canada

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 358-363
Author(s):  
Genevieve Gray
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Interdisciplinary Education ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
National Leader ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
The University

Interdisciplinary education, research and practice, improves health care, scholarly productivity, professionals career opportunities and patients/clients and health professionals satisfaction with care and work, respectively. However, it can engender disinterest, suspicion and antagonism if it is not adequately resources. Adequate resourcing requires both highly visible commitment from the key leaders in universities and health services and separate, realistic budgets to support initiatives. In addition, and to ensure that the specialist contribution of all health disciplines to human well-being is fostered the practice, research and education of specialist disciplines must also be adequately supported. This is what the Health Sciences Council at the University of Alberta since its inception - tried to do. That it has been successful is reflected in its recognition as national leader in interdisciplinarity in health education and research in Canada.

Dental Informatics: A Work in Progress

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.K. Schleyer
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Research Capacity ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Dental Informatics ◽  
Research Challenges ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
Research Recommendations

Dental informatics is a young scientific discipline that is undergoing continual maturation. Its literature is estimated to consist of approximately 600 papers published between 1975 and 2003, and it is currently growing at a rate of about 50 papers annually. While interest in the discipline is growing, the number of core contributors to dental informatics research remains relatively small. Two major questions for the discipline are: What are the research challenges that dental informatics faces today? and How can the discipline be strengthened and positioned to maximize its success in addressing those challenges? Progress toward research challenges formulated more than ten years ago has been varied. While many new technologies have become available for clinical dental practice, research, and education, many fundamental problems remain to be addressed with informatics research. Recommendations to augment the research capacity in dental informatics include creating a stronger worldwide dental informatics research community, drawing more biomedical informatics researchers to dental research areas, providing career opportunities for dental informatics researchers, addressing grand challenges together as a community, and recruiting subsequent generations of dental informaticians.

scholarly journals Our Way of Life: Importance of Indigenous Culture and Tradition to Physical Activity Practices

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keren Tang ◽  
Community Wellness Program ◽  
Cynthia G. Jardine
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Wellness Program ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Physically Active ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
Community Wellness ◽  
The University

<p>To challenge the current negative and disease-oriented view in the Western health science paradigm, researchers from the University of Alberta collaborated with the Yellowknives Dene First Nation’s Community Wellness Program in a participatory action research project that took a wellness- and strengths-based approach to explore physical activity. We worked with youth to develop participatory videos about physical activity, which sparked community conversations on health promotion, community wellness, and ways to encourage more people to engage in physical activity. Findings revealed a multifaceted meaning of physical activity, supported by the theme of cultural identity. Participants highlighted aspects of culture, tradition, participation, and the land in defining physical activity. Being active was not only about soccer and running, but also playing traditional games, checking the fishnet, scraping the hide, being out on the land, and participating in the community. In other words, to be physically active was to be culturally active and to actively contribute in the community. Ultimately, through collaboration and dialogue, we generated different meanings of physical activity grounded in wellness, and we reinforced and provided further understanding of the cultural element of this health science terminology in an Indigenous context.</p>

EPA Guidance on Conflicts of Interest

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S2) ◽  
pp. 2201-2201 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Hoschl ◽  
L. Fialova
Keyword(s):  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Research Administration ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Financial Interests ◽  
Principles And Standards ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
Commercial Organizations

Conflict of interest (COI) is a set of circumstances that creates a risk that professional judgments or actions regarding a primary interest will be unduly influenced and compromised by a secondary interest. It might arise in clinical practice, research, and education, and might include individuals and institutions.Primary interests include the pursuit of well-being of patients, ensuring the independence of medical education, and protecting the objectivity and integrity of medical research.Secondary interests might involve financial interests, pursuit of recognition and professional career advancement. COI might result from the multiple roles of physicians in patient care, research, administration, provision of expert opinion and policy advice, and consultancy to commercial organizations. The purpose of the COI policy is to protect the interests of the patients, strengthen the integrity of the profession, and preserve public trust in medicine and psychiatry. The aim of the guidance is to eventually prevent these conflicts from arising rather than remediate them ex post. It is desirable to identify factors that might lead to their occurrence, offer a framework for their recognition and assessment, introduce the principles and standards of their disclosure, and provide recommendations for their transparent resolution.

scholarly journals 4of7: Elastic diary of the research by design

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-243
Author(s):  
Đorđe Stojanović ◽  
Milutin Cerović
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
Spatial Environment ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
Architectural Research ◽  
The University

This paper will present a specific Research by Design setting at the University of Belgrade conducted by 4of7, the initiative which simultaneously encompasses the aspects of architectural practice, research and education. In the opening paragraphs 4of7 agenda will be discussed against three overlapping areas of the study: understanding and applying computational logic within the design process, the use of the prototypical models, and the investigation of the material processes. In the further body of the text, a sequence of experiments will be documented to demonstrate an ongoing architectural research, probing into the design workflow which employs elastic material performance to achieve highly versatile spatial organization and develop a non-geometric understanding of spatial environment. The study will explore the connection between two theoretical models, initially identified as the Field and the Network and material based studies in architectural design. An abbreviated version of this text was presented at eCAADe conference "Computation and Performance" at TU Delft, September 2013.

European Psychiatric Association guidance on the conflicts of interest

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Höschl ◽  
L. Fialová
Keyword(s):  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Research Administration ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Financial Interests ◽  
Principles And Standards ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
Commercial Organizations

AbstractConflict of interest (COI) is a set of circumstances that creates a risk that professional judgments or actions regarding a primary interest will be unduly influenced and compromised by a secondary interest. It might arise in clinical practice, research, and education, and might include individuals and institutions. Primary interests include the pursuit of well-being of patients, ensuring the independence of medical education, and protecting the objectivity and integrity of medical research. Secondary interests might involve financial interests, pursuit of recognition and professional career advancement. COI might result from the multiple roles of physicians in patient care, research, administration, provision of expert opinion and policy advice, and consultancy to commercial organizations. The purpose of the COI policy is to protect the interests of the patients, strengthen the integrity of the profession, and preserve public trust in medicine and psychiatry. The aim of the guidance is to eventually prevent these conflicts from arising rather than remediate them ex post. It is desirable to identify factors that might lead to their occurrence, offer a framework for their recognition and assessment, introduce the principles and standards of their disclosure, and provide recommendations for their transparent resolution.

scholarly journals Perspectives on play research: the practice-theory-research entanglement

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Russell ◽  
Stuart Lester ◽  
Hilary Smith
Keyword(s):  
Practice Research ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Practice Experience ◽  
Children’S Play ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Adult Roles ◽  
Theory Research ◽  
The University

This introductory chapter explores the entanglements of theory research and practice. Research questions and methods delimit what can be known, highlighting how knowledge production is a political and ethical endeavour. Drawing on conversations with contributors and on the collective experiences of students, graduates and staff on the University of Gloucestershire postgraduate programme in children’s play, the chapter considers how both the transdisciplinary nature of the programme and the considerable practice experience and knowledge of the contributors open up new possibilities for research and for what can be known about children’s play and adult roles in supporting it. The chapter also presents a brief summary of each study presented in the book.

scholarly journals Burnout Syndrome Amongst Medicine Students in Lithuania and Germany

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-19
Author(s):  
Ieva Rudinskaitė ◽  
Eglė Mačiūtė ◽  
Giedrė Gudžiūnaitė ◽  
Greta Gerulaitytė
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Mental Stress ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Burnout Syndrome ◽  
Professional Efficacy ◽  
General Weakness ◽  
Vilnius University ◽  
The University

Background. The research provides comparative analysis of the burnout syndrome among medical students in Lithuania and Germany and determines relations between burnout and lifestyle, health complaints and seeking for psychological help.Materials and methods. The research was conducted in April 2019 using an anonymous self-administered e-based questionnaire. The sample size was 261 medical students (age mean 20,5 ± 1,8, 46 males, 215 females): 131 from Vilnius University (VU), 67 from Lithuanian University of Health Science (LSMU) and 63 from Heidelberg University (HU), Germany. The 15 items MBI-SS scale was used to identify burnout syndrome among students (Cronbach α =0,74). Emotional exhaustion (>14), cynicism (>6), and professional efficacy (<23) scores were calculated for academic burnout. The participants were also asked additional questions related to lifestyle and well-being. Descriptive statistics were analysed using MS Office Excel, SPSS and R Commander, results were statistically significant when p<0,05.Results. 51 (38,9%) VU, 25 (37,3%) LSMU and 10 (15,9%) HU students were ascertained as burnt-out (p=0,004). 76 (90,6%) respondents complained of feeling study induced mental stress (p=0,0002). Furthermore, 67 (77,9%) respondents indicated having a bad mood (p=0,043), 54 (62,7%) general weakness (p=0,024), 44 (51,1%) digestive problems (p=0,003). Sleep duration was strongly associated with burnout (p=0,002) with over half (n=51, 59,3%) of the burnout respondents sleeping <7 hours a day. 87 (33,3%) students considered consulting a psychologist, but only 24 (9,2%) reached out for help.Conclusions. More than 1/3 of medical students in the research group had signs of burnout. The highest prevalence of burnout was among VU and lowest among HU students. Burnt-out respondents complained of mental stress, weakness, bad mood, digestive problems. The university studies and the duration of sleep can impact the occurrence of burnout syndrome. Only every forth student, willing to consult a psychologist, sought assistance.

Interactive Computer-Video Modules for Health Sciences Education

1989 ◽  
Vol 28 (04) ◽  
pp. 360-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. McArthur ◽  
J. Bolles ◽  
J. Fine ◽  
P. Kidd ◽  
M. Bessis
Keyword(s):  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Computer Control ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Knowledge Structures ◽  
Image Recording ◽  
Central Computer ◽  
Key Word ◽  
The University ◽  
Development Group ◽  
Basic Medical

Abstract:Advances in electronic image recording and computer technologyhave resulted in a remarkable increase in the power and flexibility of interactive computer-video teaching systems. The University of Washington Health Science Videodisc Development Group first demonstrated a laser videodisc controlled by a remote central computer in 1980. Even this rudimentary unit highlighted basic medical informatics principles including: rapid accessibility; a “generic” or multi-purposed format; ease of computer control; and large collections of valid, rigorously reviewed images. Advances in medical informatics have led to the development of the following previously undescribed series of teaching units:1. The hypertext programs Hypercard, Linkway, and Guide have been used with videodiscs to develop easy-to-use instructional and reference materials. These materials demonstrate the ease with which a computer-naive instructor may develop new programs and the advantage that the intuitive nature of these programs brings to student users.2. Patient simulations using single and double screens plus pre-defined knowledge structures;3. Interactive single topic tutorials using preset knowledge structures;4. A key-word-based disc searching system;5. Electronic video microscopy;6. A series of programs developed independently by health science faculty who have purchased multi-purpose videodiscs that demonstrate the flexibility of the multi-purpose or “generic”: collection concept.

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