Higher levels of self-efficacy and readiness for a future career among Spanish-speaking physician assistant students after their volunteer work at a student-run free clinic in the United States

Volunteering at a free clinic may influence career choice among health profession students. The purpose of this study was to explore knowledge, skills, attitudes, self-efficacy, interest in future work with the underserved, and interest in primary care among physician assistant (PA) students through an analysis of demographic characteristics of PA students at a student-run free clinic in the United States. Data were collected from 56 PA students through a quantitative survey in October 2018 after their participation at a student-run free clinic in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the intermountain west region of the USA. Out of the 3 sub-scales (attitudes, effect, and readiness), students responded most positively to items exploring the effect of their experiences of volunteering at the free clinic. Students who spoke Spanish showed higher levels of self-efficacy and readiness for a future career than non-Spanish speakers.

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Mythologizing Memories: A Critique of the Utah Korean War Memorial

The Public Historian ◽

10.1525/tph.2012.34.1.61 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 34 (1) ◽

pp. 61-82 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Suhi Choi

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Korean War ◽

Salt Lake ◽

Salt Lake City ◽

The United States ◽

Fiftieth Anniversary ◽

Collective Memories ◽

The Korean War ◽

Lake City

Abstract Since its fiftieth anniversary, memorialization of the Korean War has taken place in towns and cities across the United States. As a case study of this belated memory boom, this essay looks at the Utah Korean War Memorial, erected by local veterans in 2003 at Memory Grove Park, Salt Lake City. Situated in both the local and national contexts of remembrance, the memorial resonates largely with three mythical scripts, with themes of resilience, local pride, and the good war, all of which have allowed veterans to negotiate tensions between individual and collective memories. This case study reveals in particular how the official commemoration of the war has shifted local veterans' rhetorical positions from potential witnesses of subversive realities of the war to uncritical negotiators whose legitimization of the very process of mythologizing memories has ultimately alienated them from their own experiences during and after the war.

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SOLVENT SNIFFING

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.39.3.451 ◽

1967 ◽

Vol 39 (3) ◽

pp. 451-461

Author(s):

Edward Press ◽

Alan K. Done

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Salt Lake ◽

Salt Lake City ◽

Detailed Comparison ◽

The United States ◽

Toxic Effects ◽

Behavioral Difficulties ◽

Sources Of Information ◽

Volatile Organic ◽

Lake City

THOUSANDS of adolescents and teen-aged youngsters in many cities throughout the United States and other countries are deliberately inhaling vapors of a wide variety of volatile organic solvents in order to induce repeated states of inebriation. Although the practice itself is not new, its occurrence in epidemic proportions in many areas and the passage of legislation prohibiting the act in many cities and states in the United States have brought the problem into nationwide prominence. Some of the solvents used (such as carbon tetrachloride, trichlorethane, benzene, and acetone) have been implicated in previous industrial exposures as the cause of serious toxic effects, including fatalities. The possibility of similar ill effects from these and other solvents when used in much higher concentrations at shorter, but frequently repeated intervals as currently practiced, is one that has been raised repeatedly. Consequently, the Panel on Household and Economic Chemicals of the American Medical Association's Section on Adverse Reactions (Council on Drugs) invited this appraisal of the problem. Included is an assessment of the potential problem from the standpoints of incidence, acute effects, behavioral difficulties, possible chronic or cumulative toxic effects, and possible remedial measures. SOURCES OF INFORMATION This report summarizes the authors' investigations of the problem over the period of the last several years. In addition, it includes a review of published reports, the results of extensive discussions and correspondence with medical and law enforcement personnel in many areas of the United States, Sweden, and elsewhere. Also direct medical and hospital studies of a sample of habitual sniffers by one of us (A.K.D.) in Salt Lake City, Utah, and a detailed comparison of four other similar studies and a personal experiment on simultaneous electroencephalographic tracings and blood level measurements during inhalation by the other (E.P.).

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Addressing the Irish world: Éamon de Valera's ‘Cuban policy’ as a global case study

Irish Historical Studies ◽

10.1017/ihs.2020.4 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 44 (165) ◽

pp. 41-56

Author(s):

Darragh Gannon

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

New York ◽

Salt Lake ◽

Salt Lake City ◽

The United States ◽

Foreign Experience ◽

Irish Republic ◽

Lake City ◽

The Impact

AbstractWriting in Nationalist revolutionaries in Ireland, 1858–1928, Tom Garvin observed that ‘well over 40 per cent, perhaps 50 per cent, had lived outside Ireland for considerable periods … foreign experience was very important in the development of the leaders’. The impact of ‘foreign experience’ on leading nationalist revolutionaries, this article submits, pace Garvin, could have proved influential in the development of the Irish Revolution more widely. Between June 1919 and December 1920, Éamon de Valera toured the United States. From New York City to Salt Lake City, Alabama to Montana, the self-proclaimed president of the Irish republic addressed ‘Ireland’ in hundreds of interviews and speeches. Of these myriad public statements, his Cuban missive, notably, crossed national boundaries. Comparing Ireland's geo-strategic relationship with Great Britain to that of Cuba and the United States, de Valera's argument for an independent Irish republic was made in the Americas. How did de Valera's movement across the U.S. alter his political views of Ireland? How were presentations of de Valera's ‘Cuban policy’ mediated across the ‘Irish world’? How did discourse on the Monroe Doctrine inform Anglo-Irish negotiations between Truce and Treaty? Exploring de Valera's ‘Cuban policy’ as global case study, this article concludes, ultimately, can shift the historiographical significance of ‘foreign experience’ from nationalist revolutionaries in Ireland to the flows and circulation of transnational revolution.

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Our History, 1869–74

First Vision ◽

10.1093/oso/9780199329472.003.0013 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 83-92

Author(s):

Steven C. Harper

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Salt Lake ◽

Salt Lake City ◽

The United States ◽

Presbyterian Church ◽

First Presbyterian Church ◽

Lake City ◽

The Government ◽

Usable Past ◽

Utah Territory

As the transcontinental railroad neared completion in 1869, the Protestant establishment of the United States seemed to be on a collision course with Latter-day Saint hegemony in Utah Territory. In Salt Lake City, Episcopalians consecrated St. Mark’s Cathedral three blocks from the Salt Lake tabernacle less than a month before the dedication of First Presbyterian Church just a block beyond that. The government-backed Protestant establishment seemed to be closing in on the Mormon establishment. In that context church historian Orson Pratt continued to function as the major narrator, repeating again and again the story of Joseph Smith’s first vision in ways that consolidated as a usable past in the context of an embattled present.

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I. A magnetic survey of the fortieth parallel in North America between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Salt Lake, Utah

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London ◽

10.1098/rspl.1879.0001 ◽

1879 ◽

Vol 29 (196-199) ◽

pp. 1-2

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

North America ◽

Atlantic Ocean ◽

Salt Lake ◽

Salt Lake City ◽

The United States ◽

Magnetic Survey ◽

The North ◽

Lake City

This communication contains the results of a series of observations of the three magnetic elements—dip, intensity, and declination—made along the 40th parallel in North America between the Atlantic Ocean and Salt Lake City. Magnetic observations have been made, with more or less assiduity, at different places in the eastern States for many years past; but of the immense tract of country lying between the Mississippi and the Pacific Ocean there is only a single determination of one of the three elements indicated on Sir Edward Sabine’s maps, viz., a determination of declination at Salt Lake City. A series of observations was made some years since by United States’ officers along the Mexican frontier, and a similar series was carried out by the English and American officers employed on the North American Boundary Commission. The present set of observations was made, therefore, along 'the district which lies midway between the line of observations already run along the northern and southern boundaries of the United States' territory.

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Cross-Cultural Comparison of Tamale and Salt Lake City Experience of Unemployed Women With Physical Disabilities

International Journal of Social Work ◽

10.5296/ijsw.v2i2.7834 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 18

Author(s):

Augustina Naami

Keyword(s):

Family Relationships ◽

Salt Lake ◽

Physical Disabilities ◽

Living Arrangement ◽

Salt Lake City ◽

The United States ◽

Daily Lives ◽

Cross Cultural Comparison ◽

Lake City ◽

Women With Physical Disabilities

<p>Gender and disability interacts to create several challenges and vulnerabilities for women with disabilities. This paper explores and compares the daily experiences of unemployed women with physical disabilities in Tamale-Ghana and Salt Lake City, Utah in the United States.</p><p>Face-to-face in-depth interviews were conducted with 15 women with physical disabilities about their experiences with employment, unemployment and how unemployment affects their lives. Outcome suggests that the women encounter several challenges in their daily lives relating to mobility, family relationships, income, social participation and living arrangement. While some of the experiences undoubtedly differ between the two studies, some, interestingly, were similar across the two geographic regions regardless of the cultural differences.</p>

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Cultivation and Implementation of Community-Engaged Pharmacy Services in a Free Clinic to Enhance Care for the Medically Underserved

INNOVATIONS in pharmacy ◽

10.24926/iip.v4i3.301 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Emmeline Tran ◽

Brandon T. Jennings

Keyword(s):

Salt Lake ◽

Insulin Dose ◽

Salt Lake City ◽

Pharmacy Services ◽

Free Clinic ◽

University Of Utah ◽

Glucose Levels ◽

Disease States ◽

Collaborative Practice Agreement ◽

Lake City

Partnerships between community free clinics and academic medical centers improve patient outcomes and enhance learning opportunities for students. A community-academic partnership between the Maliheh Free Clinic and the University of Utah College of Pharmacy was formed to fulfill a community need for pharmacy services, to promote interdisciplinary patient care, and to provide an experiential opportunity for students. The Maliheh Free Clinic based in Salt Lake City, Utah provides free primary health care to uninsured individuals who live 150% below federal poverty guidelines. Three pharmacy services were developed and implemented. These include: 1) clinic chart reviews which involve written recommendations following a comprehensive assessment of the patient's chart examining his or her disease states and the appropriateness of his or her medications; 2) medication reconciliations and discussion of pharmacy-related recommendations with patients during Diabetes Day, an inclusive interdisciplinary patient appointment that addresses important aspects of diabetes care; and 3) an insulin dose adjustment service through a collaborative practice agreement with the clinic to monitor a patient's blood glucose levels and adjust his or her medications accordingly on a weekly basis. Type: Student Project

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CFS Prediction of Winter Persistent Inversions in the Intermountain Region

Weather and Forecasting ◽

10.1175/2010waf2222419.1 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 25 (4) ◽

pp. 1211-1218 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Robert R. Gillies ◽

Shih-Yu Wang ◽

Jin-Ho Yoon ◽

Scott Weaver

Keyword(s):

Salt Lake ◽

Salt Lake City ◽

Intraseasonal Oscillation ◽

Weather Forecast ◽

The United States ◽

Intermountain West ◽

Medium Range Weather Forecast ◽

Forecast Models ◽

Lake City ◽

Intermountain Region

Abstract A recent study by Gillies and others of persistent inversion events in the Intermountain West of the United States found a substantive linkage between the intraseasonal oscillation (ISO) and the development of persistent inversion events. Given that NCEP’s Climate Forecast System (CFS) has demonstrated skill in the prediction of the ISO as far out as 1 month, it was decided to examine the CFS forecast’s capability in the prediction of such winter persistent inversions. After initial analysis, a simple regression scheme is proposed that is coupled to the CFS output of geopotential height as a way to predict the occurrence of persistent inversion events for Salt Lake City, Utah. Analysis of the CFS hindcasts through the period 1981–2008 indicates that the regression coupled with the CFS can predict persistent inversion events with lead times of up to 4 weeks. The adoption of this coupled regression–CFS prediction may improve the forecasting of persistent inversion events in the Intermountain West, which is currently restricted to the more limited time span (∼10 days) of medium-range weather forecast models.

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Current Barriers and Future Drivers

E-Commerce in Regional Small to Medium Enterprises ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-123-0.ch012 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 355-380

Author(s):

Robert MacGregor ◽

Lejla Vrazalic

Keyword(s):

Salt Lake ◽

Salt Lake City ◽

Regional Area ◽

The Usa ◽

Per Capita ◽

Internet Penetration ◽

Lake City ◽

Developed Nations

The key aim of the study presented in this book is to determine how SMEs located in regional areas are going about e-commerce adoption. The study was undertaken over a period of three years in three highly developed nations all belonging to the OECD and with comparable per capita GDPs and levels of Internet penetration. These included Sweden, Australia, and the USA. In each country, one regional area was surveyed—Varmland (Sweden), Illawarra (Australia), and Salt Lake City (USA).

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