scholarly journals The Perspectives of Medical Students in China to Undergo Short-Term Training Abroad

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 203
Author(s):  
Yu-zhuang Huang ◽  
Xin Cheng ◽  
Beate Brand-Saberi ◽  
Xuesong Yang
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Guangdong Province ◽  
Optimal Timing ◽  
Academic Experience ◽  
Exchange Students ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Exchange Programs ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Chinese Medical Students

Jinan University in Guangdong province has several years experience of sending medical students abroad for short-term training, based on the schools’ agreement with international universities. Currently, we analyze the problems and experience including the medical students’ favorite countries, timing, purposes, academic marks, and expenses etc., which came forth from medical students of Jinan University who had participated in the short-term training in the past several years. Our survey suggests that the choices of Chinese medical students about the host universities vary,  although the universities in Western countries are still the most popular. The optimal timing the students prefer for short-term training abroad is during vacation especially after grade 2. Broadening the horizons, learning the different knowledge and increasing their academic experience are the major objectives for most exchange students. Furthermore, the survey shows that students hope to improve exchange students’ status management and credit acknowledgement system among interschool administrations. This study could supply useful information for the upcoming exchange students for Chinese medical universities/schools and meanwhile, for the host universities receiving Chinese medical students in the world. Hence, both universities and medical students will benefit for more efficiently implementing the exchange programs in the future. 

Man and Nature in China

1967 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 313-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhoads Murphey
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
New Order ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
Individual Actions ◽  
Communist Past ◽  
Chinese View

After nearly two decades of revolutionary rule in China, the break with the past which Communist direction has seemed to represent is increasingly being seen in a wider perspective. Few scholars would attempt to argue that the Communists have not brought a genuine revolution or that their ascendancy is merely the equivalent of a new dynasty. But as the character of the new order has become clearer with time and as an analysis both more detailed and less concerned with short-term matters has become possible, many scholars have been as much impressed by continuities with the pre-Communist past as by discontinuities. To take perhaps the clearest example, the current Chinese view of their relation to the rest of the world appears to represent little change from the traditional Sinocentric image. Ideological absolutism is also not new to China with Mao Tse-tung, nor is the conception of individual subsevience to public good, the unquestioned rightness of close social limits on individual actions. And contemporary China retains, for all its professed egalitarianism, a strongly elitist and hierarchial pattern.

Pressing problems of the euro zone — And beyond (OR: What may break the camel’s back)

2012 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-434
Author(s):  
Jan Winiecki
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Union ◽  
Present Writer ◽  
Large Majority ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Large Measure ◽  
Euro Zone ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Simple Question

A look at the Western debate about West’s problems reveals what the present writer regards in a large measure as an irritating superficiality. Nowhere is it better visible than in the mainstream discussions about the euro zone and its problems, where most debaters glide over the fundamentals of Europe’s long-term problems and concentrate on the superficial and short-term issues. The discussions on how to “save” the euro zone strangely forget the defects in its creation, glide over the lessons to be drawn from policies pursued during the past decade, and defend the virtue of maintaining its present membership. But the problems of Europe run much deeper than the survival or collapse of the monetary union. Even if we assume that the problems of confidence the member states have in each other’s behaviour are restored and the rest of the world regains confidence in the institutions of the monetary union, the fundamental problems will remain unsolved. A clue to the real long-term problems may be found in the answer to a rather simple question. It runs as follows: “Why is the large majority of European countries indebted to such an extent that any further increase in debt to GDP ratio generates panic reactions among potential lenders?”

Medical Students in Appalachia: A Training Program in Community Medicine

1966 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Tapp ◽  
Hugh Fulmer ◽  
Kurt Deuschle
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Premature Death ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Developmental Potential ◽  
Emerging Nations ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Disease Pattern ◽  
Malaria Eradication

Health traditionally has been highly valued in many cultures, but it is only in the past century that science and technology have made possible the dramatic modification of the developmental potential of nations as well as individuals. That sickness and premature death are a major deterrent to the progress of a society has repeatedly been confirmed, most strikingly in the emerging nations. In such countries, alteration of a particular disease pattern by application of scientific knowledge has had immediate measurable effects upon the society as a whole. A prime example is the malaria eradication program, which has changed the productivity of large areas of the world.

scholarly journals Efficiency vs. Resilience: Lessons from COVID-19

2021 ◽  
pp. 285-289
Author(s):  
Moshe Y. Vardi
Keyword(s):  
High Likelihood ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The Past ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The World ◽  
Economic Goal

AbstractWhy was the world not ready for COVID-19, in spite of many warnings over the past 20 years of the high likelihood of a global pandemic? This chapter argues that the economic goal of efficiency, focused on short-term optimization, has distracted us from resilience, which is focused on long-term optimization. Computing also seems to have generally emphasized efficiency at the expense of resilience. But computing has discovered that resilience is enabled by redundancy and distributivity. These principles should be adopted by society in the “after-COVID” era.

scholarly journals The Dwindling Glaciers of the Upper Rakaia Valley, Canterbury, New Zealand

1951 ◽  
Vol 1 (9) ◽  
pp. 504-507
Author(s):  
Maxwell Gage
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Southern Alps ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The West ◽  
Climatic Fluctuations ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World

AbstractThese glaciers are in a district that was seldom visited before the great expansion of recreational tramping and mountaineering in New Zealand during the past twenty years, but the record extends back for eighty-five years. During this time the chief glaciers have receded considerably but irregularly, and for one of them the records indicate a vertical downwasting and thinning. Although this glacier shows no sign yet of recovery it is fed from the same snowfield as that which supplies another glacier descending west from the main divide and which may have begun to advance. An appreciable re-advance of the Franz Josef Glacier has already been given notice in the, Journal of Glaciology, and it may be that the steep gradients of the west-flowing glaciers of the Southern Alps enable them to respond to short-term climatic fluctuations, whereas the flatter east-flowing streams continue to shrink, in keeping with the world-wide trend.

scholarly journals THE REPRESENTATION OF SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS OF RAMS IN WEB OF SCIENCE: EVALUATION OF CURRENT INDICATORS AND PROSPECTS OF THEIR INCREASING

2012 ◽  
Vol 67 (9) ◽  
pp. 59-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. I. Starodubov ◽  
S. L. Kuznetsov ◽  
N. G. Kurakova ◽  
L. A. Tsvetkova
Keyword(s):  
Web Of Science ◽  
Bibliometric Indicators ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
The Past ◽  
Global Science ◽  
The World ◽  
Presidential Decree ◽  
Number Of Publications

The contribution scientific publications of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (RAMS) in the national publication stream, indexed by Web of Science over the past thirty years, was estimated. The indicators of publication activity that are necessary for the institutions of RAMS to achieve in short-term period the conformity with bibliometric indicators, established by Presidential Decree of May 7, 2012 (to increase the share of Russian publications in Web of Science to 2.44% in 2015) were calculated. It is shown that the current structure of global science, where publications in medicine make up for approximately one third of scientific publications in the world, set for RAMS scientists particularly difficult task: to double in three years the number of publications in Web of Sci. In the article are proposed the priorities and the necessary steps to fulfill this task. 

A Survey of Attitudes to Traditional Chinese Medicine Among Chinese Medical Students

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (02) ◽  
pp. 269-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kam-Lun Ellis Hon ◽  
Ting-Fan Leung ◽  
Hio-Meng Tse ◽  
Lai-Na Lam ◽  
Kwok-Cheong Tam ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Side Effects ◽  
Traditional Chinese Medicine ◽  
Respiratory Infections ◽  
Over The Counter ◽  
The Past ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Chinese Medical Students

We studied the attitudes and personal experiences with traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) use in Chinese medical students. Medical students at the Chinese University of Hong Kong were asked 13 questions according to an anonymous survey. Six hundred and eleven of 780 medical students (47% males, 52% females) returned the questionnaire; 199 (33%) of the participants used TCM at least once in the past year, and 85% had ever tried various TCM. The attitude was positive in 41%, neutral in 52% and negative in only 6%. The majority (70%) reported no change in attitudes towards TCM after studying Western medicine (WM). Of the 199 participants who had used TCM in the past year, upper respiratory infections were the most common circumstance leading to TCM usage, with 31% immediately using TCM without any TCM practitioner consultation. The most common modality of TCM used by 85% of participants was herbal decoction, and nearly one-quarter had used over-the-counter Chinese medicine. Although 78% reported they knew of the TCM practitioner or treatment from family members or friends, 14% stated they randomly selected the practitioner. "Effectiveness of TCM," "fewer side effects than WM," "illness not completely treated by WM" and "recommendation from family/friends" were common beliefs held by participants for TCM usage. Forty-five percent reported that they had not been told of any side effects of TCM. Pre-clinical students had more positive attitudes towards TCM and consulted TCM practitioners more often in the past 12 months (OR 9.1, CI 3.16–28.18; p <0.001) compared to students in clinical years, who tended to become more negative towards TCM after studying WM. TCM usage is common among medical students in Hong Kong. It is important to note that nearly half of the students were not aware of any possible side effects from TCM. Students appear to become more negative towards TCM after studying WM.

scholarly journals NGO-isation and the Plight of Women in Developing Nations

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Chu
Keyword(s):  
Nutritional Supplements ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Global Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
Pays En Développement ◽  
The World ◽  
Pays En Developpement ◽  
Job Prospects

Over the past century, NGOs have been rapidly growing in numbers have become increasingly involved in such health crises as HIV/Aids and Ebola around the world. Many organizations have also been founded to recognize and support oppressed groups in certain countries, one of the most important of these being women. It is undeniable that women of developing nations have been greatly affected by the rise of NGOs, and the ensuing phenomenon of NGO-isation, from increased opportunities for activism, to unsustainable dependencies on nutritional supplements,. This article presents a background of both NGOs and the plight of women in developing nations, as well as attempting to draw a relationship between these two stakeholders in our global society. This article also presents evidence to support the hypotheses that NGOs allow women to become more politically and socially active through government-neutral involvement, but also hinder their health and job prospects by failing to employ local workers and using short-term solutions instead of sustainable ones. Major analysis is conducted on these topics and attempts to determine the correlation between NGOs and their involvement with women in impoverished communities. The article concludes with final comments from the author about their overall experience and thoughts on the issue.Au cours du précédent siècle, les ONG sont rapidement augmentés en nombre et en implication dans plusieurs pays en développement en conséquence de plusieurs crises de santé telles que VIH / SIDA et Ebola. Plusieurs organisations ont aussi été créés pour donner reconnaissance à certaines groupes dans des pays oppressifs, un des plus importants parmi ces groupes étant les femmes. Il est indéniable que les femmes des pays en développement ont été aidés considérablement par la montée des ONG et le phénomène qui s'ensuit d'ONG-isation. Cet article présente un contexte d'à la fois les ONG et la situation des femmes dans les pays en développement et décrit une proposition de recherche pour tenter de déterminer la relation entre ces deux très importantes parties intéressées dans notre société globale. Cette proposition de recherche décrit ses objectives, buts et hypothèses qui concernent divers aspects de la vie d'une femme et ensuite ça décrit pourquoi ceci est un problème important et comment les données vont être obtenues. L'article conclut avec des commentaires finales de l'auteur à propos de leur expérience générale et leurs pensées concernant le problème. 

scholarly journals Global Competence of Medical Students: An Assessment Scale and Preliminary Investigation in China

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yue Shi ◽  
Huakang Du ◽  
Yunying Feng ◽  
Yihan Cao ◽  
Haiyang Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
Assessment Scale ◽  
Global Competence ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Exchange Programs ◽  
Chinese Medical Students ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Work Abroad

Abstract Background: The importance of global competence has been acknowledged in medical care as well as medical education. However, the existing definition of global competence and the survey tools used to assess global competence are not fully applicable to medical students. This study developed and validated a questionnaire assessing the global competence of medical students and preliminarily explored the underlying factors influencing the global competence of Chinese medical students in eight-year programs . Methods: A questionnaire (Global Competence Assessment Scale for Medical Students, MS-GCAS) was developed following a systematic process , and a cross-sectional multicent er survey was conducted among 10 medical schools in China. A total of 1062 completed questionnaires were analysed . Results: The analysis revealed a four-factor scale consistent with the proposed structure according to the definition of global compet ence . The validity estimates of the four subscales were mostly satisfactory. School education, duration of overseas exchange programs and willingness to work abroad were found to have significant correlation s with global competence .Conclusions: The MS-GCAS is valid and reliable for the assessment of the global competence of medical students in China. Medical schools should take further steps to promote medical students’ global competence .

scholarly journals The Dwindling Glaciers of the Upper Rakaia Valley, Canterbury, New Zealand

1951 ◽  
Vol 1 (09) ◽  
pp. 504-507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxwell Gage
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Southern Alps ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The West ◽  
Climatic Fluctuations ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World

AbstractThese glaciers are in a district that was seldom visited before the great expansion of recreational tramping and mountaineering in New Zealand during the past twenty years, but the record extends back for eighty-five years. During this time the chief glaciers have receded considerably but irregularly, and for one of them the records indicate a vertical downwasting and thinning. Although this glacier shows no sign yet of recovery it is fed from the same snowfield as that which supplies another glacier descending west from the main divide and which may have begun to advance. An appreciable re-advance of the Franz Josef Glacier has already been given notice in the,Journal of Glaciology, and it may be that the steep gradients of the west-flowing glaciers of the Southern Alps enable them to respond to short-term climatic fluctuations, whereas the flatter east-flowing streams continue to shrink, in keeping with the world-wide trend.

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