Clearing the Field: How do Presidential Primary Candidates Win Big on Super Tuesday?

In presidential primaries, Super Tuesday elections play a significant role in winnowing candidate fields and establishing nomination frontrunners. Despite their importance, scholars know little about why and how candidates win or lose the states comprising these events. This study explores which factors help explain candidate performance in Super Tuesday primaries between 2008 and 2016. Using pooled cross-sectional time-series analysis, the results indicate three key drivers of Super Tuesday success: candidate viability, public attention, and media attention. These findings imply that presidential campaigns continue to be complex electoral events beyond the early primary states and suggest that underdog candidates can still win states under the right conditions. Future research should explore the interrelatedness of these three critical factors.

Coaching Dalam Agenda Habituasi Ditinjau Dari Model GROW

Training supported by coaching was convinced as effective method to increase personell or organization performance. Pre service training for civil servant candidate also using coaching as method in habituation agenda, but is not use specific coaching model, coaching is not effective yet to increase civil servant candidate performance in habituation agenda. This study aims to describe coaching in habituation agenda in pre service training related goal, reality, option, and will. This study is literature study research by qualitative approach, using GROW coaching model formulating by Sir John Whitmore. The data were collected using literature study and document. Result of the study found that: coaching in habituation agenda related by goal including understanding goal, setting goal, and result in habituation agenda; reality including define organization issue, setting creative problem solving, deciding solution in actualization plan; option including set activities and step of activities, output, analyzing relations between activities with civil servant basic value, analyzing relations between activities with vision and mission of organization, analyzing relations between activities with strengthening organization value and actualization plan seminar presentation; and will including implementing of actualization, reporting, and actualization seminar presentation. It is neccesarry to coach in habituation agenda for coach and coachee related by goal, reality, option, and will in appropriate quality and skillful coaching.

Evaluation of medical ethics competencies in rheumatology: local experience during national accreditation process

IntroductionRheumatologists are the primary healthcare professionals responsible for patients with rheumatic diseases and should acquire medical ethical competencies, such as the informed consent process (ICP). The objective clinical structured examination is a valuable tool for assessing clinical competencies. We report the performance of 90 rheumatologist trainees participating in a station designed to evaluate the ICP during the 2018 and 2019 national accreditations.MethodsThe station was validated and represented a medical encounter in which the rheumatologist informed a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus with clinically active nephritis about renal biopsy. A trained patient–actor and an evaluator were instructed to assess ICP skills (with a focus on kidney biopsy benefits, how the biopsy is done and potential complications) in obtaining formal informed consent, delivering bad news and overall communication with patients. The evaluator used a tailored checklist and form.ResultsCandidate performance varied with ICP content and was superior for potential benefit information (achieved by 98.9% of the candidates) but significantly reduced for potential complications (37.8%) and biopsy description (42.2%). Only 17.8% of the candidates mentioned the legal perspective of ICP. Death (as a potential complication) was omitted by the majority of the candidates (93.3%); after the patient–actor challenged candidates, only 57.1% of them gave a clear and positive answer. Evaluators frequently rated candidate communications skills as superior (≥80%), but ≥1 negative aspect was identified in 69% of the candidates.ConclusionsEthical competencies are mandatory for professional rheumatologists. It seems necessary to include an ethics competency framework in the curriculum throughout the rheumatology residency.

Human Resource Professionals’ Perceptions of Music Teacher Candidate Performance on Prescreening Interview Instruments

The purpose of this study was to investigate human resources (HR) professionals’ perceptions of music teacher job candidate performance on prescreening interviews in five Midwestern school districts. Specifically, I explored how HR professionals viewed music teacher job candidate performance in relation to specific facets of the interviews as well as to other candidates. The primary data sources were interviews with HR professionals in charge of hiring new teachers. Participants perceived that prescreening interview instruments revealed differences between primary (grades K–6) and secondary (grades 7–12) licensure areas. Music teacher candidates’ responses appeared to mirror those of secondary candidates; they had difficulty exercising empathy and discussing individual student growth, and instead focused on policies and exhibited a program director mindset. Finally, participants exercised agency to personalize prescreening interview instruments depending on licensure type and applicant pool.

Use of video vignettes to assess medical school applicants’ empathetic abilities in Multiple Mini Interviews

Background: This study examined the feasibility of using a Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) station featuring a video-based case to assess empathic abilities of medical school applicants. Methods: The study sample was composed of candidates who participated at admission interviews held in the MMI format at a medical school in South Korea. In this six-station MMI, one station included a 2-minute video clip of a doctor-patient communication situation to assess candidate emphatic abilities, and paper scenarios were used in the other five stations. Acceptability of the use of video-based case in the MMI by candidates was examined by investigating their perceptions of the MMI and the video-based case using a 41-item post-MMI questionnaire. Fairness of the test was assessed by means of differences in candidate perceptions and performance across different demographics or backgrounds. Construct validity was assessed by examining the relationship of candidate scores in the empathy station with those in other stations. The G-coefficient was analyzed to estimate reliability of the test. Results: Eighty-two questionnaires were returned, a 98.8% response rate. Candidates showed overall positive perceptions of the video-based case, which did not differ across demographics or backgrounds. There were no differences in candidates’ perceptions of the patient-doctor relationship presented in the video. Candidate performance in the empathy station was not affected by individual demographics or backgrounds. Nor candidate performance in the empathy station was associated with that of any other stations. The G-coefficient was 0.83, which demonstrated high reliability. Conclusions: The present study illustrates the feasibility of using the video-based case in MMIs to assess candidates’ empathetic abilities.