Resources

Chapter 14 contains many of the resources that virtual coaches can use to facilitate coachee progression through the VECTOR phases. The VECTOR Process Guide breaks down each of the six VECTOR phases and offers coaches a summary of key components, a skeleton agenda, potential strategic questions, and sample activities. A coach can pull up the appropriate guide before their virtual meeting and feel confident knowing that they can lead their coachee toward professional learning success. Additionally, this chapter includes sample coaching logs and a blank template, as well as an administrator report sample and template to further support coach implementation of VECTOR virtual coaching. Throughout the book, the authors referred to the VECTOR Process Guide, coaching logs, and the administrator reports. This chapter describes these three coaching resources in-depth. They also offer examples as well as blank templates for readers to use in their own coaching practice. These templates can also be downloaded at http://vectorvirtualcoaching.org.

Meeting technologies and recordkeeping: a preliminary study

Purpose The purpose of this study is to raise awareness of the benefits and drawbacks involved in using digital technologies for business meetings, and identify key concerns. The shift from in-person to virtual meetings has multiple consequences, some of which impact recordkeeping. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on research from records management, anthropology, organizational theory and computer science, this study establishes the norms of physical meeting spaces and recordkeeping and explores how these norms are challenged as meetings become virtual. Findings Virtual meetings allow for collaboration to work across time and space and offer multiple affordances that do not exist in on-site meetings; however, they also involve the additional barrier of technical access and reduction in user attention. Virtual meetings also enable the creation, capture and sharing of increased contextual data, and this increased documentation challenges traditional recordkeeping models. Meeting technologies are also worryingly invasive. This study shows that concerns over privacy have been dismissed in the design of virtual meeting spaces, and therefore the authors recommend their more thorough consideration. Originality/value Meetings are a pervasive feature of organizational life whose significance has been overlooked in the recordkeeping literature. By bringing together research about in-person and virtual meetings in a novel and necessary way, the authors started to fill a gap and hope to inspire further studies.

Clinical and Radiological Factors Affecting Thoracolumbar Fractures Outcome: WFNS Spine Committee Recommendations

To obtain a list of recommendations about clinical and radiological factors affecting outcome in thoraco-lumbar fractures with the aim of helping spine surgeons in daily practice. A systematic literature search in PubMed and Google Scholar database was done from 2010 to 2020 on the topic “thoracolumbar fracture AND radiology AND surgical outcomes” and “thoracolumbar fracture AND radiology AND surgical outcomes.” A total of 58 papers were analyzed and WFNS (World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies) Spine Committee organized 2 consensus meetings to formulate the specific recommendations the first in Peshawar in December 2019 and in a subsequent virtual meeting in June 2020 to reach an agreement. Both meetings utilized the Delphi method to analyze preliminary literature review statements based on the current evidence levels to generate recommendations through a comprehensive voting session. Eight statements were presented and reached the consensus about this topic. A variety of clinical factors is known to influence outcome of patients with thoracolumbar fractures. Some of these are well-known established factors such as blood pressure augmentation and patient age, while some are not well studied. Overall, the quality of evidence is low and we need more randomized controlled studies to validate our results. Similarly, radiological factors that can predict outcome are well stated and there is a high accordance worldwide. In reverse, still under debate is the application to choose which surgical treatment is advisable based on them.

Celebrating one year anniversary of Contemporary Pediatric Dentistry and introducing the new Congress

Hi Dear Friends and Colleagues, I am pleased to inform you some of good news regarding the development and process of the Contemporary Pediatric Dentistry (CPD). Since its establishment, CPD has received 80 submissions from all over world within sixteen months, and published 25 articles including review, original research and case reports. CPD has also moved to be indexed in reputed databases. Another achievement was establishment of 1st International Congress of Contemporary Pediatric Dentistry (ICCPD), organized by the CPD, which was taken place on 1- 3 November 2021 as a fully virtual meeting to celebrate the first anniversary of the launch of CPD. The ICCPD hosted 257 registered colleagues from 47 countries. The website of the ICCPD had been viewed more than 5000 visitors from 102 countries in only 2 months. As an exciting action, CPD is now getting ready to initiate the 2nd International Congress of Contemporary Pediatric Dentistry (www.iccpd.org). I feel confident that the ICCPD 2022 will serve as a place of learning where we can all share the latest knowledge and learn the contemporary view, approaches, techniques and treatment options from highly eminent clinicians and/or academicians from different countries. The theme of the ICCPD 2022 is “Contemporary Clinical Techniques in Pediatric Dentistry”. The 2nd ICCPD will also host oral and poster presentation. All abstracts will be published in the Supplementary Issue of Contemporary Pediatric Dentistry. It is my honor to invite all colleagues, who have sincere enthusiasm to help children to let them have better oral health, quality of life, smiling and development, to attend 2nd International Congress of Contemporary Pediatric Dentistry to be held on 2-4 September 2022 as a fully virtual meeting. Please follow website and social media accounts of CPD to get latest information regarding Congress and the Journal.

Vitamin D: Dosing, levels, form, and route of administration: Does one approach fit all?

The 4th International Conference on Controversies in Vitamin D was held as a virtual meeting in September, 2020, gathering together leading international scientific and medical experts in vitamin D. Since vitamin D has a crucial role in skeletal and extra-skeletal systems, the aim of the Conference was to discuss improved management of vitamin D dosing, therapeutic levels and form or route of administration in the general population and in different clinical conditions. A tailored approach, based on the specific mechanisms underlying vitamin D deficiency in different diseases that were discussed, was recommended. Specifically, in comparison to healthy populations, higher levels of vitamin D and greater amounts of vitamin D were deemed necessary in osteoporosis, diabetes mellitus, obesity (particularly after bariatric surgery), and in those treated with glucocorticoids. Emerging and still open issues were related to target vitamin D levels and the role of vitamin D supplementation in COVID-19 since low vitamin D may predispose to SARS-CoV-2 infection and to worse COVID-19 outcomes. Finally, whereas oral daily cholecalciferol appears to be the preferred choice for vitamin D supplementation in the general population, and in most clinical conditions, active vitamin D analogs may be indicated in patients with hypoparathyroidism and severe kidney and liver insufficiency. Parenteral vitamin D administration could be helpful in malabsorption syndromes or in states of vitamin D resistance.Specific guidelines for desired levels of vitamin D should be tailored to the different conditions affecting vitamin D metabolism with the goal to define disease-specific normative values.

Peningkatan Pengetahuan Studi Etnomedisin Pada Mahasiswa Farmasi

The topic of research on the exploration of natural materials is still a favorite among pharmacy students. This is also supported by the biodiversity in Indonesia which is spread across the region. Students need more insight and description of research topics related to natural product products, one of which is ethnomedicine studies. Based on this background, it is necessary to provide education related to ethnomedicine studies from experts to increase students' knowledge about the topic of exploring medicinal herbs and plants from ethnic groups in Indonesia. Education is carried out using lecture and discussion methods in webinars using virtual meeting applications with pretest and posttest. The webinar was attended by 239 participants, with the majority being pharmacy students from several Indonesian pharmacy universities. From the results of the pretest, it is known that the average knowledge of participants about ethnomedicine is 53.89. After the expert's explanation, the participants' knowledge increased with the average post-test score of 71.21. Participants' knowledge of the ethnomedicine study increased after being given education.

ABCD debate at the annual ABCD virtual meeting 18 December 2020

Speakers: For the Motion: Dr Stephen Wheatcroft, Consultant Cardiologist and Professor of Cardiometabolic Medicine, University of Leeds, West Yorkshire Against the Motion: Professor John Wilding. Department of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Institute of Life Course and Medical Sciences, Clinical Sciences Centre, Aintree University Hospital, Liverpool

The influence of organizational commitment on the perceived effectiveness of virtual meetings by filipino professionals during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A structural equation modeling approach

BACKGROUND: Virtual meetings have been widely utilized during the COVID-19 pandemic. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to explore the influence of organizational commitment on the perceived effectiveness of virtual meeting by Filipino professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: A total of 513 Filipino professionals answered an online questionnaire which covered four latent variables: organizational commitment to virtual meetings, attitude toward virtual meetings, perceived effectiveness of virtual meeting as collaboration tool, and perceived effectiveness of virtual meeting as a social tool. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was utilized to analyze the causal relationships between the latent variables construct. RESULTS: SEM showed that organizational commitment to virtual meeting during the COVID-19 pandemic influenced the positive attitude of the employees which subsequently led to the perceived effectiveness of virtual meeting as a collaboration and social tool. CONCLUSIONS: This study is the first study that analyzed the influence of organizational commitment on the perceived effectiveness of virtual meeting during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines. Our SEM construct can be applied and extended further, particularly in analyzing factors influencing the perceived effectiveness of virtual meeting during the COVID-19 pandemic.