Advanced Academic Training Research Articles

Evaluation of Rheumatologists' Teledermatology Practices and Perspectives.

In their regular practice, rheumatologists often come across patients with skin and nail abnormalities, so they need dermatology consultations. A new option available today is the use of telemedicine for dermatology consultations. The aim of this study is to assess how frequently rheumatologists use this method, known as teledermatology (TD), and to investigate their perspectives. This study is a survey of rheumatologists in Türkiye. The survey, generated with Google Docs, was e-mailed to rheumatologists who are members of the Turkish Rheumatology Association and asked them to complete it. A total of 122 rheumatologists completed the survey, with 85 women (70%) and 37 men (30%). The rheumatologists claimed that they encounter a mean of 6.60 (SD: 6.90) patients with skin/ nail lesions each week in their clinical practice and consult them for face-to-face (FTF) dermatology examinations for a mean of 12.3 (SD: 15.56) patients every month. Of the rheumatologists who took part in the trial, 38.5% said they experienced the TD approach. Most of them (n: 30, 62.5%) use TD “occasionally.” A significant proportion of rheumatologists stated that they used TD to consult with dermatologists in their personal networks (54.2%), dermatologists at the hospital where they work (47.2%), or dermatologists with advanced academic training in their field (45.8%). Most rheumatologists (60.8%) reported that, following TD, they only refer their patients to FTF examinations if the dermatologist requests it (e.g., for a biopsy). Some of the rheumatologists (37.5%) stated that TD would be effective in all skin lesions, but most rheumatologists (52.1%) stated TD would be more beneficial for special skin/nail lesions like infectious skin lesions or inflammatory dermatoses. This study showed that a considerable number of rheumatologists use TD. Most rheumatologists schedule TD consults with dermatologists to gain speed for diagnosis and due to a lack of appointment availability from dermatologists. In rheumatology practice, clinicians have noted that they found TD effective for a wide range of skin/nail lesions.

Тенденції розвитку форм підвищення кваліфікації педагогічних кадрів в Україні

Тенденції розвитку форм підвищення кваліфікації педагогічних кадрів в Україні

Diagnosis, Prescription, Intervention, Evaluation, Advanced Academic Training, and College Student Success

The Personal Background Preparation Survey (PBPS) identifies students at risk for academic nonadvancement. Uniquely, the PBPS produces individualized reports making evidence-based risk-specific recommendations prescribing interventions targeting students’ empirically identified risk indicators. At a large southwestern health sciences community college, after baseline PBPS administration among 409 diverse first-semester-fall 2010 students, fall 2011 PBPS administration helped target PBPS-individualized interventions among 618 first-semester-fall 2011 students. Group-oriented Advanced Academic Training (AAT) workshops augmented PBPS-targeted individualized interventions among 1,183 additional first-semester students during fall 2012 and fall 2013. AAT participants practiced a daily self-testing retrieval regimen to reduce PBPS-identified cognitive processing, information-, and time-management risk indicators. Controlling PBPS risk level, underrepresented minority status, and gender as covariates, first-semester student nonadvancement rate decreased from baseline’s 42.3% and PBPS-individualized interventions’ 41.4% to 16.2% and 11.6% postAAT ( p < .001), respectively. AAT was designed to reduce primarily higher risk student nonadvancement; yet, retention gains did not differ significantly across risk levels, underrepresented minority students status, and gender.

Business and the Making of American Econometrics, 1910–1940

From 1910–1940, the practice of business and the practice of economics came to inform one another in novel ways, a reconfiguration that included the emergence of econometrics. The core locus for this intersection came from the rise of commercial forecasting—whether analyses of future demand, price and cost fluctuations, or financial markets—based on the analysis of statistical data. Forecasting united a suite of specific interactions with the practice of economics: business support for the construction of specific economic data (making possible new forms of econometric analysis); the creation of a new social role: the economist/business expert with advanced academic training (who engaged in both practices and used each to serve the other); and the consequent development of new knowledge (especially in demand analysis and financial economics).

Courses in reproductive and child health in India: An overview

Defining the human resource needs for providing quality maternal, newborn, and child health services across such a large and diverse population country like India is truly challenging. The effective response to significant challenges and increased requirements of evidence-based effectiveness of the public health projects on maternal and child health is putting pressure on existing program managers to acquire new advanced academic training and information. The data regarding the existing courses on reproductive and child health and related fields in the country were obtained by a predefined search made on the Internet through the Google search engine in December 2011. The collected data were the name and location of the institution offering the respective course, theme, course duration, course structure, eligibility criteria, and mode of learning. In India, around 15 institutes are offering certificate/postgraduate diploma courses on maternal and child health either as a regular program or through distance education program. The admission procedure for each institute is independent of others. The courses vary in terms of duration, eligibility criteria, and fee structure. Conceptualizing an educational initiative in response to national demands for increased workforce capacity to eliminate key medical and nonmedical educational barriers and financial and nonfinancial barriers to advanced academic preparation would enhance the quality of services available in the region.

The Necessity for Developing Skill at Mind-Process Observation, and a Suggested Methodology

Abstract Ever since introspectionism was abandoned early in this century, the scientific community has shown little interest in training people to observe the functioning of their own minds with greater than ordinary clarity. Thus, despite advanced academic training and much knowledge about physical phenomena and processes, few consciousness theorists or experimentalists have any special expertise at closely observing mental artifacts and processes. Without observational clarity about the mental, how is that web of physical/mental correlations going to be mapped?

Ahead of the game—masonry dam design in the British colonies 1800–1900, part 1: 1800–1872

British dam practice in the nineteenth century was dominated by the use of earth embankments with puddle clay cores. Theoretical approaches to masonry dam design developed in France in the mid-nineteenth century, therefore had little immediate impact on British practice (although they were commented on by Rankine). However, British engineers working overseas often benefited from advanced academic training, at the military colleges, the East India Company's seminary, Addiscombe, and later the Cooper's Hill College, and made more widespread use of masonry structures. Differing geological conditions, geography and cost all played their part, but the overall impression is one of innovation that at times astounded the UK engineering establishment. This paper chronicles the work of the pioneers of colonial dam design in the context of the history of masonry dams. Part one describes developments owing to the discovery of the ‘rational method’.

A Nutrition Odyssey: Knowledge Discovery, Translation, and Outreach 2006 Ryley-Jeffs Memorial Lecture

The 21st-century model of health research is founded on a broad base of multidisciplinary research that is expeditiously and effectively translated into evidence-based practice, education, policy, and advocacy. The key objective is to improve the health of populations. DIETITIANS' ROLES: Dietitians, whether they are working in clinical or public health nutrition or food science, have a vital role to play in this paradigm of health research. As dietitians' roles have evolved beyond the traditional ones into subspecialties including epidemiology, nutrigenomics, functional foods, nutraceuticals, toxicology, natural health products, and multidisciplinary research, the need for advanced training in subspecialty fields has become essential. A dietetics background is an excellent foundation upon which to develop a research career in one of these new areas of nutrition. Opportunities for personnel awards and research funding targeted at nutrition clinician-scientists and other nutrition subspecialists have grown tremendously in recent years. The information in this paper is intended to inspire dietitians seeking advanced academic training in one of the new exciting avenues for a career in nutrition. These avenues will permit dietitians to contribute to knowledge discovery, translation, and outreach to improve the nutritional status and health of populations in Canada and globally.

Review Essay: The Scholar Practitioner Gap and the Dilemma of Expertise and Democracy

Despite major efforts, the gap between scholars and practitioners in the fields of nonprofit and voluntary action research remains unbridged. A recent volume by New York University cultural historian Thomas Bender suggests that the problem is due less to the peculiarities of these fields than it is to the institutional configuration of American intellectual life. Changes in occupational structures since the 1 970s that have led people with advanced academic training to seek careers in community-based nonprofit organizations may constitute a basis for reconstructing American public culture.

College Environmental Influences on Students' Educational Aspirations

dence pertaining to the outcomes of higher education, Bowen [12] concludes that educational attainment is positively associated with a range of important individual and societal benefits (e.g., cognitive learning, economic productivity, public service). Similar conclusions have been drawn by Blau and Duncan [11]. Not surprisingly, then, the factors influencing educational attainment, or educational aspirations, have been the focus of a rather large body of research. The majority of this research has focused on the educational aspirations of secondary school students [e.g., 13, 20, 22, 24, 27, 31]. Somewhat less attention has been paid to identifying the factors influencing the educational aspirations of college students. Within the second area of inquiry, the major focus has been on identifying those structural and environmental characteristics of colleges and universities that foster students' aspirations to seek advanced academic training. The earliest investigations by Thistlethwaite [28, 29] of high-ability students suggested a number of different college environmental dimensions (e.g., curricular flexibility, informality and warmth of student-faculty contact, challenging courses) that were associated with aspirations to obtain doctoral degrees. Reanalysis of this data by Astin [2, 3], however, indicated the possibility that a considerable number of these associations were coincidences from uncontrolled differences in students' input characteristics. Several additional studies [5, 4, 30] based largely on samples of talented undergraduate students have, in fact, suggested differential institutional influences on student

Current Conceptions of the Special Purposes of the Junior College

Many who take thought for the first time of the function of the junior college are inclined to look upon this new unit in the school system solely as a sort of isthmus connecting the mainland of elementary and secondary education with the peninsula of professional and advanced academic training. A canvass of the special purposes of this recent addition to our educational institutions shows, on the other hand, that many of its friends expect much more of it than that it shall be a mere neck of land between two