Fellow Of College Research Articles

Análisis de la evolución del examen general de egreso de licenciatura en Química

The aim of this work is to diffuse the EGEL® in Chemistry (Undergraduate General Examination) in many IES (Higher Education Institutions) in the country as a standardized test which seeks to identify the knowledge and essential skills to which undergraduate possess to embark on their professional careers: B.S. in Chemistry, B.S. in Industrial Chemistry, and B.S. in Food Chemistry. This paper updates to the university fellowship who apply this test about the New Generation Scheme in EGEL exam adopted by CENEVAL® (National Higher Education Assessment Center) since 2010 and the recently creation of the Excellence Performance Award by CENEVAL and SEP (Public Education Ministry) in 2011.

A Nationwide Assessment of the Scope and Impact of Agricultural Leadership Education

Agricultural leadership education is an important component of agricultural education programs across the country; yet, a national study of the scope and types of programs offered has not been conducted since 2003. The purpose of the current study was to provide national and timely data regarding the scope and type of opportunities offered in agricultural leadership education. Of the 56 responding institutions, 41 indicated offering agricultural leadership education opportunities. The types of opportunities offered include leadership majors, minors, options, foci, industry programs, graduate student programs, undergraduate programs, and leadership courses. Leadership courses and minors were identified as the two agricultural leadership education opportunities with the highest student enrollment, serving an estimated 7,904 and 1,581 students respectively. Leadership minors were also found to serve the highest proportion of students outside of colleges of agriculture. Responding faculty members in agricultural leadership education perceived the continued growth of leadership opportunities within their institution. Additionally, the majority of responding faculty identified moderate to substantial support for their agricultural leadership education endeavors from their home department, university colleagues, and the agriculture industry.

62 years of gastrointestinal research: 1951-2013.

In 1951, I began a 2-year postdoctoral research fellowship under Dr Simon Komarov at Temple University. Later, as a staff gastroenterologist at the Orange County General Hospital in California, I was interested in the possible role of blood flow alterations in peptic ulcer disease. We adapted Silvio Baez's just described in vivo microscopy technique to study blood flow in the gastric microcirculation in the anesthetized cat. In 1969, I joined the Gastroenterology Service at the West Los Angeles Veterans Administration (VA), primarily because of the presence there of Dr Morton Grossman, one of the leading researchers in gastrointestinal physiology. The most important lesson I learned from Dr Grossman was the importance of openness--investigators sharing their ideas, thoughts, and findings. Dr Harold Wayland, Professor, California Institute of Technology, helped me in setting up my laboratory at the VA and arranged with his friend Dr Masaharu Tsuchiya, Chair of Gastroenterology at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, for a collaborative effort with fellows from Keio coming for 2-year fellowships with us (under my grant). Harold introduced us to the fluorescein-labeled albumen technique for the study of microvascular permeability. Later, Dr Jonathon Kaunitz, a colleague at the VA, and Kotaro Kaneko, my Keio University fellow, succeeded in modifying this technique to measure pHi in surface gastric cells in vivo. When I retired in 1993, Dr Kaunitz took charge of my laboratory. He and his associate Dr Akiba have completed extensive studies comparing and contrasting how stomach and duodenal surface cells defend themselves against acid loads. In the course of this work, they have become deeply involved in cell signaling and intracellular pathways when nutrients enter the duodenum. They have developed a technique for using confocal microscopy in vivo in this work. Dr Grossman was right: when investigators share their ideas, everyone benefits and science advances.

A pathologist hitchhiker's guide to informatics

The contemporary practice of pathology is heavily reliant upon information systems. These systems are becoming increasingly sophisticated and College Fellows are frequently required to have input on their design, selection, implementation and evaluation. Laboratories are adopting decision support technologies to support workflow management and clinical interpretation of pathology tests. The computationally intensive field of bioinformatics is growing rapidly especially in genomics laboratories while statistics, another informatics discipline, has always been an important part of Fellowship training. College Fellows have a professional duty of care, and also carry ethical and medico-legal responsibility, for the efficacy, reliability, safety and security of such systems. Significantly, the development of Health Informatics also proceeds apace in the wider medical community. Data mining tools, social media and decision support are expected to improve health resource utilisation, evidence-based practice, and clinical effectiveness. These tools will also become widely deployed as patients and health consumers have more control over health service delivery and expect an improved experience in their contact with the health system. The contemporary practice of pathology is heavily reliant upon information systems. These systems are becoming increasingly sophisticated and College Fellows are frequently required to have input on their design, selection, implementation and evaluation. Laboratories are adopting decision support technologies to support workflow management and clinical interpretation of pathology tests. The computationally intensive field of bioinformatics is growing rapidly especially in genomics laboratories while statistics, another informatics discipline, has always been an important part of Fellowship training. College Fellows have a professional duty of care, and also carry ethical and medico-legal responsibility, for the efficacy, reliability, safety and security of such systems. Significantly, the development of Health Informatics also proceeds apace in the wider medical community. Data mining tools, social media and decision support are expected to improve health resource utilisation, evidence-based practice, and clinical effectiveness. These tools will also become widely deployed as patients and health consumers have more control over health service delivery and expect an improved experience in their contact with the health system.

In tribute: Janet H. Carr.

Janet H. Carr, DipPhty, MA, MEd, EdD, Fellow of the Australian College of Physiotherapists, died on November 4, 2014. Editorial Board Member Chris Maher, who informed me of her death, stated that “she was an absolute giant in the physiotherapy field in Australia and influenced many generations of physiotherapists. With her collaborator, Roberta Shepherd, she was probably the first Australian physiotherapist to systematically apply science to practice.” James Gordon, the 45th Mary McMillan lecturer and a student at Columbia Teachers College with Carr, said that Janet “was an extraordinary physiotherapist who, along with Roberta [Shepherd], advanced the practice of neurological rehabilitation. She had vision that the science of motor control and motor learning could be translated to better ways to …

鈴木榮太郎「社会学の研究分野などについて病床雑筆（第2 部）」

Here I introduce a hitherto unpublished manuscript by Eitaro SUZUKI（1894-1966）entitled “Essay on Sociological Studies, Part 2”. Written in 1950, while Prof. SUZUKI was convalescing in the University of Hokkaido Hospital, it consists of two parts. Part 1 deals with his general conceptions of sociology. Here I present only Part 2, which describes his early career as a rural sociologist and is of more immediate interest to our association. Keisuke SUZUKI（1933-2011）, Eitaro's son, preserved a voluminous collection of his father's research and personal materials. These include manuscripts, diaries, notes, letters, and photos, most of which were discovered after his death. They are owned by the UESAKI family and currently managed by Robert Ricketts, a professor at Wako University, Tokyo and former colleague of Keisuke SUZUKI. Since 2013, pending a final decision on the disposition of these documents, I have been given preliminary permission by the UESAKI family and Prof. Ricketts to edit these materials.

Hooked on Soils: A Day in the Life of Ed Landa

Hooked on Soils: A Day in the Life of Ed Landa

The Politics and Policy of Ebola

It was a dark and stormy night in mid October in Boone, North Carolina. I was late for a gumbo dinner that my co-editor was hosting at his house in honor of a visit to the area by Barbara Walthall, the managing editor for PS. Wind gusts exceeding 50 mph were forecast, and rain was coming down in sheets. I wasn’t quite sure the mountainside wouldn’t wash down on me before I got to Phillip’s house. “Too bad for Barbara,” I thought, “she missed the fall colors by just one day.” A radio program on the Ebola crisis in western Africa distracted my attention. The reporter was profi ling a health-care worker who wanted to volunteer for service in the area, but her application had been delayed for weeks while she was shuttled back and forth between government and nongovernmental organizations, her application was processed and reprocessed, and even after she was approved, she was told that she could not be deployed for at least a month. The thrust of the story was clear: the listener was supposed to be outraged that bureaucratic incompetence and delay would only exacerbate what had already become the most severe international public health crisis in memory. Instead, my editorial antenna kicked in, and it struck me that political scientists might react very diff erently to this health-care worker’s tale of woe. Recruiting, training, and deploying personnel to a rapidly changing crisis zone with severe infrastructure challenges and located thousands of miles away is a highly sophisticated dance. Yet completing this task in only four weeks struck me as quite impressive. I wondered if my colleagues would agree with me. That evening, I pitched the idea of a “Spotlight” on Ebola to Phillip, Barbara, and Celina, our editorial assistant. We agreed on a possible timeline, and I agreed to try to identify some potential contributors. The eff ort began the next day, and one of the names that I kept encountering was Ruxandra Paul, a recent PhD and a college fellow at Harvard University who works on issues of markets and international migration. Ruxandra graciously agreed to pen an essay quickly. Fast forward a few days after the eff ort had begun. A missive from Ken Sherrill, emeritus professor at Hunter College was sent to Steven Rathgeb Smith, the executive director of APSA, with the requisite long list of additional receipient addresses. Citing his own coauthored article on political science and AIDS written 22 years ago with Robert Bailey and Carolyn Somerville (1992) (we are academics after all!), Professor Sherrill asked:

A “terribly inefficient” production: Unsettling methodologies with children through Deleuzian notions of time

After Rhedding Jones' Deleuzian approach to writing and her dedication to rethinking methodologies through affirming complexity and multiplicity, this paper explores what it might mean for researchers in the field of early childhood to work in ways that unsettle our taken-for- granted notions of time. The author brings forth examples from her own research enactments with young children which were deemed "terribly inefficient" by her university colleagues, which were judged through what Deleuze would call the artificial metrics of equal and substitutable exchange. In exploring how research practices might resist these metrics of generality in favor of the production and synthesis of multiple times, possibilities about what research might become are posited.

Book Reviews

Steven Horwitz of St. Lawrence University reviews “F. A. Hayek and the Modern Economy: Economic Organization and Activity”, by Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Ten papers, resulting from the ""Hayek and the Modern World" conference held at the University of Richmond in April 2013, explore the role of human agency in Friedrich Hayek's thought and consider his writings as they relate to economic organization and activity, particularly to assess what role he assigns to leaders in determining economic progress. Papers discuss Hayek's unsentimental liberalism (Peter McNamara); Hayek and the ""individualists" (Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy); the evolution, evaluation, and reform of social morality--a Hayekian analysis (Gerald Gaus); Hayek and the conditions of freedom (Kenneth Minogue); Hayek and the early foundations of spontaneous order (Emily Skarbek); Hayek and the nomothetes (Christopher S. Martin); the control of engagement order--Clement Attlee's road to serfdom? (Ekkehard A. Köhler and Stefan Koler); Hayekian perspectives on Canada's economic and social reforms of the 1990s (Jason Clemens and Niels Veldhuis); the conjoint quest for a liberal positive program--""Old Chicago," Freiburg, and Hayek (Andrew Farrant and Nicola Tynan); and Hayek and Václav Klaus's life (Klaus). Peart is Dean of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond. Levy is Professor of Economics at George Mason University and Distinguished Fellow of the History of Economics Society.”

On Visual Technology, Media Archives, and Anthropological Curiosity: An Interview with Alan Macfarlane, Life Fellow of King's College, University of Cambridge

On Visual Technology, Media Archives, and Anthropological Curiosity: An Interview with Alan Macfarlane, Life Fellow of King's College, University of Cambridge

Amy DeJong & Maya Warren

“It’s a lot harder than it looks,” says Amy DeJong about the reality TV program “ The Amazing Race.” DeJong and fellow University of Wisconsin, Madison, food science graduate student Maya Warren competed in the race earlier this year. The show, now in its 25th season, pits 11 two-member teams against each other as they follow clues and confront a series of challenges that take place across the globe. The winning team gets $1 million. The show is airing episodes from DeJong and Warren’s race now. As of C&EN press time, the team had weathered the first three sets of challenges, which included finding a treasure chest in the U.S. Virgin Islands, stepping through the drills of British palace guards in England, and herding sheep in Scotland. A longtime fan of the show, Warren instigated the food science duo’s participation in the race. She got her bachelor’s degree in chemistry ...

Public health specialist workforce training.

Uk PUblic HealtH SPecialiSt Workforce trainingthe adage that 'public health is everybody's business' can both be a help and a hindrance in developing the public health workforce. as everybody's business, teaching and development can be tucked into other people's business, for example, in medical student curricula or primary care. In the uK, the General Medical Council (GMC),1 the professional medical regulation authority, recommends that all medical students should be able to 'apply to medical practice the principles, method and knowledge of population health and the improvement of health and healthcare', going on to list 11 relevant areas of study. While this provides wide exposure, it does not, however, take away from the need for depth in specialist knowledge. across the world, attitudes to the importance of public health in medical training vary, as does support for its inclusion in the curriculum. It is common, however, among teachers for medical students to prefer the cut and thrust of genomic advances and individual patient care, seen to have more prestige and glamour, to that of the more complex problems of improving population health and reducing health inequalities. this prejudice is reinforced across medical systems, for instance, in research funding. But why does this matter? In the uK, the traditional route to specialist practice is through an adapted medical education model of specialist training, that is, that those wanting to practice public health as specialists first have general undergraduate training before specializing. this specialist public health model is adapted to be multidisciplinary - and specialists come from a wide variety of backgrounds to enter a common scheme of training which provides structured competency-based training over a period of years. While equivalent Specialist status is granted by the Faculty of Public Health (FPH),2 the public health arm of the professional system based on royal colleges, registration remains divided between those who are and who are not medically qualified - a source of continuing debate.tHe PUblic HealtH Workforce in aSiaSuch debate does not apply to the uS style-based training in which Schools of Public Health play a key role, and the association of Schools of Public Health3 set curriculum standards and define practice, with the Masters of Public Health playing a more prominent role.In asia, the systems are mixed and becoming more so. asia faces massive social, demographic and economic changes as countries transition to more affluent and urbanised societies. Infectious disease is no longer the primary burden as problems associated with increasing obesity rates, tobacco smoking and loneliness in old age continue to grow. Poorer communities in asia are those most likely to be affected by climate change, and pollution and environmental sustainability pose urgent population health challenges.to be fit for purpose, the public health workforce needs to be appropriately trained and supported. But are the models of training, particularly of specialists, appropriate? Workforce shortages, especially in rural areas, call for new ways of thinking and working.the uK model of clinically based training has left its legacy in asia, but former colonies have not necessarily moved away from the clinical model and followed the same trajectory of multidisciplinary change. For instance, in Hong Kong, the HK College of Community Medicine, the FPH equivalent, does not follow the FPH lead and bestow specialist status on fellows who are not doctors. at the same time, the universities have not only expanded their Masters in Public Health programmes but introduced Bachelors programmes and extended the option of general education courses.4So who is a specialist - the College fellows or the university trained Masters/ PhD students? and why is this important? the rationale for expanding the range of training in Hong Kong was based on the increasingly obvious analysis that not only were health needs growing but that health services needed to become more public health aware and focus on prevention rather than provision of care. …

Toward a Pragmatist Epistemology: Arthur O. Lovejoy's and H. S. Jennings's Biophilosophical Responses to Neovitalism, 1909-1914.

The sustained interdisciplinary debate about neovitalism between two Johns Hopkins University colleagues, philosopher Arthur O. Lovejoy and experimental geneticist H. S. Jennings, in the period 1911-1914, was the basis for their theoretical reconceptualization of scientific knowledge as contingent and necessarily incomplete in its account of nature. Their response to Hans Driesch's neovitalist concept of entelechy, and his challenge to the continuity between biology and the inorganic sciences, resulted in a historically significant articulation of genetics and philosophy. This study traces the debate's shift of problem-focus away from neovitalism's threat to the unity of science - "organic autonomy," as Lovejoy put it - and toward the potential for development of a nonmechanististic, nonrationalist theory of scientific knowledge. The result was a new pragmatist epistemology, based on Lovejoy's and Jennings's critiques of the inadequacy of pragmatism's account of scientific knowledge. The first intellectual move, drawing on naturalism and pragmatism, was based on a reinterpretation of science as organized experience. The second, sparked by Henri Bergson's theory of creative evolution, and drawing together elements of Dewey's and James's pragmatisms, produced a new account of the contingency and necessary incompleteness of scientific knowledge. Prompted by the neovitalists' mix of a priori concepts and, in Driesch's case, and adherence to empiricism, Lovejoy's and Jennings's developing pragmatist epistemologies of science explored the interrelation between rationalism and empiricism.

Teaching Atlas.ti™ in South Africa: Reflections on Doctoral Preparedness

Teaching qualitative data analysis using computer software such as Atlas.ti™ to masters and doctoral students as well as university colleagues has presented a number of challenges together with moments of inspiration. The researcher has offered some brief reflective considerations, which have been conceptually located in postgraduate research and doctoral preparedness. Given the low number of PhD students who graduate in South Africa (SA), many scholars have inquired into the lack of progress of postgraduate research. Qualitative research, and in particular qualitative data analysis has not enjoyed structured support at universities, let alone computer assisted qualitative analysis support. Little is written in the qualitative data analysis literature about the impact and value of using Atlas.ti™ in postgraduate work, particularly in the South African context. Therefore this reflective paper hopes to make some inroads into this field of study.

What I Learned from 35 Years of Mistakes

There is no success without errors. Three keys to success are to learn from your errors, to learn from successful people, and to have mentors or role models whose advice and counsel you may follow to minimize errors. It takes more than knowledge and skill to develop a successful Cooperative Extension program. Programs need to be research-based, part of a team effort, and may involve using research and extension programs conducted and developed by others.The best advice given to me on my first real job was, “The only way you’re not going to make mistakes is if you’re not doing your job” (Laubhan, 1972). Another quote from Henry Ford, “Theonly real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing,” added tomy philosophical base (Ford and Crowther, 1922). Without the wisdom conveyedby Laubhan and Ford, plus Oklahoma State University colleague Phil Kenkel’s (1990) famous quote, “How hard can it be?,” mine could have been just another mediocre career.As a dairy and farm boy from Muskogee County, Oklahoma, with a new Ph.D. in agricultural economics, I set out to educate producers in the area of marketing and risk management. I noticed that attendance at meetings and workshops was good. Participants were interested and listened. They even triedsome of my ideas. Nearly all of them, if not all, reverted back to decisions and techniques they had used before my meetings or workshops.Observant and inquisitive soul that I was, I conducted research to determine who was right. The results indicated that the producers were mostly right! If research-based information and education were to be transferred, and management practices were to be changed, either the subject matter and/or the method of delivery had to change.

College Fellows recognised in Queen’s Birthday 2014 Honours List

College Fellows recognised in Queen’s Birthday 2014 Honours List

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors

EDUCATION LEADS' VIEWS ABOUT UNDERGRADUATE PALLIATIVE CARE (PC) TEACHING IN THEIR MEDICAL SCHOOL: A UK WIDE SURVEY

BackgroundThe views of newly-qualified doctors regarding their readiness to care for PC patients have been investigated.1 By comparison, less is known about the opinions of undergraduate PC leads concerning their...

Obstetrics and Gynecology Ultrasound Fellowship: Experience of Dubrovnik International University Fellowship Program in Dubai

ABSTRACT In this article, we review a 4-year experience (2009-2013) with a Postgraduate Fellowship Program in Advanced obstetrics and gynecology Ultrasound under the Academic Mentorship of Dubrovnik International University (DIU), Croatia. The fellowship was conducted in Dubai, Welcare Mediclinic Hospital, and an Academic Teaching Hospital of DIU. Since 2009, we completed four master diploma courses with 38 graduates from the Middle East, Africa and Asia. The concept of the fellowship program did not require internship in our institution and allowed postgraduate students to remain in their professional and private environment. Each fellowship lasted for one year, including six teaching modules of 9 days every other month. The modules consisted of lectures given by international faculty and handson in the hospital, in the field of ultrasound in obstetrics and gynecology. The number of participants was limited to twelve in one course. At the end of the fellowship, students had to pass a written, oral and practical examination and hand over a logbook of a minimum of 50 sonographic case documentations. We give detailed account of the fellowship program, medicolegal and administrative specifics, course-related problems and their solutions from the nursing perspective, and describe the organizational challenges. How to cite this article Kurjak A, Honemeyer U, Sungler P, Grobler D, John LN. Obstetrics and Gynecology Ultrasound Fellowship: Experience of Dubrovnik International University Fellowship Program in Dubai. Donald School J Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2014;8(1):52-59.