Invitational Symposium Research Articles

Plenary Session and Invited Symposium

Plenary Session and Invited Symposium

The Nature and Management of Labor Pain: Executive summary

This report describes the background and process for a rigorous project to improve understanding of labor pain and its management, and summarizes the main results and their implications. Labor pain and methods to relieve it are major concerns of childbearing women, with considerable implications for the course, quality, outcome, and cost of intrapartum care. Although these issues affect many women and families and have major consequences for health care systems, both professional and public discourse reveal considerable uncertainty about many questions, including major areas of disagreement. An evidence-based framework, including commissioned papers prepared according to carefully specified scopes and guidelines for systematic review methods, was used to develop more definitive and authoritative answers to many questions in this field. The papers were presented at an invitational symposium jointly sponsored by the Maternity Center Association and the New York Academy of Medicine, were peer-reviewed, and are published in full in this issue of the journal. The results have implications for policy, practice, research, and the education of both health professionals and childbearing women. (Am J Obstet Gynecol 2002;186:S1-15.)

Home hygiene: A reemerging issue for the new millennium

In February 1999, the Columbia University School of Nursing and the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center hosted an international invitational symposium, “Perspectives on Home Hygiene: Building A Rational Approach,” to examine the science behind home hygiene practices to prevent the spread of infections among household members. This supplement includes the consensus statement summarizing the findings of that meeting and the papers presented.

Comments From the Co-Editors

"It takes about 6 to 12 months to learn how to practice in an office after completing a residency in pediatrics." This common assertion has been heard so frequently as to have become almost axiomatic. It reflects what has been termed the "residency-practice training mismatch," a problem more extreme in pediatrics than in any other specialty. The effort to combat the mismatch by providing pediatrics residents "real world" experience in community settings is not new, but the movement has taken on new momentum. The Residency Review Committee Program Requirements now mandate "structured educational experiences that prepare residents for the role of advocate for the health of children within the community." Several programs nationally have led the way in developing, implementing, and evaluating models in practices, schools, and various community agencies. The conference, of which this supplement is a summary, provided a "State of the Art" review of basic and applied educational principles for residency education in community settings. The forerunner of the conference was an invitational symposium in Worcester, MA, on June 13 and 14, 1992, supported by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau. The 1992 conference brought together experienced, knowledgeable individuals from programs with education activities in their communities and served as the basis for the development of Pediatric Education in Community Settings. A Manual. The manual was supported by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Ambulatory Pediatric Association. The 1996 national conference was designed to take place shortly after the printing of the manual, to reinforce basic elements of education—with special reference to education outside the hospital setting—and to promote active discussion and networking.

Escaping Poverty: The Promise of Higher Education

Escaping Poverty: The Promise of Higher Education

Introduction: Common ground for a unified approach

This issue comprises four papers on educational personnel and school evaluation. The papers were developed as part of the work of CREATE's Cross-Cutting Theory Project over a series of meetings in the fall and winter of 1993-94. earlier versions were first presented at a special invitational symposium in New Orleans on April 5, 1994, during the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association; the symposium was organized to gain feedback from leading evaluation specialists on our progress toward developing a unified model of educational personnel and school evaluation.

Advances in random utility models report of the workshop on advances in random utility models duke invitational symposium on choice modeling behavior

In recent years, major advances have taken place in three areas of random utility modeling: (1) semiparametric estimation, (2) computational methods for multinomial probit models, and (3) computational methods for Bayesian estimation. This paper summarizes these developments and discusses their implications for practice.

International invitational symposium on unification of finite element methods

International invitational symposium on unification of finite element methods

International invitational symposium on unification of finite element methods

International invitational symposium on unification of finite element methods

Eighth UFEM invitational symposium on unification of finite element software systems will be dedicated to professor Richard H. Gallagher University of Connecticut, Storrs, U.S.A., May 3, 1985

Eighth UFEM invitational symposium on unification of finite element software systems will be dedicated to professor Richard H. Gallagher University of Connecticut, Storrs, U.S.A., May 3, 1985

The 8th invitational ufem symposium: Unification of finite element software systems

The 8th invitational ufem symposium: Unification of finite element software systems

The 8th invitational UFEM symposium: Unification of finite element software systems

The 8th invitational UFEM symposium: Unification of finite element software systems

Seventh UFEM invitational symposium on Unification of finite elements, finite differences, and calculus of variations will be Dedicated to Professor John H. Argyris: University of Connecticut, Storss, U.S.A., May 4, 1984

Seventh UFEM invitational symposium on Unification of finite elements, finite differences, and calculus of variations will be Dedicated to Professor John H. Argyris: University of Connecticut, Storss, U.S.A., May 4, 1984

Seventh invitational symposium on the unification of finite elements, finite differences, and calculus of variations

Seventh invitational symposium on the unification of finite elements, finite differences, and calculus of variations

7th invitational symposium on the unification of finite elements, finite differences and calculus of variations The University of Connecticut, U.S.A. 4 May, 1984

7th invitational symposium on the unification of finite elements, finite differences and calculus of variations The University of Connecticut, U.S.A. 4 May, 1984

7Th Invitational Symposium On the Unification of Finite Elements, Finite Differences, and Calculus of Variations

7Th Invitational Symposium On the Unification of Finite Elements, Finite Differences, and Calculus of Variations

Review of Smitherman (1981): Black English and the Education of Black Children and Youth: Proceedings of the National Invitational Symposium on the King Decision

Review of Smitherman (1981): Black English and the Education of Black Children and Youth: Proceedings of the National Invitational Symposium on the King Decision

Geneva Smitherman, ed., Black English and the Education of Black Children and Youth: Proceedings of the National Invitational Symposium on the King Decision

Geneva Smitherman, ed., <i>Black English and the Education of Black Children and Youth: Proceedings of the National Invitational Symposium on the King Decision</i>

5th invitational symposium on the unification of finite elements—finite differences—calculus of variations: University of Connecticut 2 May 1980

5th invitational symposium on the unification of finite elements—finite differences—calculus of variations: University of Connecticut 2 May 1980

5th Invitational symposium on the unification of finite elements—finite differences—calculus of variations University of Connecticut 2 May 1980

5th Invitational symposium on the unification of finite elements—finite differences—calculus of variations University of Connecticut 2 May 1980