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‘What is the most important lesson you learnt as a neuroscience master's student?’ A single-question study in postgraduate neuroscience education

IntroductionNeuroscience is a young discipline and an expanding field of study and research. The number of neuroscience postgraduate courses has risen much more rapidly than in any other field of biomedical research. However, from a scholarship perspective, the master's experience has been understudied. This work focuses on the answers given by a group of neuroscience alumni, a rarely examined academic cohort, to a straightforward question: ‘What is the most important lesson you learnt as a master's student?’.MethodsThematic analysis was performed on 27 entries hosted by a public-facing blog of a STEM-intense university across four academic years.ResultsFour themes emerged: Skills, Theoretical knowledge, Attitudes and Community. Beyond replicating previous findings on the importance of skills and theoretical knowledge, an ‘imbalance’ between them has been reported for the first time. What emerges in our work is the overwhelming importance the alumni place in attitudes, especially resilience, and in the social/community aspects of learning, along with the role played by fellow students, faculty and laboratory colleagues.DiscussionThe master's level can be the ideal one for increasing awareness of resilience and learning how to make the most of it. Institutions should consider strategies for strengthening informal learning and supporting the development of professional identities. These findings can be of interest to a wide range of neuroscience educators and provide useful insights for designing effective postgraduate training courses. Future works can investigate the how beyond the what and explore the roles played by attitudes, emotions and feelings across neuroscientists’ career stages.

Embracing Ignorance and Failure Promotes Research Excellence

Pursuing research as an undergraduate student deepens and enhances both your college experience and your post college plans. Whether someone hopes to go to graduate school, medical school, or into the workforce, the lessons you learn during a research project will further your abilities and potential. In this essay, we reflect on four lessons that we learned during our first full-time nine-week research project: (1) Do it, (2) Learn to thrive at the interface of knowledge and ignorance, (3) Embrace failure, and (4) Build confidence for the future. We use our experiences to identify key areas of growth, both personal and professional, that we gained as we moved from class-based students to researchers exploring at the edge of current knowledge.

Learning to Practice Compassionate Care: Medical Students Discuss Their Most Memorable Lessons.

Compassion in interactions between physicians and patients can have a therapeutic effect independent of the technical medical treatment provided. However, training physicians to effectively communicate compassion is challenging. This study explores how medical students experienced training focused on interacting with patients by examining students’ reports of particularly memorable lessons. Six focus groups were conducted with medical students (total n = 48) in their fourth year of training. We report on responses from students to the question, “What was the most memorable lesson you have learned about interacting with patients?” Students discussed lessons aimed at patient-centered physical navigation, interpersonal navigation, and perspective taking. Concerns were raised that navigation techniques felt inauthentic and that perspective taking was too time consuming to be sustainable in actual practice. While perspective-taking exercises should motivate medical students to treat every patient with dignity by demonstrating the complexity of others’ lives, if students assume that full understanding is a prerequisite to delivery of compassionate care, they may dismiss explicit techniques of patient-centered care as inauthentic and perceive compassion and efficiency as mutually exclusive.

Detecting Text Reuse with Passim

In this lesson you will learn about text reuse detection -- the automatic identification of reused passages in texts -- and why you might want to use it in your research. Through a detailed installation guide and two case studies, this lesson will teach you the ropes of Passim, an open source and scalable tool for text reuse detection.

Running a Collaborative Research Website and Blog with Jekyll and GitHub

In this lesson you will be introduced to the challenges and opportunities that Jekyll, a popular, static site generator, offers for publishing collaborative, ongoing research online.

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This research, which aims to examine the researches related to modeling, to determine their interests, participation, and points of view towards music, is a research in the scanning model for quantitative data. The research should be selected as the study universe of Sakarya Province Social Development Center and should be reviewed. It reached the student with random sampling. It is a data collection tool under the necessary expertise in the research. It is for exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis of the scale. It was passed after the necessary reliability analysis. It reached the conclusion that the attitudes towards the folk music choir lesson you researched were positive.

Writing Resources—An Annotated List of Helpful Books

Writing Resources—An Annotated List of Helpful Books

Visualizing Data with Bokeh and Pandas

In this lesson you will learn how to visually explore and present data in Python by using the Bokeh and Pandas libraries.

Introduction to stylometry with Python

In this lesson you will learn to conduct 'stylometric analysis' on texts and determine authorship of disputed texts. The lesson covers three methods: Mendenhall's Characteristic Curves of Composition, Kilgariff's Chi-Squared Method, and John Burrows' Delta Method.

Building your reputation and becoming known: top tips for success

Most people do not like being sold to and will actively shy away from direct marketing if they feel they are not in control. The key to successful marketing is to build a rapport with your target audience and to do this, you need to build an emotional connection with them. Jason Ratcliffe discusses lessons you can use to build your reputation and stand out to promote your brand

Sentiment Analysis for Exploratory Data Analysis

In this lesson you will learn to conduct 'sentiment analysis' on texts and to interpret the results. This is a form of exploratory data analysis based on natural language processing. You will learn to install all appropriate software and to build a reusable program that can be applied to your own texts.

Fetching and Parsing Data from the Web with OpenRefine

OpenRefine is a powerful tool for exploring, cleaning, and transforming data. In this lesson you will learn how to use Refine to fetch URLs and parse web content.

Top ten lessons for managers: How to be heard

The most important of the top ten lessons for managers is to communicate effectively. In this article, I'll focus again on one of the top ten lessons derived from some of the most downloaded articles from the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, lessons from Balachandra and Friar (1997), Cooper (1983), Grant and Pennypacker (2006), Pinto and Dennis (1987), and Pinto and Samuel (1990), as well as one of Peter Drucker’s eight practices: to take responsibility for communicating (Drucker, 2004). In this article we will focus on group communications and being heard, especially in meetings with your peers. Although the Technology Managers' Notebook articles are for managers, this is a topic that managers should cover with their bright, aspiring young engineers. If you want to help your young engineers to have successful careers, this might be the most important lesson you can give them. We'll cover other aspects of communication in later articles.

Editing Audio with Audacity

In this lesson you will learn how to use Audacity to load, record, edit, mix, and export audio files.

An Introduction to Version Control Using GitHub Desktop

In this lesson you will be introduced to the basics of version control, understand why it is useful and implement basic version control for a plain text document using git and GitHub.

Story and Schuchmann's " When God doesn’t fix it: Lessons you never wanted to learn, truths you can’t live without" (Book Review)

Story and Schuchmann's " When God doesn’t fix it: Lessons you never wanted to learn, truths you can’t live without" (Book Review)

An Acknowledgement Ode

I recently found my 20-year-old “procedure log-book” from residency—a passbook in which residents document successful performance of invasive tasks. Its white, beaten-soft cardboard cover barely held a thick chunk of canary-colored carbons, carrying impressions of submitted originals, documenting procedures I was attempting to master. Each yellow echo represented equally a critical training step and a patient giving him or herself to me for first attempts at procedures that were at best uncomfortable, at worst dangerous, if my inexperience resulted in disaster. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, allowing for distance and perspective. As I flipped through the pages of procedure after procedure, I was struck by the frequency that one patient's name reoccurred again and again. Although I likely missed the opportunity to tell him personally, I wanted to formally acknowledge one of my greatest teachers: Dear XX, I wanted to thank you for teaching me critical skills and lessons that shaped the doctor I am today. Your frequent ED visits forced me to evolve from sitting in classrooms staring at books to standing bedside of a three-dimensional patient, with problems no longer sterile or easily classified. My procedure book is filled with your name. Flipping through its pages, I had an olfactory memory of ethchlorvynol, the scent of a new shower curtain liner that emanated from your skin. I always knew when you had come through the department, even if I wasn't your doctor that day. You were my first “Type” of patient: my first “addict,” my first “overdose,” my first “difficult” patient. You were my first AMA discussion—do you remember whiffing a haymaker past my head during a tirade and screaming at me “I am a person! You have no right to hold me!”—a pointed lesson. Thank you for training me how to use the tubes of my new trade. You were my first, second, and third intubations; my first Foley catheter; my first nasogastric tube; and my first orogastric tube placement. Thank you for enduring my countless inexperienced attempts to place IVs in your hands, arms, and feet and, when impossible, allowing me to place femoral, jugular, and subclavian central lines. When I rotated on the trauma service, the car that struck you serendipitously realigned our paths and the lessons continued. Thank you for collaborating with my first trauma chest tube placed quickly between your ribs while the trauma senior loomed and allowing me to experience the beautifully choreographed emergency laparotomy to remove your shattered spleen, an image seared into my memory. Thank you for letting me care for your aspiration pneumonia when I was on the medical service and for talking with me after my scut work was done. You were one of the first patients I had the time to really meet and begin to understand as a person: how you came to live as you did, how you survived, what your goals were. Thank you for teaching me that stepping out of a comfort zone can improve a bad situation, a lesson I've taken to heart. Remember threatening that you wouldn't leave the hospital when informed of your discharge? While the team talked of hospital police and forceful expulsion, you called me into your room and explained that your long hair upset you—”I'm not a hippie!” You refused to wait for the hospital's barber, demanding I do my best with trauma shears. When it was done you happily got dressed and left. While others may not remember you fondly, for me your visits showed that even the most difficult patients, when encountered at a different moment, could become favorites. When your blue eyes were clear, I enjoyed listening to your practical, grounded, and realistic insights about the world. I am grateful for both the procedural and the human lessons you have given me. Your student, Jason Hack

White Feelings, Feeling Straight: Cultivating Affective Attentiveness for Queer Futurities

February 20, 2014 Dear Jose, I write this letter with some regret knowing that you will never read it. It pains me to learn another pivotal academic mentor has passed. For many years now, your work has inspired me. A crucial lesson you have guided me to is the importance of articulating the affective relations of normative identities, by privileged bodies, in order to promote futurities across lines of difference. White and/or straight bodies are bound by an affective lacking that removes an attentive awareness of the emotive happenings between their bodies and Others. In this letter, I share how your work has trained me to see the affects of my white straight body in relation to Others. My life first intersected with you in a university bookstore when I purchased Disidentifications. I felt overlaps in my performing self that sought disidentificatory spaces and performances. Your nudging gave me the courage to press through the toxic enculturation of heteronormativity, misogyny, and white supremacy. Reading Disidentification motivated me to continue the theoretical journey of locating performances of agency. I sought to locate spaces of performative agency where marginalized bodies remake and rewrite dominant scripts. Although I understood the harms of limiting Latina/o studies to only brown bodies, I desperately fumbled with the negotiations of my heteronormative whiteness in relation to Latina drag queens. I felt like an imposter reading your

Creating New Vector Layers in QGIS 2.0

In this lesson you will learn how to create vector layers based on scanned historical maps.

Installing QGIS 2.0 and Adding Layers

In this lesson you will install QGIS software, download geospatial files like shapefiles and GeoTIFFs, and create a map out of a number of vector and raster layers.