Recent National Conference Research Articles

Make It So: Harnessing Technology to Provide Professional Development to Regional Museum Workers

Make It So: Harnessing Technology to Provide Professional Development to Regional Museum Workers

Who is in 'the Public'? Infrastructure of Displacement and Urban Resettlement in Mozambique

This paper explores possibilities of inclusive urban development by examining the relationships between physical infrastructure, displacement and resettlement. It pays particular attention to the notions of 'development' and 'the public'. Infrastructure as public works often justifies the displacement of people for the sake of the wider population's 'development'. It can also serve to benefit the displaced people if it includes them in the 'public' that participates in the 'development', especially in the form of ensuring a sound resettlement experience. The question is: how can this inclusion be envisioned and practised? To answer this question, this paper examines recent experiences of development-induced displacement and resettlement in Mozambique by using two examples: the Maputo?KaTembe bridge and its resettlement programme, as debated at the recent National Conference on Resettlement and in published sources, and the resettlement programme of the Limpopo National Park, based on primary field research. The paper analyses these resettlement experiences through three major accounts of infrastructure centred on state-building and formalization, co-production and heterogeneity, and open source and sharing urbanism. The paper argues that recognizing the heterogeneity and sharing aspects of infrastructure development in the post-resettlement context is key to reconstituting the public and promoting inclusive urban development in the major infrastructure development that accompanies displacement and resettlement.

Due comunicazioni di Nefrologia Narrativa presentate al convegno della Società Italiana di Nefrologia di Rimini 2018

Narrative nephrology communications presented at the SIN conference. The article reports two oral communications of narrative nephrology presented at the recent national conference of the Italian N...

“Sim Wars”: A New Edge to Academic Residency Competitions

Introduction: Simulation training is an educational modality that is increasingly being utilized by emergency medicine programs to train and assess residents in core competencies. During a recent national conference, patient simulators were used in a competition to highlight multitasking, teamwork, and patient care skills. The combination of audience participation and an expert panel provided a creative forum for learning. Methods: the Foundation for Education and Research in Neurological Emergencies (FERNE) and the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association (EMRA) sponsored an innovative competition between emergency medicine residencies during the 2008 Scientific Assembly of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). This competition used high‐fidelity simulations to create scenarios on neurologic emergencies. Six teams were selected to participate in the three‐hour single‐elimination competition. The three‐member resident teams were then randomly paired against another institution. Three separate 10 minute scenarios were created for the initial round, allowing paired teams to compete on the same scenario. An expert panel provided commentary and insight on the management by each team. In addition, the experts provided feedback in the areas of communication and team training. Each round's winners were determined by the audience using an interactive system. Results: Based on the immediate feedback from participants, audience members and the expert panelists, this event was an entertaining and successful learning experience for both residents and faculty. Like the Clinical Pathological Cases (CPC) competitions, “Sim Wars” provides a showcase for residencies to demonstrate practice philosophies while providing a unique emphasis on teamwork and communication skills. The ability to expand this program to include regional competitions that lead to a national contest could be the framework for future exciting and educational events.

Survey Shows That Surveyors, Others Need Education About Culture Change

Survey Shows That Surveyors, Others Need Education About Culture Change

Research in action

The Teacher Learning Academy supports teachers who take on classroom-based research. Geoff Goode reports from the recent national conference and explains why his school has embraced the TLA so enthusiastically

Fighting for the Reputation of Vaccines: Lessons From American Politics

Over the past decade, the reputation of childhood vaccines has been severely damaged. The latest blow came during a recent episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show ,1 on which 2 celebrity mothers presented emotional stories about their autistic children and implicated the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine in the cause of their illness. Their stories were told despite ample research that has long since debunked the original article by Wakefield et al2 from 1998 (which linked the vaccine and autism) and the fact that their original article was retracted by the journal ( Lancet ) that published it. Nevertheless, attending a lecture at the American Academy of Pediatrics' most recent national conference and exhibition at which the subject of vaccines came up, pediatricians from around the country shared story after story of parents who have refused shots on the basis of what they had seen on Oprah and elsewhere in the media. I recall at least 2 parents in my practice who expressed concern and suspicion about vaccines, not just because of these mothers' testimonials but also because of the response to it by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Ms Winfrey read the CDC's statement on air: “CDC places a high priority on vaccine safety and the integrity and credibility of its vaccine safety research. This commitment not only stems from our scientific and medical dedication, it is also personal—for most of us who work at CDC are also parents and grandparents. And as such, we too, have high levels of personal interest and concern in the health and safety of children, families and communities. We simply don't know what … Address correspondence to Rahul K. Parikh, MD, Kaiser Permanente, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 1425 S Main St, Walnut Creek, CA 94596. E-mail: rahul.k.parikh{at}kp.org

Media, Democracy, and the Left: Seeing the Bigger Picture

If you had attended the most recent National Conference for Media Reform, held in Memphis, Tennessee, this past January and sponsored by Free Press ( www.freepress.net ), you might think that the media reform movement is on a roll. There was a palpable sense of momentum in Memphis, as more than 3,000 attendees—a substantial increase over previous conferences in Madison, Wisconsin, and St. Louis, Missouri—filled the convention center to hear speakers such as Jesse Jackson, Bill Moyers, David Brancaccio, FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Van Jones, Geena Davis, and Jane Fonda preach eloquently to the choir.

Getting IT right

The debate about the role of technology in meeting the personalisation agenda took centre stage at a recent national conference. Sonali Hindmarch reports

Publication of abstracts presented at 2001 NACCT

The timely and formal publication of material presented as abstracts at national meetings is critical to the dissemination of new information to the medical community. We designed a retrospective study to evaluate the publication rates of abstracts presented at a recent national toxicology conference. In addition, we attempted to determine whether readily identifiable characteristics could predict a greater likelihood of publication. In June of 2004, we reviewed 237 abstracts from the 2001 North American Congress of Clinical Toxicology (NACCT). Abstracts were classified according to methodology and content. We then searched Medline, using PubMed, to determine the publication of each abstract. Fifty-seven of 237 abstracts (24.1%) were subsequently published in peer reviewed journals. There was no statistically significant difference in the rate of publication when abstracts were categorized with respect to methodology. When categorized with respect to content, abstracts related to natural toxins had a higher publication rate (41.2%; p < 0.05). Three years after presenting abstracts at the 2001 NACCT meeting, the majority of abstracts remain unpublished. This is a lower rate than noted by other specialty medical societies.

A framework for half-time internship training in psychology.

In the past 50 years, psychology has so heavily emphasized the full-time internship as the preeminent training model that it has often overlooked the benefits of half-time internships for educators, students, the profession, and the populations that psychologists serve. This article makes a case for the nearly forgotten half-time predoctoral internship. The history and context of the half-time internship, culminating in a recent national conference, is presented. The benefits to students, doctoral programs, and the community are described, as well as obstacles and solutions for their implementation. Implications for developing more half-time internships for psychology stakeholders are also discussed.

Community-Based Research. A New Paradigm for Undergraduate Research in the Sciences

The recent national conference of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR), Crossing Boundaries: Innovations in Undergraduate Research, enabled participants to explore a variety of methods for engaging undergraduates in collaborative research with faculty. Community-based research offers an opportunity to extend this partnership to address community needs. CUR conducted a survey among conference participants to distinguish the essential elements of this form of undergraduate research and to highlight the benefits, challenges, and obstacles of this learning activity.

President's messageThe H.E.A.T. is on...can you feel it?

As I write this message to you, we are heading into the summer…and the heat is on, not only in your own backyards, but at NAPNAP too. Summer is the time when we can often take a break from our hectic lives, spend time with family and friends, and recharge for the next challenge. At NAPNAP, that next challenge is the H.E.A.T. Campaign. All around the country, the news media, research, and our own observations, tell us that a major health challenge we face as a nation is overweight and obesity. The H.E.A.T. Campaign is off to a great start, and it is exciting to see the enthusiasm of our members and their involvement in this campaign at the local and national levels. You are NAPNAP's greatest resource, and together we continue to respond to and shape the health care environment, to achieve our goal of optimal care for children and families. Over this past year, many of us have explained NAPNAP's H.E.A.T. campaign to agencies, industry partners, and any interested individuals with whom we have contact. The National Office staff and the staff at Arent Fox have worked tirelessly to support our organization in furthering the vision, objectives, and goals developed by our members for the H.E.A.T. campaign. As President Elect, I was privileged to attend many meetings on pediatric overweight, and I have listened to the best scientists hotly debate the causes of this epidemic in our children. Whether walking through the shopping mall or seeing patients in the clinic, it is evident that the body mass index of our children is on the rise, and I fear the resultant co-morbidities of hypertension and Type II diabetes. So, during the summer, when the heat is truly on, let's do our part in every way to live up to our HEAT Campaign motto, “Healthy Eating and Activity Together.” In the State of the Science presentation at our recent national conference in Dallas, Texas, many of you shared your creative ideas and successful outcomes with an individual, family, or community intervention to address pediatric overweight. It would challenge and inspire us all to have those successful programs and clinical pearls shared in our newsletter. If you have a success story or a creative intervention approach, please send it to me at info@napnap.org.

Anyone else out there indecisive?

Although comforted by being in the presence of so many nurses from his own specialty at a recent national conference, Duncan Mitchell thinks he would have preferred some multi-professional perspectives

Why is Environmental Engineering an Important Aspect of Environmental Education?

Environmental education has become the focus of national attention. The vision statement for a recent national environmental conference included exploring ‘‘the role of education regarding one of the central issues of the 21st century—how to achieve a more sustainable relationship between people and the environment. The security of people and nations, economic opportunity and quality of human life depend upon the continued availability of a life-sustaining environment’’ ~‘‘Vision’’ 2002!. Some of the university level topics explored at this conference included curricular needs for environmental sciences and environmental studies degree programs, integrating human health and environmental education, and transforming education at business schools. There appeared to be very little emphasis placed on the role of environmental engineering in the collegiate environmental education curriculum. As environmental engineers, we need to make sure that we are included in this national agenda. Why is it important to include engineering in this vast interdisciplinary grouping of knowledge? It is important because one of the goals of environmental education is ensuring that people continue to have a life-sustaining environment available to them. Engineering is part of the process in effecting this. In 1949, Merriam-Webster, Inc. ~then known as G & C Merriam Co.! defined ‘‘environment’’ and ‘‘engineering’’ in Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary ~1949! as en•vi’ron•ment...n...2. That which environs; surroundings; specific, the aggregate of all the external conditions and influences affecting the life and development of an organism, etc., human behavior, society, etc.-en•vi’ron•men’tal,adj.... en’gi•neer’ing...n... 1. Originally the art of managing engines. 2. Applied science concerned with utilizing inorganic products of earth, properties of matter, sources of power in nature, and physical forces for supplying human needs in the form of structures, machines, manufactured products, precision instruments, industrial organization, the means of lighting, heating, refrigeration, communication, transportation, sanitation, and public safety, and other productive work... Almost a half century later, these definitions have become slightly more concise in the 1996 edition of Webster’s II New Riverside Dictionary ~1996! en•vi•ron•ment...n. 1. Surroundings. 2. The combination of external physical conditions affecting the growth and development of organisms.--en•vi’ron•men’tal adj.... en•gi•neer•ing...n. 1. The application of scientific principles to practical ends. 2. The design and construction of large-scale or complex structures such as bridges, roads, and tunnels.

Editor's Notebook

EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese Nothing hadprepared mefor the wave ofgenerous response to thefirst issue /The Journal, andalthough I neverfound the time to thank in person all ofthose who wrote, their notes and letters warmed my heart and rewarded the efforts ofthose who had conjured up thatfirst issue: mainly our authors, Victor Hanson, Darryl Hart, Mark Smith, and the hte Robert Wiebe, but abo our managing editor, Laura Crawley, and myself. Above all, that warm appreciation ofour efforts strengthened my conviction that it would bepossible toproduce ajournai that combined thefinest scbofarship with a commitment tofostering a conversation about historicalproblems andcommunicatingsomething ofthe excitement ofthoseproblems to a variety ofreaders. The only drawback to our readers'generosity—ifI may be so ungracious as to voice one—lay in the attendant responsibility to live up to thatfirst success and hopefully, toprove it something more than afortuitous accident, which is surely how our critics would like to view it. In the timeworn phrase, so what doyou dofor an encore? Pondering the responsibilities ofan encore, I could not but think sympathetically ofA. E. Houseman's "To An Athlete Dying Young," or, to put it more vulgarly, why not quit while you are ahead? For better or worse, quitting was not an option, and Laura and I set ourselves to putting some flesh on the skeleton ofour original vision. Happily, we have been blessed with assistance from all quarters. The forthcoming double issue will more than testify to the quality of that assistance and—no less important—to the rapidity with which it was tendered, although even that gratifying response did not permit us to assemble a second issue as rapidly as we should have wished. Many thanks to thefolbwing foundations that havegiven THSfinancialsupport: The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation The John M. Olin Foundation The Tom Watson Brown Foundation The Earhart Foundation The William H. Donner Foundation The second issue proved a daunting challenge, primarily because of the nature ofour vision and ambition for TheJournal For ifwe are dedicated to the ideal ofpublishing scholarship of the highest quality—with which our members can abundantly provide us— we are no less dedicated to the vision of a journal that invites conversation and the continuing investigation of important historical questions. Consequently, we needed to persuade others to provide substance for that vision, either by writing responses to one ofour first four essays or by permitting us to publish revised versions of their conference papers or comments. In the end, the commentators proved the most difficult to convince, doubtless because most people do not expect to publish comments, which they often expect to develop for publication in another form. We prevailed only when we convinced them that publication in The Journal did not foreclose the future development and that we especially valued the exploratory and speculative nature of their remarks. continued on page 4 ~3~ The Presidents Comer Editor s Notebook Left, Right, Left Economic History Affiliation Announcement On Libraries Publishing In Memoriam—Robert Wiebe The Academic Job Search Regional Reports Regional Contact Info Recent Publications Awards and Achievements Announcements Membership Form fOR'S NOTEBOOK amtitiutä frompap I Thanks to the efforts of an impressive group of historians from different specializations and different stages of seniority, our forthcoming issue will begin to demonstrate some of the possibilities. For, in addition to original research (Richard Graham and Constantine Gutzman), it will include two responses to one of the articles in the first issue (Dennis Martin and David Whitford), the papers and comments from one of the sessions at our most recent national conference (Robert Kingdon, John Witte, Jr., Steven Ozment, and Philip Soergel), and three probing essays, one on the pitfalls of teaching religion (Norman Ravitch), one on Alan Guelzo's important new book on Abraham Lincoln (Darryl Hart), and one on the pitfalls of postmodern literary studies (Keith Windschuttle). And as the various pieces came in and the issue took shape, it became increasingly clear that, in various ways, they are contributing to a cluster of interlocking themes, which, in their permutations, open new questions and new lines of investigation. Finally, to end with the beginning as it were, we have one that crosses borders in that...

The Politics of Pedagogy

A recent national conference organised by the Standing Conference for the Education and Training of Teachers on the politics of pedagogy highlighted the now well-recognised trend in England towards a more and more centralist direction of classroom pedagogy. This was evidenced specifically in the recent introduction of a non-statutory literacy hour in primary schools and the impending numeracy hour to be introduced in late 1999. The conference raised a wide ranging debate of the many issues related to this trend. This paper aims to make a contribution to that debate. In this article, I take politics to be about the acquisition and exercise of power and decision-making. The politics of pedagogy is, therefore, about the use of power in decision-making about teaching and, by implication, learning. I consider how the politics of classroom pedagogy in England has been shaped by the politics of the State since 1988. I argue that power concentrated predominantly in the hands of the State is damaging to the effectiveness of some important pedagogical practices and teachers' professional confidence. Too much centralised power has generated a pedagogy in both teacher training and in schools, which is silencing enquiry and diverse critical perspectives of both teachers and children. It is also leading to convergence of training methods as witnessed, for example, in the literacy hour training and to increased levels of convergent teaching in classrooms. Rather than accept the inevitability of too much central control, we should, I argue, struggle with the difficulties and ambiguities created by requiring power to be exercised responsibly by all pedagogical stakeholders - the State, teachers and pupils - for herein lies the opportunity for a range of interest groups to participate in shaping pedagogical knowledge, especially through professional action research.

Management of adverse reactions to bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccine.

Published reports appear to underestimate the true rate of adverse reactions to bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine. At a recent national conference on tuberculosis control among aboriginal populations, lack of awareness of what constitutes an adverse reaction was considered a possible contributing factor to underreporting. The following review defines a normal BCG response and discusses the management of complications when they occur.

MANAGEMENT OF CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION

Since cardiopulmonary resuscitation was first described in 1960, it has become a standardized medical intervention. Separate guidelines have been developed for the neonatal and pediatric population, but none exist for the elderly population. This review will discuss recent available outcome data on resuscitation of the elderly and the known physiologic changes with aging that may affect decisions made during resuscitation.

Celebrating the Future of Chicano Psychology: Lessons from the Recent National Conference

There have been five significant gatherings of psychologists interested in Chicano psychology. The authors summarize the events surrounding the first four meetings on Chicano psychology to provide a context for discussing the most recent national conference on Chicano psychology, which took place 16 years after the last such meeting. A historical overview of previous conferences and key events is provided. In presenting a summary of the most recent conference on Chicano psychology, the goal was to preserve a written record for future generations of scholars interested in the intellectual developments and persons involved in the field of Chicano psychology. Lessons learned from this last conference and the personal reflections of the authors on the meaning of the conference also are supplied in this report.