Survival Guides Research Articles

"Survival Guides” for Resident Clinical Rotations

"Survival Guides” for Resident Clinical Rotations

Key adaptations of SME restaurants in Malaysia amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

SME restaurants have reported declined earnings and faced challenges to remain open during the Movement Control Order (MCO) period imposed by the Malaysian government due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. SME decision-makers were observed to be making changes regarding their day-to-day operations and management strategies to mitigate MCO restrictions. This paper aims to review the significant adaptations made by SME restaurants in Malaysia throughout the MCO period. Three (3) prominent areas of adaptations made by decision-makers have been identified based upon ceaseless news reports and media contents. The adaptations made commonly depict actions to (i) Nurture Creativity, (ii) Sustain Reputation, and (iii) Maintain Profitability. The outcomes of this paper provide essential survival guides for SME restauranteurs to embrace the COVID-19 outbreak. These can be helpful to related policy and decision-makers to implement the crucial traits of SME restaurants to reduce the impact on SME restaurants for the foreseeable future.

Book Review on “The Survival Guide to Endocrine Pathology (Pathology Survival Guides Series 1, Volume 4) by Sylvia L. Asa, MD, PhD”

Book Review on “The Survival Guide to Endocrine Pathology (Pathology Survival Guides Series 1, Volume 4) by Sylvia L. Asa, MD, PhD”

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Survival Guides Among Student and New Nurse Practitioners.

The transition between student and new nurse practitioner (NP) can be challenging. Survival guides given to student NPs may help ease the transition and make it a successful one. This study evaluates the effectiveness of survival guides in two student NP cohorts in the fall 2015 and fall 2016 semesters. Students completed a brief online survey at graduation, and three and six months after graduation. Results support the inclusion of survival guides in NP curricula as a creative way to positively support the transition from student to new NP and improve preparation for NP practice.

Home Is Where You Park It

Living in an automobile is an increasingly common but underexamined experience in the United States. The car provides shelter against the elements of outdoors, but living in the automobile requires a complex set of practices over dispersed space in order to meet basic bodily and social needs. Using accounts of car dwelling found in survival guides, news reports, blogs, and day-in-the-life videos, this article analyzes some of the fundamental tensions between stillness and mobility, private and public, and home and homeless evidenced in the place-making practices of car dwelling. In analyzing the relationship between material arrangements, practices of spatial and social regulation, and identity formation, I argue that while car dwelling cannot be linked to one specific identity or experience. Relying on Doreen Massey’s concept of ‘practicing place’ this article shows how the complex negotiations of place-making expose multiple routes to theorize nonnormative uses of space and materiality and to develop more equitable access to resources.

Impact of a dermatology wiki website on dermatology education

The Dermatology Education Wiki (dermwiki) website serves as a resource platform for medical students and residents. The readily accessible interface provides dermatology articles, survival guides, didactic lectures, and links to faculty talks as well as research opportunities. To assess medical student and resident satisfaction with the dermwiki website. Fourth-year medical students taking a dermatology elective were provided with a temporary password to access relevant dermwiki information. A satisfaction survey was created to assess whether medical students found the website helpful. Second- and third-year dermatology residents were also surveyed to compare satisfaction scores prior to and after the introduction of the dermwiki website. End-of-rotation medical student exam scores were tabulated and compared to the average scores from years prior to the development of the dermwiki website. Medical students rated the dermatology elective with the dermwiki website higher than rotations without a wiki (8.12 vs 7.31). Students planning to go into dermatology were more satisfied with the dermwiki website, reported accessing the website more frequently (11 times vs 9.5 times), and reported more time spent studying (12.2 hours vs 6.7 hours) than students not going into dermatology. End-of-rotation medical student exam scores did not differ from those prior to the development of the demwiki website. Ten second- and third-year dermatology residents unanimously stated that they were more satisfied with the program after the institution of the dermwiki website. Overall, addition of the dermwiki website to the dermatology elective curriculum has improved medical student and resident satisfaction scores. The improvement is greater among students planning to enter the field of dermatology. This study serves as a model for the incorporation of internet-based interactive tools to transform and supplement the learning environment.

Problem Solving in Abdominal Imaging

Elsevier's new Problem Solving in Abdominal Imaging offers you a concise, practical, and instructional approach to your most common imaging questions. It presents basic principles of problem solving while imaging the abdominal and pelvic organs, gastrointestinal tract, and genitourinary tract. Inside, you'll find expert guidance on how to accurately read what you see, and how to perform critical techniques including biopsy and percutaneous drainage. User-friendly features, such as tables and boxes, tips, pitfalls, and rules of thumb, place today's best practices at your fingertips. A full-color design, including more than 700 high-quality images, highlights critical elements and compliments the text, to enhance your understanding. Best of all, a bonus CD provides you with an atlas of basic surgical procedures and survival guides for managing musculoskeletal and chest findings encountered on abdominal imaging examinations. Provides problem-solving advice to help you find abnormalities and accurately identify what you see. Presents a section devoted to clinical scenarios-organized by presenting signs or disease processes-covering those you're most likely to encounter in daily practice. Includes tips for optimization of the most common advanced imaging techniques used for the abdominal and pelvic regions-with general indications for use and special situations-to help you make the most of each modality. Offers step-by-step guidance that will help you safely approach challenging abdominal interventions, reduce complications, and improve outcomes. Features tables and boxes, tips, pitfalls, and other teaching points for easy reference. Incorporates high-quality images and a full-color design that illuminate important elements. Includes a CD containing an atlas of basic surgical procedures and survival guides for managing incidental musculoskeletal and chest findings encountered on abdominal imaging examinations.

Boys are Reading, but their Choices are not Valued by Teachers and Librarians

Boys are Reading, but their Choices are not Valued by Teachers and Librarians

Sufficiency Economy and the Bourgeois Virtues

The king of Thailand articulated the Sufficiency Economy Philosophy (SEP). Supporters of sustainable development, including the United Nations Development Program, have embraced the SEP. However, the SEP also confronts many critics, perhaps in part because critics disapprove the monarchy's perceived political outlook. The SEP is understood most usefully as a primer to help Thais, especially those with modest assets, to make their way among the largely unfamiliar signposts of globalized markets. In support of this understanding, the article introduces broadly similar, norm-focused survival guides associated historically with the onset of capitalism in Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

PhD survival guide

Graduate student seeks survival guides.

Archiving Areas: The Ethnogeographic Board and the Second World War

The Second World War's global dimensions necessitated an intellectual mobilization dedicated to the study of the world's geographical regions. In the United States, the production of this intelligence prepared the ground for Cold War area studies, as information on certain cultural and natural spaces was collected and classified in central repositories or published in comprehensive manuals. Using archival and period sources, this article employs the central example of the Smithsonian Institution's Ethnogeographic Board to trace the relationship between the production of geographical knowledge and American military practices during the war. Through survival guides, services to intelligence agencies, filing efforts, and surveys of areal education, the board crafted a cartographic framework with a specific structure. The regional parts of this map were environments where the reach of militarism and social science could be localized. This study contributes to an understanding of geography's crucial relationship with militarism, and to the related history of geographical thought and practice during the Second World War by considering applied intellectual work and by transgressing disciplinary boundaries—boundaries that were of little importance in wartime—to demonstrate that both regional and systematic approaches to geography could be made flexible in the face of geopolitical demands.

Book Review: Survival Guides for Adoptive Parents

Book Review: Survival Guides for Adoptive Parents

Predicting Survival of Preterm Infants

In pregnancies at high risk for preterm birth, parents and clinicians must make difficult decisions without adequate data. These British authors sought to create weight- and gestational age-specific survival guides for infants born between 22 and 32 weeks gestation. Researchers collected data on birth weight, birth date, gestational …

Editorial

If there is such a maxim as ‘a new year, a new look, a new beginning’, we have taken it literally. Unless you are a first-time subscriber, you could hardly fail to notice that Current Biology has been extensively overhauled by designers, and that a new ‘Magazine’ section appears at the front of the issue. In one of those fascinating shifts in language, the word journal, which used to mean a daily newspaper, has come instead to signify an academic periodical, whereas the term magazine is now used mainly for the less than academic periodical publications. The ‘Magazine’ section within our journal reflects this distinction. It will be more about scientists, scientific life and the scientific process than about research itself. Its content will range from profiles of scientists to survival guides, and from a look at what big scientific questions remain unanswered to graphic representations of how scientific knowledge has spread. Because of space constraints, the Magazine section in this issue contains only some of the diverse elements that are planned. Naturally, we welcome your suggestions and your responses. We will be happy to consider any responses for publication in Current Biology, and may also use them to seed discussion groups within BioMedNet — for more on which, see below. The appearance of Current Biology has been given a thorough overhaul both to modernize and to improve the design of the journal. We are resigned to the fact that the changes are certain to be disliked at first by a proportion of readers, purely on aesthetic grounds. But we hope that most of you like the new style, and appreciate its benefits, from the start. Again, comments are welcome. In the past, we have occasionally been accused of publishing a journal that ‘lacks gravitas’. It seems that our extensive use of colour schematics, some even approaching cartoon-strip style, was the initial problem. Papers published in such a journal might not gain the respect they deserved, the critics seemed to be suggesting. (I am glad to report that at least one of the erstwhile critics published a paper in Current Biology during 1995.) The same accusation may re-surface over our re-design and, more probably, over the addition of the Magazine section. But we are certain that the great majority of our readers will recognize our serious commitment to publishing papers of excellence and general interest alongside a diversity of other information of interest to biologists. A year ago on this page, I promised that within a few months, anyone with full Internet access would be able to read and, more importantly, search an electronic version of Current Biology (and its sister journals). Not only is this now the case, but you will frequently find that the latest issue is available to you electronically before the print version reaches you. To access the electronic version, go to http://BioMedNet.com on the World Wide Web, become a member of the BioMedNet club and find Current Biology in the library. As a subscriber to Current Biology, you will not be charged either for joining the club or for access to Current Biology. Clearly, the next step in Current Biology's electronic publication plans is to make each paper accessible shortly after it has been accepted, rather than as part of a batch (as is already happening with Folding & Design, a new sister journal). Finally, I would like to acknowledge the help of those members of our Editorial Board who are standing down this year, and to welcome its new members, Dan Gottschling, Mary-Claire King, Bill Newsome, Chris Somerville, Cynthia Wolberger and Jun-Ying Yuan.