Younger Colleagues Research Articles

Formy represji w czasie stanu wojennego 1982-1983 wobec działaczy opozycji antykomunistycznej umieszczonych w wojskowych obozach specjalnych

THE ARMY AS INTERNMENT: FORMS OF THE REPRESSION DURING THE MARTIAL LAW IN THE YEARS 1982-1983 AGAINST ACTIVISTS OF THE ANTICOMMUNIST OPPOSITION PLACED IN MILITARY SPECIAL CAMPS (PART II)The work focuses its issues on one of the repression forms used in the martial law introduced on 13th December 1981 to pacify the society which tried to change the fossilised communist system through activity in the Independent Self-Governing Trade Union “Solidarity”. It was not a new solution in the Polish People’s Republic – just after the Second World War the communist authority drafted into “alternative military service” opponents of sovietisation of the country, directing them to forced labour in mines. Fearing a social rebellion before the second anniversary of the independent trade union registration, communist authorities interned in military special camps, functioning in Poland from 5 November 1982 to 3 February 1983, 1450 trade union activists and members of the political parties unaccepted by communists. 264 younger colleagues of these people were drafted into the basic military service lasting two years in three units intended for this purpose.

Mobility Medicine: A call to unify hyper-fragmented specialties by abstracts sent to 2025Pdm3, and typescripts to Ejtm3, and Diagnostics.

Mega scientific conferences increasingly suffer from the need for short and poster presentations without discussion. An alternative is to organize workshops in hotels large enough to accommodate all participants. This significantly increases the opportunities for constructive discussion during breakfasts, lunches, dinners and long evenings that can bring together experts of scientific and clinical sub-specialties and young fellows. Time for groups' discussions and new collaborations are increased so as the job opportunities for the young researchers. The Padova Muscle Days have offered in the previous thirty-five years these opportunities, which have matured into innovative and multidisciplinary results to the point that it came naturally to underline it with a neologism now included in the title of the 2025 event: "Mobility Medicine", a discipline not yet officially recognised, that makes explicit the call for rejoining knowledges dispersed in sub-specialisations. The included program of the Padua Days on Muscle and Mobility Medicine 2025 (2025Pdm3) will be hosted at the Hotel Petrarca in Euganean Thermae (Padua, Italy) from 25 to 29 March 2025. It further testifies by listing unique Sessions that it is possible to organize valid countermeasures to the inevitable tendencies towards hyperspecialization that the explosive increase in scientific progress brings with it. Furthermore, the European Journal of Translational Myology and Mobility Medicine (Ejtm3) will accept typescripts on results presented at the 2025Pdm3, together with the Special Section: New Trends in Musculoskeletal Imaging of the MDPI (Basel) Journal Diagnostics, because diagnosis is essential to prevent, manage and follow-up not only neuro-metabolic-muscular disorders, but the unavoidable physiologicical decay of performances in early and late aging. Hoping many others share our dreams, we look forward to meeting you at 2025Pdm3 conference.

Demystifying aggression in response to smoking bans in psychiatry

Objective: To investigate the aggressive behaviors of patients in a psychiatric hospital adhering to the anti-smoking law and to identify their associated factors. Materials and method: This cross-sectional epidemiological study analyzed the medical records of 573 discharged patients from a Brazilian psychiatric hospital. The response variables included verbal aggression, physical aggression, physical restraint, and mechanical restraint. Multiple Poisson regression models were applied for analysis. Results: Approximately 48% of the patients were smokers. Aggression was found to be 121% higher among younger patients (aged 19-35), 73% higher among those with longer hospital stays, 55% higher among individuals hospitalized involuntarily, and 89% higher among those prescribed five or more psychotropic drugs, independent of other variables. Additionally, individuals hospitalized after the implementation of the smoking ban exhibited 55% fewer aggressive behaviors compared to those hospitalized prior to the ban. Conclusions: The study revealed that the associations between smoking and aggression, as well as the duration of hospitalization relative to the smoking ban, were influenced by personal and clinical variables. Cultural beliefs about the perceived benefits of smoking may be perpetuated among individuals with mental disorders, while older nursing professionals might influence younger colleagues’perspectives on permitting smoking in mental health settings as a means of mitigating aggression. Breaking this cycle of misinformation requires generating new knowledge and insights, which represents a significant contribution of this study.

Staffing situation and basics requirement calculations in the inpatient and outpatient sector in Germany - a representative survey by the Working Group of Senior Gastroenterology Hospital Physicians (ALGK)

In Germany, there are no uniform hospital standards for the transparent calculation of medical staffing requirements in hospitals. This is particularly true for outpatient services.The ALGK conducted a member survey via the link https://de.surveymonkey.com/r/H7TTJYZ from March 21 to May 1, 2024. 400 members with a valid email address were contacted. The 119 extraordinary members who had ended their professional activity were not included. 17 questions were asked in the survey.The response rate was 24%. 37% represented basic and standard, 47% specialized and 16% maximum care providers. Municipal hospitals were represented by 42%, denominational providers by 34% and private providers by 24%. 7% of the hospitals had fewer than 200 beds, 28% 200 to 400 beds, 37% 400 to 600 beds, 15% 600 to 800 beds and 13% more than 800 beds. Up to 1.500 patients were treated annually in 15%, up to 2.500 patients in 15%, each up to 3.000 or 4.000 patient in 22%s, up to 5,000 patientsin 16% and more than 5.000 patients per year in 12%. The average casemix was 2373 ± 999 and the casemix index 0.70 ± 0.11. On average, 17.6 ± 7.6 doctor's posts were available and one consultant treated 14 ± 2.7 patients per day. A transparent personnel calculation was not available in 56% of the departments or clinics, in 82% there was no internal cost allocation or cost recovery calculation, in 54% there was no internal cost allocation. In 54%, there was no feedback on outpatient services from the administration, in 93% there was no transparent calculation of physician positions based on outpatient services, in 97% the training and further training of young colleagues was not taken into account in the calculation of positions, in 75% there was no communicated and recognizable strategic plan by the hospital operator for the senior gastroenterologists with regard to outpatient services. 49% of those surveyed feared that their hospital operator would not be able to cope with the restructuring in the healthcare sector with outpatient services, centralization, minimum volume compliance and would even jeopardize its existence.Transparent job calculation and communication about inpatient and outpatient gastroenterology services and the strategic objectives of the healthcare structural reform are very patchy in German hospitals. This leads to a high degree of uncertainty and existential fears.

The ubiquity of countertransferential and other personal responses in progression deliberations

ABSTRACT Countertransferential and other types of personal responses to candidates are inevitable among psychoanalytic educators, whether they be supervisors, progression advisors, the progression committee as a whole, or course instructors. Nonetheless many educators remain unaware of these phenomena – despite the robust literature on this subject in supervisors – perhaps because we do not like to think of ourselves as having potentially deleterious personal reactions to younger colleagues with whom we have significant and highly valued relationships. This paper emphasizes the role of such phenomena in progression advisors' deliberations about candidates' development, as well as in the committee as a whole – a subject not addressed in the literature. Especially when unrecognized such responses can compromise the checks and balances function of the progression committee and significantly diminish rich and effective dialogue with candidates about their development. Examples of the potential impact and more or less effective mitigation of such responses are presented. Ensuring that faculty members and candidates alike are familiar with the inevitability of these reactions, their multiple sources and manifestations in those involved in the work of progression enhances the possibility of developing strategies to address these reactions and reduce their effect.

Кінема тограф у Кам’янці-Подільському (1897-1918 рр.): поява та етапи розвитку

The goal of the research is to analyze the history of emerging and development of cinematography in Kamyanets-Podilskyi in 1897-1918. A number of principles, such as historicism, scientific objectivity, socio-cultural and chronological, analysis and synthesis, historical-comparative, prosopographic, iconographic, iconological, formal-stylistic and other methods were used as the methodological basis. Scientific novelty of the research is conditioned by finding and attribution of chronical films and their fragments, filmed in Kamyanets-Podilskyi during the first two decades of the ХХ century, as well as their introduction into scientific circulation. Conclusion. The status of Kamyanets-Podilskyi as an administrative center of Podillya governorship, located on the Russian-Austrian border, permitted to implement the most advanced technical discoveries and devices, which were typical for Kyiv and Odesa. The cinematographic technology, which was created and patented in 1895 in France, was presented in 1896 in Odesa and in 1897 it was presented in Kamyanets-Podilskyi by virtue and efforts of a photographer M.Greim. Unfortunately, the first film shot by the later is nowadays considered lost. The work of his younger colleague, S. Giller, is believed to be more fruitful, as he made a dozen of films about Kamyanets-Podilskyi and its suburbs shortly before the World War I; the films were demonstrated in the cinemas of the city. In the early years of the World War I Austrian military operators have made a number of documentaries. Cinematographic work was continued by the two brothers, Srul and Abram Gillers. S. Giller’s documentaries, devoted to the grand opening of Kamyanets-Podilskyi State Ukrainian University in October, 22, 1918.

Letter to my Younger Colleagues: "Don't cry because it's over…".

Letter to my Younger Colleagues: "Don't cry because it's over…".

Coaching sees staff reconnect to social work

Grit training programme aims to give children's services staff the tools they need to significantly improve how they work with young people and colleagues

Adultcentrism and the children's classroom: if you want to teach them you must know who they are

The paper addresses academic adultcentrism from the perspective of the pre-service instruction and practice of philosophy teachers, based on the experience we have gained while leading a Didactic of Philosophy seminar for a Philosophy and Letters academic program where students are engaged in the designing, implementation and evaluation of academic material and class performance for K-12 schools. After giving a brief presentation of the context in which philosophy teaching takes place, and a description of the logic and horizon that set the basis of our seminar, we define and discuss four particular ways in which adultcentrism permeates the preparation and performance of philosophy classes for classrooms with students ranging from 8 to 15 years old: cognitive, epistemic, pedagogical and disciplinary adultcentrism. As well as some of the ways in which, as part of the seminar, the students and the instructor have devised to address and overcome the adultcentrism problems. At the end of the discussion, an auto-critical note is included in order to show the limits of our own practices and base ground, as well as a way to define new necessary approaches and perspectives required to address both the problems we found to be at the bottom of current teaching practices. As well as n our own expectations, methods and ways to deal with those issues with our pre-service young colleagues.

Opinions of Polish postgraduate nursing students on medical humanization courses in relation to age, years of service, and nursing specialty

BackgroundThe Polish educational system for nurses has undergone a substantial transformation over the past two decades, with the introduction of a mandatory university education that encompasses humanization in medicine. Consequently, nurses who had been licensed to practice before the implementation of the reform returned to universities to pursue master’s degrees alongside their younger colleagues who had only recently obtained bachelor’s degrees. This distinctive learning environment, in which nurses of varying ages and years of practice study together, offers an opportunity to gain insight into their perspectives on the educational process. Accordingly, the present study aims to examine the opinions of Polish postgraduate nursing students at one university regarding medical humanization courses, focusing on the extent to which these opinions are shaped by age, years of service, and specialty of nursing care.MethodsFrom February to June 2023, an anonymous survey was conducted on the university’s online platform, involving 89 out of 169 participants in the master’s degree nursing program. The newly designed questionnaire comprised 15 primary questions and 11 metric questions.ResultsThe study population consisted of registered nurses with a mean age of 35 years (ranging from 22 to 54 years). The majority of participants were women (97.8%). The analysis revealed that older students (Spearman’s rho 0.480, p < 0.001) and those with more years of professional experience (Spearman’s rho 0.377, p < 0.001) perceived humanizing classes as a vital component of nurse training and work. Younger and less experienced students did not share this perspective. Specialization status was also identified as a differentiating factor (Chi² = 10.830, p < 0.05). However, other characteristics, including the number of positions held during the survey, the type of position, the primary employer, and the nature of work (shift or non-shift), did not exhibit statistically significant differentiation among participants.ConclusionsThis study found age- and work-experience-related differences in nursing students’ opinions toward courses teaching humanization in health care. The results suggest that changing the teaching format and involving older and more experienced students in sharing experiences with younger and less experienced students could potentially improve the implementation of learned skills in clinical practice.

Professional development is the key to securing a future rheumatology workforce. Long term evaluation of a summer school for medical students-a national scientific society's educational initiative.

A cumulative imbalance between rheumatologic need and an inadequate number of young colleagues entering the field leads to a dearth of rheumatologists in the near future. The Austrian Society for Rheumatology and Rehabilitation (ÖGR) has been organizing an annual Rheumatology Summer School (RSS) for medical students since 2017. The aim of this study was to analyze the annual RSS evaluations, the RSS' overall effects on attracting new talent into the field and the lasting promotion of rheumatology. A questionnaire was distributed immediately after each RSS meeting. Additionally, we conducted an electronic survey among RSS participants (2017-2022) to assess their career development trajectories. From 2017-2023, a total of 220 students attended the RSS. They all completed the annual evaluation. Accordingly, students' expectations were met in 80% (2017) to 97% (2023) of cases. The electronic survey was completed by 64/133 (48%) students; 49 (77%) indicated that the RSS had markedly increased their desire to specialize in rheumatology. Among the 36 graduates, 10 (28%) had already been working in the field of rheumatology and 6 (17%) were considering this specialty but had not decided yet. RSS attendees in their 6th study year were influenced to a greater extent by the RSS to choose rheumatology as their primary specialty than 4th or 5th year students. The participants indicated that they benefited most from the RSS in terms of knowledge gain, personal awareness of rheumatology, networking among fellow students as well as gaining access to RSS faculty. The RSS enhanced students' intention to choose rheumatology, particularly in those close to graduation, and led to increased awareness and deeper knowledge about rheumatology.

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on specialty training in obstetrics and gynaecology in Hong Kong: is there a concern about the future prospect?

IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic in the past few years led to major adjustments in the provision of healthcare. This study aimed to investigate trainees’ perception of impact of the pandemic on specialty training in Obstetrics & Gynaecology (O&G) in Hong Kong.MethodsA cross-sectional questionnaire survey was performed on all the O&G trainees and the young fellows of the Hong Kong College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (HKCOG). The questionnaires included 5 parts: demographic data, impact on clinical activities, redeployment, educational activities and career progression.ResultsA total of 104 questionnaires (92.9%) were received for final analysis. The majority of the participants had reductions in elective and emergency operations, as well as exposure to in-patient admissions and out-patient clinics in both obstetrics and gynaecology. The reduction was most significant in elective gynaecology operations. One-third (34.6%) of the participants had been redeployed to other departments, and educational activities were reduced during the pandemic. Around 58% of the trainees were concerned with the reduction in clinical exposure, and 78% worried they would not be able to log sufficient number of surgical procedures. Basic trainees were significantly more worried than higher trainees. Around half of the trainees had doubts or regrets about choosing to undergo O&G specialty training.ConclusionThe O&G trainees in Hong Kong perceived that the COVID-19 pandemic had significant negative impacts on their training. Many trainees were worried they would not be able to attain the required level of competence when they complete their specialist training.

Mapping and Deep Analysis of Hospital Radiology Department to Identify Workflow Challenges and Their Potential Digital Solutions

The increasing use of imaging services and continuous technological advancement require regular optimisation of the hospital’s radiology department. Assessing stakeholders to find realistic challenges is an essential step towards achieving the desired quadruple aim (reducing costs, increasing quality of care and improving patient and clinician experience) in healthcare. The statistical gaps explored and the evidence in the literature justify the need for continuous and rapid assessment, identification of challenges, identification of trends and subsequent search for solutions in each radiology department. We have found an average increase of 7.3 per cent annually in reported computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and interventional radiology services over the last 10 years, but the number of radiologists has only increased by 2 per cent per year. In Germany, the statistics show a continuous increase in examinations per radiologist with a compound annual growth rate of 4.68 per cent. This article presents a pathway for planning, evaluating and subsequently improving individual radiology departments using a transdisciplinary approach to innovation. The transdisciplinary innovation approach was applied with 36 young innovation fellows with multidisciplinary knowledge from different global locations (Germany, India, China, UAE and USA). As part of our transdisciplinary approach, a qualitative approach was used to collect challenges during hospital visits. We identified over 100 key challenges and 10 healthcare trends from the clinical area. We developed templates for mapping the status quo, trends and challenges in radiology for each radiology department as a tool for assessment. We believe that the proposed transdisciplinary methodology, the resulting radiology model, the template(s) and the proposed digital infrastructure will be useful in the future mapping and optimisation of radiology departments.

What's Changed in 75 Years of RadRes? - An Australian Perspective on Selected Topics.

Several scientific themes are reviewed in the context of the 75-year period relevant to this special platinum issue of Radiation Research. Two criteria have been considered in selecting the scientific themes. One is the exposure of the associated research activity in the annual meetings of the Radiation Research Society (RRS) and in the publications of the Society's Journal, thus reflecting the interest of members of RRS. The second criteria is a focus on contributions from Australian members of RRS. The first theme is the contribution of radiobiology to radiation oncology, featuring two prominent Australian radiation oncologists, the late Rod Withers and his younger colleague, Lester Peters. Two other themes are also linked to radiation oncology; preclinical research aimed at developing experimental radiotherapy modalities, namely microbeam radiotherapy (MRT) and Auger endoradiotherapy. The latter has a long history, in contrast to MRT, especially in Australia, given that the associated medical beamline at the Australian Synchrotron in Melbourne only opened in 2011. Another theme is DNA repair, which has a trajectory parallel to the 75-year period of interest, given the birth of molecular biology in the 1950s. The low-dose radiobiology theme has a similar timeline, predominantly prompted by the nuclear era, which is also connected to the radioprotector theme, although radioprotectors also have a long-established potential utility in cancer radiotherapy. Finally, two themes are associated with biodosimetry. One is the micronucleus assay, highlighting the pioneering contribution from Michael Fenech in Adelaide, South Australia, and the other is the γ-H2AX assay and its widespread clinical applications.

Writing Rokeya: Muslim Women’s Life-Writing, Intergenerational Camaraderie and Activism in Twentieth Century Bengal

This paper showcases how the intersubjective is at the heart of women’s associations through Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s nurturance and support of younger colleagues in colonial Bengal. Arguing that individual memory can be constitutive of institutional history/identity, it focuses on Shamsunnahar Mahmud’s Rokeya Jibani (1937), the first ‘official’ biography of Rokeya, and Sufia Kamal’s memoir, Ekale Amader Kal (1988), both of which posit Rokeya as a foremother to women’s movements of the time and inscribe her within a silsila (chain) of activist women who are sources of inspiration to successive generations. It also explores how Mahmud and Kamal emulate and extend Rokeya’s paradigm of multigenerational sorority.

How do older employees achieve successful ageing at work through generativity in the digital workplace? A self‐affirmation perspective

AbstractThe necessity of helping older employees achieve career success in the digital workplace has drastically increased. Drawing on self‐affirmation theory, we postulate that using enterprise social media (ESM) to conduct intergenerational knowledge sharing (IGKS) is a generativity and self‐affirmation behaviour in the digital workplace, and investigate how it would help older employees enhance job performance and thus achieve successful ageing at work. Study 1 (a three‐wave time‐lagged survey study with 262 older employees over 40 years old) demonstrates that, older employees' IGKS in ESM positively affects their job performance via personal needs‐job supplies fit. Perceived younger colleagues' knowledge disseminative capacity can weaken, but perceived younger colleagues' knowledge absorptive capacity can strengthen the above indirect effect. We replicated the first study's findings in Study 2 using a two‐wave survey with 161 older employees over 50 years old. Additionally, we found that older employees' IGKS in ESM positively influences their job performance via a serial mediation of organization‐based self‐esteem and needs‐supplies fit. Perceived younger colleagues' knowledge disseminative capacity can weaken, but knowledge absorptive capacity can strengthen the serial mediation relationship. These findings contribute to integrating IGKS and ESM literature to improve the theoretical framework of successful ageing at work.

John Joseph Thomas Hayes Owen. 7 January 1934—5 January 2023

John Owen was an anatomist and immunologist who conducted pioneering work on the origins and development of the two major classes of lymphocytes, the cells that are the central players in the adaptive immune systems of vertebrates. He was a meticulous biological experimenter who liked to keep questions simple and precise. His observations contributed to two key discoveries: that mouse and avian stem cells migrate into the embryonic thymus and give rise to T lymphocytes; and that in birds the bursa of Fabricius is the tissue in which stem cells develop into B lymphocytes. He also helped to establish that in mammals the earliest B lymphocytes develop in the liver of the fetus. He and his colleagues went on to define how combinations of several cell populations in the thymus provide the settings in which mammals first generate and then select from the variety of T lymphocyte lineages and immune specificities that will equip them with healthy immune surveillance and responses. His wry Liverpudlian sense of humour let him engage easily with everyone, from any walk of life, and he was an inspiration to young colleagues, many of whom would go on to flourish in the research areas that he pioneered. John died on 5 January 2023, from prostate cancer and other ailments: but he was in the gym only a couple of weeks before he died. He is buried in Kirkdale cemetery, Lancashire, under a family tombstone that also celebrates his grandfather, his father and his mother: his epitaph reads ‘One push-up too many’.

Thirty-five years of the European Society of Hypertension: from past to future.

The European Society of Hypertension (ESH) was established 35 years ago. Since then, it promoted and coordinated a number of activities which include educational projects, epidemiological surveys and research investigations whose main focus includes different clinical and therapeutic aspects of the hypertensive disease. This article, which is based on data presented during the Presidential lecture held during the 33rd ESH Meeting in Berlin, will provide an overview of the main organization and structure of the ESH. Emphasis will be given to the relevance of the different society bodies, with a particular focus on the educational and research activities, such as the 15 working groups and the more than 120 excellence centers located in European and extra-European countries. Other main activities of the Society refer to the ESH Hypertension Specialist Program, the ESH Summer School, the ESH Young Fellow Program and the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society. A special emphasis will be given to the central role of the Society in the organization of the various research projects and in the development and dissemination of the ESH Guideline document on hypertension diagnosis and treatment. Finally, the future perspectives of the ESH in the context of the European scientific framework will be highlighted.

One must reconstitute the functions of interest from purified proteins.

I am often asked by students and younger colleagues and now by the editors of this issue to tell the history of the development of the in vitro motility assay and the dual-beam single-molecule laser trap assay for myosin-driven actin filament movement, used widely as key assays for understanding how both muscle and nonmuscle myosin molecular motors work. As for all discoveries, the history of the development of the myosin assays involves many people who are not authors of the final publications, but without whom the assays would not have been developed as they are. Also, early experiences shape how one develops ideas and experiments, and influence future discoveries in major ways. I am pleased here to trace my own path and acknowledge the many individuals involved and my early science experiences that led to the work I and my students, postdoctoral fellows, and sabbatical visitors did to develop these assays. Mentors are too often overlooked in historical descriptions of discoveries, and my story starts with those who mentored me.

Factors associated with infectious diseases fellowship academic success

ABSTRACT Background A multitude of factors are considered in an infectious disease (ID) training program’s meticulous selection process of ID fellows but their correlation to pre and in-fellowship academic success as well as post-fellowship academic success and short-term outcomes is poorly understood. Our goal was to investigate factors associated with subsequent academic success in fellowship as well as post-fellowship short-term outcomes. Methods In 2022, we retrospectively analyzed deidentified academic records from 39 graduates of the Mayo Clinic Rochester ID Fellowship Program (1 July 2013- 30 June 2022). Data abstracted included demographics, degrees, honor society membership, visa/citizenship status, medical school, residency training program, United States Medical Licensure Exam (USMLE) scores, letters of recommendation, in-training examination (ITE) scores, fellowship track, academic rank, career choice, number of honors, awards, and abstracts/publications prior to fellowship, during training, and within 2 years of graduation. Results Younger fellows had higher USMLE step 1 scores, pre and in-fellowship scholarly productivity, and higher ITE performance. Female fellows had significantly higher USMLE step 3 scores. Prior research experience translated to greater in-fellowship scholarly productivity. Higher USMLE scores were associated with higher ID ITE performance during multiple years of fellowship, but USMLE step 2 clinical knowledge and 3 scores were associated with higher pre and in-fellowship scholarly productivity and receiving an award during fellowship. The USMLE step 1 score did not correlate with fellowship performance beyond year 1 and 2 ITE scores. Conclusions Multiple aspects of a prospective fellow’s application must be considered as part of a holistic review process for fellowship selection. USMLE step 2 CK and 3 scores may predict fellowship performance across multiple domains.