Surgeons as medical school educators: an untapped resource

Despite extensive experience teaching residents, surgeons are an untapped resource for educating medical students. We hypothesized that by involving surgeons as teachers earlier in the medical school curriculum, medical students' interest in surgery will increase and their opinions of surgeons will improve. Five programs designed to involve surgeons as educators in the medical school curriculum were implemented. The first program, started in 2008, introduced surgical faculty into the first-year medical student anatomy dissection laboratories. Other programs initiated in 2008 included: Surgical Clinical Correlates in Anatomy, which involved faculty teaching through cadaver surgery; Clinical Pathologic Conferences in Anatomy, a surgeon-led conference based on clinical cases; and a women's faculty-student mentorship program. Table Rounds, a surgeon-led anatomy review that used clinical scenarios to quiz students was begun in 2009. All five programs were successfully integrated into the medical school curriculum. While student opinion of surgeons as educators improved, there were no significant changes in student interest in surgery as a career nor change in performance on written examinations over the Anatomy content covered by the surgeons. Surgical faculty and trainees can be integrated into the medical school curriculum. Involving surgeons as educators earlier in the medical school curriculum may have longer term effects than could be observed in this study. At a minimum, the experience improved student opinion of surgeons as educators.     

Harnessing technology to improve formative assessment of student conceptions in STEM: forging a national network

Concept inventories, consisting of multiple-choice questions designed around common student misconceptions, are designed to reveal student thinking. However, students often have complex, heterogeneous ideas about scientific concepts. Constructed-response assessments, in which students must create their own answer, may better reveal students' thinking, but are time- and resource-intensive to evaluate. This report describes the initial meeting of a National Science Foundation-funded cross-institutional collaboration of interdisciplinary science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education researchers interested in exploring the use of automated text analysis to evaluate constructed-response assessments. Participants at the meeting shared existing work on lexical analysis and concept inventories, participated in technology demonstrations and workshops, and discussed research goals. We are seeking interested collaborators to join our research community.     

Medical students' attitudes toward the anatomy dissection room in relation to personality

Assessment of the personalities of medical students could enable medical educators to formulate strategies for the best development of academic and clinical competencies. In this article, we focus on the experience of students in the anatomy dissecting room. While there have been many attempts to evaluate the emotional responses of medical students to human cadaveric dissection, there has been no investigation into how different personality traits affect the responses. The main hypothesis tested was that there is a relationship between personality traits and attitudes toward the dissection room. For the present study, a group of French medical students (n = 403; mean age 21.3 ± 1.6; 65.3% female) completed a "Big Five" personality inventory and a questionnaire to assess their attitudes in regard to human dissection. The findings are consistent with our hypothesis, in that we found a relationship between reporting anxiety and four of the "Big Five" dimensions (all except openness). The rated level of anxiety was positively correlated with negative affectivity, more strongly at the beginning than at the end of the course. There were significant gender differences in attitudes toward dissection. The findings are discussed in relation to the possibility of preparing students for the dissecting room experience and also in relation to the students' understanding of mortality issues.     

教育数据挖掘工具综述

数据挖掘拥有悠久的历史,它可以追溯到探索性数据分析(Tukey, 1977),且目前已经形成了有效的、可推广的方法.本文将讨论教育数据挖掘研究与实践中逐渐兴起的一些工具,以及在更广泛的层面上数据挖掘和数据科学研究者所使用的相关工具,近40种教育领域数据挖掘与分析的常用工具,包括数据处理与特征工程工具、算法分析工具、可视化效果工具,以及EDM和LA的特殊应用,如贝叶斯知识跟踪工具、文本挖掘、社会网络分析、过程与序列挖掘、PSLC服务站等.本文将为初次接触这一领域的研究者提供有用的信息,以帮助他们找到有用的工具.     

新疆普通高校体育教学现状调查

采用问卷调查法等对新疆普通高校体育教学模式、教学大纲、课程设置、教师队伍、教材使用、体质健康标准的实施现状等进行调查。调查显示,教师专业结构不合理,教学与科研不能协调发展,体育教师的待遇与工作负荷不成正比。具有地方特色、民族特色、学校特色的体育教改新思路在新疆普通高校逐渐兴起。建议:加强对体育教师的专业培训;在教学中注重培养学生终身体育观念,培养学生积极健身意识;要充分体现民族体育和现代体育的有机结合,开展具有少数民族体育特色的教学活动。     

Whole-body predictors of wrist shot accuracy in ice hockey: a kinematic analysis

The purpose of this study was to identify joint angular kinematics that corresponds to shooting accuracy in the stationary ice hockey wrist shot. Twenty-four subjects participated in this study, each performing 10 successful shots on four shooting targets. An eight-camera infra-red motion capture system (240 Hz), along with passive reflective markers, was used to record motion of the joints, hockey stick, and puck throughout the performance of the wrist shot. A multiple regression analysis was carried out to examine whole-body kinematic variables with accuracy scores as the dependent variable. Significant accuracy predictors were identified in the lower limbs, torso and upper limbs. Interpretation of the kinematics suggests that characteristics such as a better stability of the base of support, momentum cancellation, proper trunk orientation and a more dynamic control of the lead arm throughout the wrist shot movement are presented as predictors for the accuracy outcome. These findings are substantial as they not only provide a framework for further analysis of motor control strategies using tools for accurate projection of objects, but more tangibly they may provide a comprehensive evidence-based guide to coaches and athletes for planned training to improve performance.     

专家邮箱

鱼跃救球靠谱吗?看到职业选手飞身鱼跃救球的动作太帅了,我也想学学,但是找不到这方面的教程,同时也有些担心,怕动作不对把自己给摔坏了,或者把球拍摔坏了也不好。请问如何鱼跃救球,或者直接告诉我,菜鸟用鱼跃救球靠谱吗?     

澳网的启示

2011年的澳网依旧没有迎来一位新的大满贯冠军,但这并不意味着网球的世界没有因它而改变。弥漫在墨尔本公园两周的硝烟已经散去,澳网带给我们的启示却依旧在延续。     

胡安·马丁·德尔·波特罗双手反拍赏析

1无论是采用关闭式站位还是开放式站位打双手反拍,就像德尔·波特罗在这里所展示的这样,你必须要做两件事情：分开和准备。在你的身体和双手间留出适当的空间,并不需要什么特殊的距离,只要确保你处于舒服和放松的状态就行——紧张的肌肉会制造出僵硬的击球。准备,指的是在球拍和步法上的简单的调整。     

伟大的正手：费德勒vs纳达尔（下）

是哪些因素造就了网坛巨星费德勒和纳达尔的伟大正手？他们的正手击球有着怎么样的相同和不同之处？业余选手以及职业选手又能从他们的正手技术中学到哪些东西呢？我采访了网球频道著名网球技术分析员吉梅尔斯托布先生。所提出的问题,都是基于这两个历史上最具毁灭性击球围绕展开的。吉梅尔斯托布,与维纳斯·威廉姆斯获得1998年澳大利亚网球公开赛和法国网球公开赛混合双打冠军,前美国戴维斯杯队员,对网球运动有着深入的了解,在巡回赛中曾数次与两位巨星交手。