Adaptive designs for sequential experiments

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Nurse Research Rounds: In the Spirit of Inquiry

Nurses deliver a point-of-care service to patients. The nursing staff work extensive schedules and do not have time to research a clinical question to help support patient care. This article describes the implementation of the first research service that supports evidence-based practice at Georgia’s second largest hospital. Inspired by a similar service at a children’s hospital in 2014, the first year of nurse research rounds provides clinicians a new research service in their clinical setting.     

Walk-In Triage Systems in University Counseling Centers

To meet the complex mental health needs of students, some university counseling centers (UCCs) have implemented walk-in triage intake systems, which have not yet been empirically investigated. This study compared client and clinician differences (N = 5564) between a traditional scheduled intake system (Year 1) and a walk-in triage system (Year 2) at a large, southeastern UCC. Results showed a significant increase in clients’ attendance rates and clinicians’ caseloads, a significant decrease in no-show rates, and no change in students’ symptom severity at intake between Years 1 and 2. Clinicians’ number of scheduled appointments were unchanged, indicating that clinicians were already at maximum capacity for appointments in Year 1. Results are discussed in terms of the benefits and challenges that walk-in triage systems present to students, universities, and UCCs.     

如何提高“四证合一”时代临床专业硕士的培养水平

本文从实际情况出发,对于“四证合一”时代下临床医学专业硕士的培养从三大方面提出建设性意见,既与住院医师规范化培养不起时间上冲突,也不增加学生过多负担;既有利于临床专科实践与理论相结合,也教授学生科研思维和方法,对做好临床的医、教、研工作有一定意义。     

Student Writing in Social Work

Social work professors are frequently disappointed with the writing their students produce bumt feel unsure about how improvements can be made. Unfortunately, the social work literature does not shed much light on the problem of student writing. This exploratory study suggests a model that established a rationale for writing improvement, provides writing opportunities within non-threatening classroom environments, helps students during the writing process, and promotes explicit grading criteria. Preliminary findings suggest that with this model students may lower their writing anxiety, and professors could spend less time grading papers.     

Establishing the need for health communication research: best practices model for building transdisciplinary collaborations

The benefits of transdisciplinary collaboration for addressing complex health problems are widely accepted; however, acknowledging the bumps and twists along the road that are inherent in those collaborations is often considered taboo. Academic norms that prevent open discussion of these challenges can have counter-productive results. This essay describes the major education efforts, milestones, and footfalls in the development of an effective partnership between communication-trained researchers in a College of Journalism and Communications and medical researchers in a College of Medicine. We hope it can serve as “best practice” for understanding the value of team science and interdisciplinary research collaborations.     

Experiences of master’s students regarding clinical supervision in an applied psychology programme in South Africa

This study explored and described the experiences regarding clinical supervision of master’s students in professional psychology programmes in South Africa. Four participants were purposively selected from four different universities. The participants engaged in reflective writings and in-depth interviews over a one-year span. Data were analysed through interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). Findings indicated that supervision, as compulsory pedagogical activity for these students, serves an essential purpose, as it was identified as the main contributor towards their professional developmental journeys. Interpretation of the findings yielded themes of significance across cases. Identified themes are emotional support, self-acceptance, autonomy and personal growth. Themes were contextualise within broader educational theories as well as within professional career developmental theory in psychology. While becoming a psychologist is known to be a difficult journey, the results indicated that it can also be rewarding, and holds the potential to enhance growth which can be unlocked by the supervisory relationship.     

Features and strategies of supervisor professional community as a means of improving the supervision of preservice teachers

This article explores whether features associated with effective professional communities among K-12 teachers are relevant and sufficient for improving the practice of supervisors in teacher education programs. Interview and observational data from nineteen supervisors in one teacher education program illuminate what supervisors want in order to improve their professional practices and how their needs could be met through ongoing collaboration. The article proposes five features of professional communities that can help supervisors improve their work: norms promoting collaboration; trust and familiarity; activities deprivatizing practices; access to logistical information and shared expectations about the role of supervisors; and time for collaboration.     

立足学科建设 发挥学会优势——《中国肿瘤临床》内容质量建设实践

【目的】探索内容质量建设的有效途径,为国内期刊提供参考与借鉴。【方法】以《中国肿瘤临床》为例,介绍其立足学科建设、发挥学会优势、加强优秀选题与组稿等一系列举措,总结经验与体会。【结果】《中国肿瘤临床》的内容质量与学术影响力得到显著提升,分别于2013年与2015年获得中国科协精品科技期刊项目资助。【结论】内容质量是期刊发展的基石与核心,科技期刊应积极研究与开拓,调动一切有利资源,打造学术精品。     

卓越之道:学科交叉与群体智慧——"哈佛催化剂"个案研究及启示

转化医学研究与实践为学科交叉渗透、群体智慧聚集提供了理想的平台和机遇。通过详细分析哈佛催化剂的产生背景、运作模式、研究内容以及人才水平,提示国内一批重点高校在向世界一流大学迈进的过程中,转化医学是一个非常值得重视的研究领域。促使科研选题来源于临床、完善相关体制、保证跨学科研究团队的稳定性是促进我国转化医学研究的有效途径。