The Unintentional Effects on Body Donation Programs of a Competency-Based Curriculum in Postgraduate Medical Education

As medical programs place increasing importance on competency-based training and surgical simulations for residents, anatomy laboratories, and body donation programs find themselves in a position of adapting to changing demands. To better assess the demand for “life-like” cadaveric specimens and evaluate the possible impacts that competency-based medical education could have upon the body donation program of McGill University, Canada, the authors tracked, over the course of the last 10 years, the number of soft-embalmed specimens, along with the number of teaching sessions and the residents enrolled in competency-based programs that are using cadaveric material. The results reveal that the number of soft-embalmed specimens used within residency training increased from 5 in 2009 to 35 in 2019, representing an increase from 6% of bodies to 36.5% of the total number of body donors embalmed in this institution. Correspondingly, the number of annual teaching sessions for residents increased from 19 in 2012 to 116 in 2019. These increases in teaching are correlated with increasing number of residents enrolled in competency-based programs over the last 3 years (Pearson r ranging from 0.9705 to 0.9903, and R² ranging from 0.9418 to 0.9808). Those results suggest that the new skill-centered curricula which require residents to perform specific tasks within realistic settings, exhibit a growing demand for “life-like” cadaveric specimens. Institutions’ body donation programs must, therefore, adapt to those greater need for cadaveric specimens, which presents many challenges, ranging from the logistical to the ethical.     

乡村振兴背景下发展农村社区教育的问题与对策

当前,社会经济在快速发展,但是目前我国农村国民的文化素质却没有表现出相应的提高.一直以来,我国农村人口在总人口中占比较重,为了提高我国农民的整体文化素质,以进一步提高我国国民的整体素养,国家大力发展继续教育,畅通继续教育的通道.本文针对大力发展农村社区教育的意义以及在农村社区继续教育过程中存在的问题展开研究分析,更多地剖析其中存在的问题,为我国目前农村社区教育添砖加瓦,促进农村社区教育更好地发展.     

The resilience of scientific publication: From elite ancient academies to open access

• Scientific publication has been a key part of the scientific method since the inception of Philosophical Transactions in 1665.
• The scientific publications industry has grown exponentially along with science, incorporating technological innovations along the way, and adapting journal processes and practices to changing needs of science as it matured.
• Of all the technological innovations over more than 300 years, the move to online journals may be the most significant, making open access to content practical for the first time.
• The open‐access movement is disrupting the economics of journal publishing, which is hoped will make the industry more competitive: the ability of the publications industry to adapt to open access will be a measure of its resilience.
• The demand for articles published in reputable journals continues to grow as readers trust the credibility of peer reviewed journal articles, and good authors value the prestige of publishing in the best journals.
• It is difficult to predict what new functionalities may be included in articles of the future or what additional services publishers and editors will provide, but there is every reason to believe that scientific journal articles are here to stay.

     

韩国电子竞技发展的特点及其对我国的启示

通过对韩国电子竞技的发展及现状进行研究分析,发现其主要得益于政府政策的大力扶植;良好的社会群众基础;优秀的人才培养体系;媒体、企业的大力支持等。同时为我国电子竞技日后的良好发展提出以下建议:制定相关政策法规,加大政府对电竞的支持度;创设良好的舆论氛围,增强社会对电竞的认可度;完善人才培养体系,为电竞发展输送优质人才;加强媒体正面报道,吸引大型企业的资金帮助。     

Constructing inside-ness to physics: how matter comes to matter in physics identity work

Cultural Studies of Science Education - In this paper, I engage with arguments put forth by Anna Günther-Hanssen in her article “A swing and a child: How scientific phenomena can come to...