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.     

Recording the war effort: immigrant communities in Latin America and the memory of the Great War

ABSTRACT

This paper aims to analyse the initiatives undertaken by some immigrant communities residing in Latin America to record their mobilisation around the First World War. After the armistice, European communities in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and other countries gathered detailed information about their activities during the conflict, published as profusely illustrated books of remembrance, offered to their governments as proof of their loyalty. The article intends to establish the peculiar nature of these publications as records of the war effort, and analyse the agents and processes of their elaboration, and their role as commemorative but also as archival documents.     

文献检索课网络化考核初探

通过对文献检索课考核方法的分析 ,提出网络化考核的模式 ,对所研制开发的“科技文献检索课考试管理系统”的技术实现及系统功能进行介绍     

略论谭嗣同的人格特质

谭嗣同特殊的家庭生活、丰富的社会阅历、良好的学识修养以及深刻的思想言行,展示了谭氏的恢弘气度、过人胆 略、顽强意志、强烈使命感、深厚同情心以及旺盛求知俗等主要人格特质。     

邢傲伟跳马侧手翻直体侧空翻转体810°的运动学分析

通过运动学等研究方法,揭示了我国优秀运动员邢傲伟完成的跳马侧手翻直体侧空翻转体810°的运动学规律与技术特点,对于进一步发展笠松类高难动作,提高我国男女跳马技术水平有促进作用.     

新课程设置模式下,我校滑冰课教学实践研究

结合我校冬季体育课设置新模式,通过对我校滑冰课教学的实践研究,论证冬季北方高校体育课程设置的科学性、实用性,为高校体育课程改革提供理论依据.     

影响我国少年跳高运动员成绩的技术因素分析及训练对策

采用三维摄像法对影响我国16～17岁少年男女跳高运动员成绩获得的各技术因素的运动学分析,指出了我国优秀少年跳高运动员技术水平现状和存在的问题,并提出了发展对策.     

加入世贸组织对我国体育中介市场发展的影响

通过对与体育中介经营相关的WTO规则的深层分析，多方面探讨了加入WTO对我国体育中介市场发展的影响因素，提出了体育中介组织应对国际化竞争挑战和经营发展中应注意的主要问题。