Pipelines to Leadership: Strategies for Executive Board Recruitment at a Student-Run Free Clinic

Introduction/Problem: The Covid-19 pandemic placed restrictions on student-run free clinics (SRFCs) across the nation. Guidelines set forth by our medical school’s administration restricted in-person participation at our SRFC from April 2020 to March 2021 for clinical students and April 2020 to September 2021 for pre-clinical students. With medical executive board elections occurring annually in October, it was uncertain whether eligible pre-clinical students would feel confident enough in their experience to run for and fulfill the responsibilities of a board position. In this paper, we will present leadership opportunities and strategies to recruit candidates for an executive board at an SRFC. Methods/Interventions: Additional volunteer positions, including a new Assistant Clinic Manager position, were added for pre-clinical students prior to the election. Members of the clinic’s established teams, such as the Continuity of Care Team, were encouraged to run in the election. An additional board position was transitioned to a two-year position. The current board members participated in a question and answer session about their positions and informally mentored interested candidates outside of this session. Candidates’ written platforms and volunteer sign-up records were analyzed to determine the impact of these interventions. Results: Twenty-seven candidates ran for 14 board positions up for election. Fifty-six percent of the candidates were pre-clinical students, of which 47% had the opportunity to serve in the Assistant Clinic Manager position. Eighty-five percent of candidates were members of one of the clinic’s teams, and 100% of the candidates elected had previously served on a team or as a board member, which are higher percentages than in previous years. Conclusion: Despite pre-clinical students eligible to run for a board position given the opportunity of only 7 clinic days over 2 months (with a limit of one general volunteer shift per month) to serve in-person, the election attracted a similar number of candidates as previous years. In addition, candidates’ motivation to improve upon things they had been involved with at the clinic, often beyond their responsibilities on clinic day, played a large role in the 2021 election. While a variety of methods can be used to motivate volunteers to pursue executive board positions, our work shows SRFCs can offer leadership positions outside of the executive board, possibly through clinic teams, to serve as a pipeline for volunteers to pursue increasing clinic ownership and responsibilities

Artistic and Scholarly Sessions: Can a Multicellular Bacterium Prepare Students for Multiple Career Paths?

April 2, 2016; 10–10:30 am How do I support students pursuing their own unique professional goals using my discipline as a backdrop? This, for me, is the defining question for mentorship at a liberal arts institution. Three students and I will consider how collaboration in one discipline, microbiology, can shape a variety of professional trajectories. Presenters: Loralyn Cozy, Assistant Professor of Biology Rachel Ende ’16, Biology major Student Respondents: Megan Smeets ’17, Biology & Psychology double major Christina Khouri ’16, Biology & Hispanic Studies double majorhttps://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jensen_inauguration/1015/thumbnail.jp

Synchronization issues in distributed applications: definitions, problems, and quality of synchronization

In this report synchronization issues arising in distributed applications are discussed. A general and detailed introduction to the field of synchronization is provided. General terms related to synchronization as well as concepts are introduced, defined and discussed in short. The specific problem fields of synchronization in multi-party environments and in presence of control commands are introduced. A discussion of some of the numerous related work dealing with deifferent aspects of synchronization completes this introduction to synchronization. A system model is introduced that describes a communication system infrastructure being able to guarantee for end-to-end Quality of Service. The system model provides a precise description and definition of the environment and allows for the abstraction from technical details. The synchronization study of this report is based on the system model. Intra- as well as inter-stream synchronization is defined in a formal manner and their establishment and maintenance are described. Special attention is paid on distributed applications with multi-party connections as well as on control commands influencing the course of the presentation. Both issues are critical to synchronization and often not treated adequately in published work. A notion of synchronization quality is developed and defined. The notion comprises the maximum remaining asynchrony, delays, error probabilities and buffer requirements. Based on given environment and synchronization method values for the parameters of the synchronization quality are calculated. This report does not serve as a guideline for a new synchronization scheme, but presents relevant topics in the area of synchronization, provides formal definitions of synchronization and investigates, in an optimal and theoretical environment, the criteria for synchronization quality

Quality-of-Service based assessment of synchronization algorithms

In this report we present a Quality-of-Service based methodology to assess synchronization algorithms. The methodology comprises two steps: Firstly, synchrinization algorithms are analized based on a defined set of QoS parameters for synchronization algorithms. Secondly, the analysis results are evaluated. The assessment methodology is validated by applying it to two well-known algorithms. Analysis and evaluation results as well as the assessment of the two algorithms are equally presented in this report

Teaching New Technologies and Life-Long Learning Skills: A Sample Approach and Its Evaluation

Christina. B. Class studied Business Informatics at the University of Mannheim, Germany, and made her PhD in the Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. From 1999 to 2008 she was professor for computer science at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Switzerland. In 2008 she joined the computer science department at German Jordanian University in Amman, Jordan. Dr. Class has several certificates and degrees in computer science didactics. ([email protected]

Das Projekt MoVeKI2EAH: KI-Lehre für angewandte Wissenschaften

Inhalt: KI-Lehrbaukasten; Aktuelle Petition: KI-Forschung soll pausiert werden; Das Projektteam; Inhalte und Ziele des Projekts; Anpassbare Lehrpfade & HPC-Cluster; Beispiel eines Lehrbausteins; "KI und Ethik" in MoVeKI2EAH; DS und KI in den Wissenschafte

Design and Evaluation of an Instructional Solar Energy Technologies Lab

This paper presents a design for a solar energy lab that allows students to plan, install and evaluate different system architectures and gain relevant practical experiences. The addressed learning outcomes are analyzed based on the 13 learning outcomes defined by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) as well as based on the taxonomy levels of the cognitive domain after Bloom. In this paper we present a sample lab assignment and map its tasks to the learning outcomes and cognitive domains. First results of qualitative student feedback are equally presented