Association Between Workplace-Based Assessments and Self-Assessment of Entrustment

Purpose: Optimal implementation of Entrustable Professional Activities (EPA)-based curriculum requires direct observation using workplace-based assessments (WBA) coupled with a longitudinal coaching relationship between learners and faculty. Students should be engaged and considered an active participant in the entrustment decision. As part of our engagement with the AAMC Core EPA pilot, we implemented both a WBA using the Otawa Clinic Assessment Tool (OCAT) and a coaching program for our medical students in 2018-2019. We measured the association between WBAs collected during the clinical clerkships and student self-assessment. Coaches were selected from currently designated small group advisors and trained on the EPAs and the coaching conversation. Coaches and students were not assigned based upon specialty interest. Each coach worked with 8-10 students

Analysis of three basal series of arithmetic textbooks for their fractional content

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Considerations regarding the Performance Improvement of the Hospital Healthcare Services from Romania by the Implementation of an Integrated Management System

The continuous quality improvement is an obligatory condition for the achievement and maintaining of the performance in healthcare services. Introducing the concepts of quality improvement in medical practice represents a distinctive component of the hospital reform in Romania. Healthcare quality is a more important principle in sanitary field, because the level of patients ‘knowledge is increasing concomitantly with the technological and therapeutic progresses. The continuous quality improvement is an obligatory condition for the achievement and maintaining the performance in healthcare organization, especially in hospital. The integration of many management systems (quality management, environmental management, security and occupational health management, information security management) and the development of an integrated management model applicable to Romanian hospitals, which have as principal goal to improve the performance of health services, represent a challenge for the Romanian health system. An integrated management system is a logical and systematic managerial approach, which permits taking-up optimum strategic and operational decisions. These decisions take into consideration all the essential aspects which lead to an efficient functionality of health organization, in terms of quality, environment, security and occupational health, and information security.healthcare, hospital, quality, integrated management system

Mutations in the Foodstuff Quality Perception of the New Consumers in Romania

In the current context of the market, very complex and dynamic, we can observe the crystallization of a new generation of consumers, with a specific behavior and a particular manner of approaching the quality unlike the one of traditional consumer. The concept of quality, perceived by the traditional consumer in the classical, deterministic and objective sense, loses its facets nowadays and transcends into another dimension, in the vision of the new consumer, in which the perception of quality in a predominantly subjective manner, comes first. This paper presents the objectives of a research project that we intend to develop, in order to highlight the mutations that occurred in the foodstuff quality perception of the new consumers from Romania. We focused on foodstuff because it is a customary part of our daily lives, that shouldn’t be approached merely as a common factor for meeting physiological needs of macro and micro-nutrients, but from a holistic perspective in terms of its social and identity functions and the effects on individual health. Another important goal of the project is to improve the standard of education and culture in foodstuff consumption and to give to the new consumers from Romania the skills for an objective assessment of food quality. We believe that all these could lead to the conversion of the new consumers of foodstuff in ethical and responsible consumers.new consumer, quality perception, mutations, foodstuff, ethical consumerism

Do you ever grow out of digital parenting?

Lelia Green takes a closer look at how parents’ attitudes to children’s digital media use change as they move towards adulthood. Lelia is Professor of Communications in the School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. Her current research investigates the different influences of parents and peers on young people’s internet use

Management of fruit species in urban home gardens of Argentina Atlantic Forest as an influence for landscape domestication

Home gardens are considered germplasm repositories and places for experimentation, thus they are key sites for the domestication of plants. Domestication is considered a constant process that occurs along a continuum from wild to managed to domesticated populations. Management may lead to the modification of populations and in other cases to their distribution, changing population structure in a landscape. Our objective is focused on the management received in home gardens by perennial species of fruits. For this, the management practices applied to native and exotic perennial fruits species by a group of 20 women in the periurban zone of Iguazú, Argentina, were analyzed. In-depth interviews were conducted, as well as guided tours for the recognition and collection of specimens of species and ethnovarieties. Sixty-six fruit species managed in the home gardens were recorded. The predominant families are Rutaceae, Myrtaceae, and Rosaceae. The fruit species with the highest number of associated management practices are pitanga (Eugenia uniflora) and pindó (Syagrus rommanzoffiana). The 10 species with the highest management intensity are (in decreasing order of intensity) banana (Musa x paradisiaca), palta (Persea americana), pitanga (E. uniflora), mango (Mangifera indica), cocú (Allophylus edulis), mamón (Carica papaya), guayaba (Psidium guajava), limón mandarina (Citrus x taitensis), güembé (Philodendron bipinnatifidum), and mandarina (Citrus reticulata). Among the families with the greatest modifications in their distribution, abundance and presence of ethnovarieties in domestic gardens, are the native Myrtaceae and the exotic Rutaceae. The main management practices involved are cultivation, tolerance, transplant and enhancement in decreasing order. It can be concluded that in Iguazú, fruit species management shows both in plant germplasm as in environment a continuum that through tolerance, transplant and cultivation latu sensu has derived in a mosaic of species in different management situations, which in turn are representative of an anthropogenic landscape in constant domestication and change.Fil: Furlan, Violeta. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Nordeste. Instituto de Biología Subtropical. Instituto de Biología Subtropical - Nodo Puerto Iguazú | Universidad Nacional de Misiones. Instituto de Biología Subtropical. Instituto de Biología Subtropical - Nodo Puerto Iguazú; Argentina. Centro de Investigaciones del Bosque Atlántico; ArgentinaFil: Pochettino, María Lelia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. Laboratorio de Etnobotánica y Botánica Aplicada; ArgentinaFil: Hilgert, Norma Ines. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de la Plata; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Nordeste. Instituto de Biología Subtropical. Instituto de Biología Subtropical - Nodo Puerto Iguazú | Universidad Nacional de Misiones. Instituto de Biología Subtropical. Instituto de Biología Subtropical - Nodo Puerto Iguazú; Argentin

“Generation M” for mobile: what does growing-up digitally mean?

Lelia Green, Professor of Communications at Edith Cowan University in Australia spoke at the 2014 Safer Internet Forum: Growing-up Digitally, which was held in Brussels on 6 and 7 November. Her presentation to the conference has been adapted for this blog

Cottolengo Don Orione: programa multidisciplinar para la promoción de competencias educativas y sociolaborales en alumnos con necesidades educativas especiales (RENOVACIÓN)

Este proyecto pretende involucrar al estudiante universitario como protagonista principal del proceso de aprendizaje - servicio, haciéndolo partícipe de todas las actividades involucradas en el proyecto: diagnóstico, acción, reflexión, registro, comunicación y evaluación, a través de la vinculación entre la investigación y la proyección social. En cuanto a los miembros del Cottolengo, se espera mejorar la calidad de vida y la administración de los recursos, de modo que se generen actividades productivas sostenidas en el tiempo. Este modelo de sustentabilidad se desarrolla en paralelo al académico - formativo del Cottolengo, favoreciendo las capacidades y competencias para una posible inserción laboral de los beneficiarios. Se pretende además, avanzar en el aprendizaje interdisciplinario, así como también, el aprendizaje a través de herramientas virtuales (uso de TIC´s compartidas), no sólo para profundizar en la búsqueda de conocimientos propios a cada cátedra, sino para generar redes de conocimiento, formación y comunicación entre las cátedras involucradas. Los tres ejes de actividades que se desarrollan son: la huerta, el cálculo de los costos de producción y comercialización para la definición de precios, y el apoyo en la escuela en la implementación de talleres para los alumnos con necesidades educativas especiales