Plastic surgeons as hand surgery specialists: determinant factors of public’s perceptions

INTRODUCTION: To assess the possible determinants that lead public to choose plastic surgeons as hand surgery specialists. METHODS: General public members (n = 701) were asked to choose one or two specialists that they perceived to be an expert in 11 hand surgery-related scenarios. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were applied to assess the possible determinants (socio-demographic data, source of reported information, and previous plastic surgery contact) of public choice of plastic surgeons as experts in the hand surgery-related scenarios. RESULTS: A significantly (all p < 0.05) poor understanding of the role of plastic surgeons was seen in infectious hand injury, hand tumor, hand fracture, hand tendon injury, carpal tunnel syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis deformity, and dupuytren contracture. Age was a significant (all p < 0.05) determinant of plastic surgeon as a response pattern. CONCLUSION: Participants' age was a determinant of public choose plastic surgeons as experts in hand surgery area

O compositor em espaço cénico: estudo de alguns processos correlacionais

A presente dissertação surge no contexto da criação artística musical e pretende abranger um campo de possibilidades na exploração das relações entre os processos de composição musical e a experiência artística conduzida a partir da criação musical para as outras artes, recorrendo para tal à produção de conhecimento de significativa importância para mim no processo de coesão e competência artísticas. No contexto de processos relacionais múltiplos, é pretendido questionar dentro da criação musical, o limiar da ação ao nível do espaço, do movimento e do visual, em interligação com, entre outros, o instrumentista, o ator e o autor. Coloca-se assim em perspetiva o binómio da realidade espacial e do mundo visual, duas componentes em correlação musical. Numa atitude expansível de conhecimento e que em nada deveria ser fragmentária, como compositor, ao encontro dos meus interesses sobre a performance artística, é imperativo perceber a minha prática que coloca todas estas condicionantes em discussão, à emergência de um caminho confrontado com outros anteriormente percorridos.This thesis emerges in the context of musical and artistic creation with the intent to cover a field of possibilities for the exploration of the relationships between the processes of musical composition and artistic experience, driven from the musical creation to the other arts, producing knowledge of significant importance to me in the process of cohesion and artistic competence. In the context of multiple relational processes is intended to question the music creation, the threshold of the action in some levels like space, movement and visual, while related to, among others, the instrumentalist, the actor and author. This raises the binomial prospective of the reality space and the visual world, two components in musical correlation. With an attitude of expandable knowledge, where nothing should be fragmentary, as a composer, on the encounter to meet my interests on the artistic performance, it is imperative to understand my practice that put all these conditions under discussion

Formal training in two-dimensional standardized photographic documentation during residency in plastic surgery

Introduction: Plastic surgery requires diverse skills, knowledge, and competencies, and its scope is broad and challenging. Thus, all plastic surgeons go through extensive education/training, which begins during residency and continues throughout their lives. This study aims to outline a formal training program in 2-dimensional standardized photographic documentation ("photodocumentation") to complement surgical and scientific training during residency in Plastic Surgery. Methods: The components (strategies, topics covered, skills acquisition, and feedback processes) of training in photodocumentation during residency in Plastic Surgery were detailed. Results: Topics in the photodocumentation training program included resident activities, interactions among residents, professional photographers, and surgeons/preceptors, studio settings, cameras, lenses, principles (exposure, aperture, speed, ISO, and depth of field), lighting, preparation and positioning of patients and the camera, photoshoot conditions, photo views, photo database, image formats, computerized photogrammetry, and ethical and medical-legal issues. Conclusion: Training in photodocumentation complements the arsenal of skills needed by residents in Plastic Surgery for continuing education, in order to better prepare them for future careers

O diagrama V como ferramenta de integração analítica de conhecimentos teórico-conceituais e metodológicos na saúde

Objetivo: Produzir uma reflexão sobre a capacidade do diagrama V de integrar os conhecimentos teóricos-conceituais e metodológicos obtidos de sistemas, modelos e teorias complexas e não explicitamente identificáveis. Métodos: Estudo de reflexão com característica analítica. Resultados: Apresenta-se o diagrama V como um instrumento capaz de garantir uma análise integrada entre conhecimentos do domínio teórico-conceitual (visão de mundo e filosofia, teorias, princípios, constructos e conceitos) e a análise ou produção de conhecimentos metodológicos (registros de dados, transformações, asserções de conhecimento e asserções de valor). São usados exemplos relacionados ao Sistema Único de Saúde e atenção em Centro de Atenção Psicossocial Álcool e Drogas. Conclusões: O diagrama V é um instrumento capaz de produzir uma análise integrada dos conhecimentos contidos em produções ligadas a modelos e teorias complexas e não explicitamente identificáveis como um modelo, teoria ou referencial teórico aplicando procedimentos dedutivos e indutivos. Palavras-chave: Modelos teóricos. Conhecimento. Pesquisa em enfermagem

Formal training in scientific research increases the participation of plastic surgery residents in peer-reviewed articles

Introduction: The objectives of this study were as follows: (1) to outline a scientific research skills training program, (2) to evaluate the profile of participation of plastic surgery residents in articles, and (3) to analyze the impact of the implementation of the training program on quantitative bibliometric indexes. Methods: This was a bibliometric analysis of the participation of plastic surgery residents of a single institution in articles published in peer-reviewed journals between 2006 and 2014. The data collected were the number of authors, position of residents among authors, article titles, indexing databases and impact factor of the journals, study design, and levels of evidence. Two periods (January 2006 to January 2010 [A] and February 2010 to February 2014 [B]) were created to study the evolutionary profile of the impact of the implementation of the training program outlined in this study. Results: A significant predominance (p < 0.05) was observed among articles published in national journals in the Portuguese language and in the SciELO and LILACS databases, and articles without residents as corresponding author, without impact factor, without assumptions, and with a level of evidence III (retrospective studies). The inter-period comparative analysis revealed a significant increase (p < 0.05) in the numbers of published articles and residents with publications at the end of their residency, in the involvement of one or more residents, and in the articles published in English (period A < period B). Conclusion: The implementation of a scientific research skills training program led to an increase in research activity of (peer-reviewed articles) during the residency