Interpretive phenomenological analysis of the interplay of factors affecting burnout in academic medical faculty.

This dissertation examines burnout in academic medical faculty. The medical literature reports 30-45% of physicians are burned out and presents a long list of potential drivers of burnout. Interventions have shown limited success at the individual level and greater success at the organizational level, but large-scale interventions are typically time- and cost-intensive. Using the Job Demands-Resources Model (JD-R) and interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA), this study seeks to present the ways personal, interpersonal, and job characteristics are interpreted as demands or resources by faculty and how those demands and resources work together to drive or mitigate burnout. Over six chapters, this paper summarizes current literature; discusses assumptions, methodologies, and models; answers three research questions; and positions results within current theory, methods, and practice. Chapter 1 presents a brief overview of the study, including burnout and higher educational theory. The history and context of burnout research, including its growth in medical literature, are summarized in Chapter 2, along with a case for qualitative methodologies. IPA and study methodologies are discussed in additional detail in Chapter 3. Results are divided into two sections – Chapters 4 and 5 – to explore the depth and richness of each research question. Chapter 4 presents faculty definitions of burnout as well as their opinions about their own burnout. Additionally, academic medical faculty interpretations of personal, interpersonal, and job demands and resources are described. Chapter 5 examines the interplay of these demands and resources between practice settings, specialties, and job roles, in addition to comparison by self-reported burnout level. Using dominant themes and their informant characteristics, a model for the pathophysiology of burnout is proposed. The main themes in this model are expected to transfer between settings, though the unique sub-themes should differ based on context. Chapter 6 ties the main themes of the model to existing burnout, higher education, and JD-R literature, further making the argument for the validity of the proposed model. Four specific action areas are proposed – barriers to productivity, workload, and climate; collegial culture, leadership, and faculty support; recognition; and existing coping mechanisms – with specific recommendations from the literature

Your Journey to First-Year Success: A K-State First Companion Textbook

This textbook companion is a resource to help students successfully navigate through their first year at Kansas State University. It serves as part of the K-State First mission to create an outstanding university experience for every first-year student by helping with the transition to college-level learning and college life. The textbook helps improve chances for student success by focusing on fostering campus community, offering resources for diverse activities, highlighting academic expectations, and empowering students with personal responsibility and social agency. Instructors are encouraged to use the textbook in their K-State First classes, and it is also offered as a direct resource for students. In any university setting there are often unwritten rules that students are expected to understand, and this guide addresses and answers those questions directly. Ultimately, this guide encourages students to be engaged learners and to enjoy all facets of education, both inside and outside the classroom.https://newprairiepress.org/ebooks/1019/thumbnail.jp

WSCLEAN: an implementation of a fast, generic wide-field imager for radio astronomy

Astronomical wide-field imaging of interferometric radio data is computationally expensive, especially for the large data volumes created by modern non-coplanar many-element arrays. We present a new wide-field interferometric imager that uses the w-stacking algorithm and can make use of the w-snapshot algorithm. The performance dependences of CASA's w-projection and our new imager are analysed and analytical functions are derived that describe the required computing cost for both imagers. On data from the Murchison Widefield Array, we find our new method to be an order of magnitude faster than w-projection, as well as being capable of full-sky imaging at full resolution and with correct polarization correction. We predict the computing costs for several other arrays and estimate that our imager is a factor of 2-12 faster, depending on the array configuration. We estimate the computing cost for imaging the lowfrequency Square Kilometre Array observations to be 60 PetaFLOPS with current techniques. We find that combining w-stacking with the w-snapshot algorithm does not significantly improve computing requirements over pure w-stacking. The source code of our new imager is publicly released

The MWA GLEAM 4Jy Sample; a new large, bright radio source sample at 151 MHz

C.A. Jackson, T.M.O. Franzen, N. Seymour, S.V. White, Tara Murphy, E.M. Sadler, J.R. Callingham, R.W. Hunstead, J. Hughes, J.V. Wall, M.E. Bell, K.S. Dwarakanath, B.Q. For, B.M. Gaensler, P.J. Hancock, L, Hindson, N. Hurley-Walker, M. Johnston-Hollitt, A.D. Kapinska, E. Lenc, B. McKinley, J. Morgan, A.R. Offringa, P. Procopio, L. Staveley-Smith, R.B. Wayth, C. Wu, Q. Zheng, ‘The MWA GLEAM 4Jy Sample; a new large, bright radio source sample at 151 MHz’, paper presented at The Many Facests of Extragalactiv Radio Surveys: Towards New Scientific Challenges, Bologna, Italy, 20-23 October, 2015.This paper outlines how the new GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA Survey (GLEAM, Wayth et al. 2015), observed by the Murchison Widefield Array covering the frequency range 72 - 231 MHz, allows identification of a new large, complete, sample of more than 2000 bright extragalactic radio sources selected at 151 MHz. With a flux density limit of 4 Jy this sample is significantly larger than the canonical fully-complete sample, 3CRR (Laing, Riley & Longair 1983). In analysing this small bright subset of the GLEAM survey we are also providing a first user check of the GLEAM catalogue ahead of its public release (Hurley-Walker et al. in prep). Whilst significant work remains to fully characterise our new bright source sample, in time it will provide important constraints to evolutionary behaviour, across a wide redshift and intrinsic radio power range, as well as being highly complementary to results from targeted, small area surveys.Non peer reviewe

Low-Frequency Spectral Energy Distributions of Radio Pulsars Detected with the Murchison Widefield Array

We present low-frequency spectral energy distributions of 60 known radio pulsars observed with the Murchison Widefield Array telescope. We searched the GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky Murchison Widefield Array survey images for 200-MHz continuum radio emission at the position of all pulsars in the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) pulsar catalogue. For the 60 confirmed detections, we have measured flux densities in 20 × 8 MHz bands between 72 and 231 MHz. We compare our results to existing measurements and show that the Murchison Widefield Array flux densities are in good agreement

Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Society of Sports Nutrition (ISSN) Conference and Expo

Meeting Abstracts: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Society of Sports Nutrition (ISSN) Conference and Expo Clearwater Beach, FL, USA. 9-11 June 201

Long term mortality in burn injury survivors: a matched cohort study

Background: Survivors of burn injuries may be at risk of early death. This study describes the mortality of burn survivors in comparison with two matched cohorts. Methods: This retrospective cohort study compared adults admitted with a burn injury from 2009 to 2019 with two matched cohorts; one from the general population and one with a diagnosis of acute pancreatitis. Patients were excluded from analysis if they died during hospital admission or within 90 days of hospital discharge. Cox proportional hazards models were used to explore differences between cohorts and variables associated with mortality. Results: 7,147 burns patients were matched with 6,810 pancreatitis patients and 28,184 individuals from the general population. Patients with a burn injury had an increased risk of death when compared to the general population (HR 2.46, 95 % CI 2.28,2.66, p < 0.001) and those with acute pancreatitis (HR 1.28, 95 % CI 1.17,1.40, p < 0.001). Socioeconomic deprivation, increasing comorbidity and specific comorbidities such as alcohol, drug abuse and depression were also associated with increased mortality. Conclusion: Survivors of burn injury are at increased risk of mortality compared to individuals matched on sex, age and socioeconomic deprivation in both the general population and with a hospital admission due to acute pancreatitis