Winter anthropology in Finland: Exploring ‘green care’ in low light

This photo essay discusses some of the methodological issues for medical anthropology in the environmental human health sector, particularly, how season and latitude shape the types of anthropology that can be employed, the activities that can be undertaken, and their aesthetic effect on visual ethnography. The essay recounts the author’s experiences conducting ethnographic studies in the winter months in Finland and discusses the various challenges that environmental conditions produce for researchers.</jats:p

The Role of Pedagogy in Clinical Education

This chapter introduces the role of pedagogy in the tuition of clinical subjects. After which an overview of the two types of pedagogy that underpin it are explained. Research on the role and function of pedagogy in clinical subjects is in its infancy; as such, different examples of approaches are presented. Specifically, I look at public health, Widening Participation and Public and Patient Involvement (PPI). The chapter will highlight that there is a need for more academic work that investigates the role pedagogy plays in clinical subjects. In short, despite that fact that there is a pressing need in most Western countries to train clinical staff, there is an unfortunate lack of pragmatic texts in all areas of clinical education. By highlighting what publications exist, I hope to instigate discussions about the type of publication and style of approaches that are required for the study of medical pedagogies. Because of the variety of stakeholders involved in medical education, not all will uniformly accept new approaches to pedagogy, causing possible tensions. This chapter covers pedagogies relevant to allied healthcare education. Its content may be of interest to tutors who want to know more about clinical pedagogy and curriculum design

The semiotics of minority language branding: A study of the Celtic languages

This paper investigates the role of minority language commodification in alcoholic drinks' branding, with a specific focus on Celtic languages and a particular emphasis on Cornish. The topic is introduced by exploring the ongoing and significant connection between language, culture and food, taking phrases and rhymes from historical sources and comparing their use. The aim is to establish cross-disciplinary synergies between semiotics and cultural analysis and to shed new light on marketing issues in the alcoholic drinks sector. The methodology section features the first ever analysis of alcoholic drinks' labels from four Celtic national minorities (N = 1.937) that illustrates what proportion of labels exists in each minority's language. The paper further explores unique branding positions in relation to the marketing theory of positionality, and positional innovation. It concludes with a discussion of Spolsky and Cooper's (1991) third sign rule and the concept of linguistic landscapes in relation to alcoholic drinks' labelling

Can semiotics be used to drive paradigm changes in medical education?

This essay sets out to explain how educational semiotics as a discipline can be used to reform medical education and assessment. This is in response to an ongoing paradigm shift in medical education and assessment that seeks to integrate more qualitative, ethical and professional aspects of medicine into curricula, and develop ways to assess them. This paper suggests that a method to drive this paradigm change might be found in the Peircean idea of suprasubjectivity. This semiotic concept is rooted in the scholastic philosophy of John of St Thomas, but has been reintroduced to modern semiotics through the works of John Deely, Alin Olteanu and, most notably, Charles Sanders Peirce. I approach this task as both a medical educator and a semiotician. In this paper, I provide background information about medical education, paradigm shifts, and the concept of suprasubjectivity in relation to modern educational semiotic literature. I conclude by giving examples of what a suprasubjective approach to medical education and assessment might look like. I do this by drawing an equivalence between the notion of threshold concepts and suprasubjectivity, demonstrating the similarities between their positions. Fundamentally, medical education suffers from tensions of teaching trainee doctors the correct balance of biological science and situational ethics/ judgement. In the transcendence of mind-dependent and mind-independent being the scholastic philosophy of John of St Thomas may be exactly the solution medicine needs to overcome this dichotomy.</jats:p

Between Arts and Biological Science. Green Technology and the Concept of Phytomining

This project represents an iterative series of concepts, models, and installations around Anthropocenic thought which culminates in design ideas for the creation of a functional environmental remediation system

Implementing medical revalidation in the United Kingdom: Findings about organisational changes and impacts from a survey of Responsible Officers.

Objective To describe the implementation of medical revalidation in healthcare organisations in the United Kingdom and to examine reported changes and impacts on the quality of care. Design A cross-sectional online survey gathering both quantitative and qualitative data about structures and processes for medical revalidation and wider quality management in the organisations which employ or contract with doctors (termed 'designated bodies') from the senior doctor in each organisation with statutory responsibility for medical revalidation (termed the 'Responsible Officer'). Setting United Kingdom Participants Responsible Officers in designated bodies in the United Kingdom. Five hundred and ninety-five survey invitations were sent and 374 completed surveys were returned (63%). Main outcome measures The role of Responsible Officers, the development of organisational mechanisms for quality assurance or improvement, decision-making on revalidation recommendations, impact of revalidation and mechanisms for quality assurance or improvement on clinical practice and suggested improvements to revalidation arrangements. Results Responsible Officers report that revalidation has had some impacts on the way medical performance is assured and improved, particularly strengthening appraisal and oversight of quality within organisations and having some impact on clinical practice. They suggest changes to make revalidation less 'one size fits all' and more responsive to individual, organisational and professional contexts. Conclusions Revalidation appears primarily to have improved systems for quality improvement and the management of poor performance to date. There is more to be done to ensure it produces wider benefits, particularly in relation to doctors who already perform well

The Ursinus Weekly, February 17, 1941

Besse Howard will lead Wed. forum on pan- America • Bomberger committee will present Kathryn Boghetti in concert Thursday • Agan selects Arnold as junior prom chairman for formal on April 18 • Bear quintet in early season form defeat favored Muhlenberg, 43-41 • Juniors receive copies of class paper tonight • All-U conference and student service drive discussed at Y retreat • Women hold upper hand as Lorelei nears • Lincoln University will lead February 23 vespers • Showalter puts \u27Lantern\u27 deadline at February 21 • Dean Hitchler to speak tonight to law students • Hemisphere union debated by women at Wagner, Rutgers • French Club to see movie • Sturges to review Masefield • Schonfeld to discuss sports • Abstract from Hartley Simpson\u27s book review of Dr. N. E. McClure\u27s Letters of John Chamberlain • Amazons swamp Drexel and take Penn, but fall before ex-mates • High-scoring Lions hand grizzlies a drubbing, 57-35 • Kellettmen bow before last minute spurt of Mule frosh • MacMahon and Barab lead scoring parades • Rutgers pins bears by 29-10 victory • Albright freshmen beat cubs in 38-37 thriller Wednesday • Johnson releases 1941 Ursinus football card • Y committee to sponsor card party this Saturday • Prof. Michael conducts survey of 1940 class • Mr. Sheeder to publish survey article in registrars\u27 publication • Jackson tells of attorneys\u27 experiences with inventions • Men debaters travel to western part of the state • Thomas Schonfeld speaks before IRC meeting • Miss Spangler leads Valley Forge choir in Wayne recital • TKA to induct new members with banquet and contest • Hartman, Robbins in radio debate on isms question • Wagner receives Doctor of Philosophy degree at Pennhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1808/thumbnail.jp