Effectiveness of the Travelers Summer Research Fellowship Program in Preparing Premedical Students for a Career in Medicine

This study measured the effectiveness of the Travelers Summer Research Fellowship (T-SRF) Program for Premedical Students. No in-depth study has been conducted on the impact of its activities. A program-oriented qualitative summative evaluation approach and a logic model design were used to analyze survey responses for participants from four program years randomly chosen from 2000 to 2015, medical school enrollment records for participants from 1969 to 2015, physician practice locations for participants from 1969 to 2009, and interviews with a purposeful random sample of 10 physicians who were program participants from 2004 to 2008. Narrative inquiry consisted of audio recording, transcription, and analysis of individual accounts and participant experiences. The study revealed that participants valued interactions with physicians from backgrounds underrepresented in medicine. Talks on careers in medicine increased participants’ knowledge, and research projects helped develop skills. Cardiovascular physiology lectures introduced participants to the medical school learning experience and increased their confidence to apply to medical school successfully. T-SRF enhanced participants’ medical school applications and sharpened interviewing skills; 83% matriculated into medical school, 90% graduated, and 45% practice in HPSAs, MUAs/Ps, and rural areas. Recommendations included improving program orientation, making the cardiovascular physiology lectures and examinations more valuable experiences, re-evaluating the study skills curriculum, providing more clinical experiences, increasing the weekly stipend, improving maintenance of the alumni database, formally partnering admissions with the T-SRF program, helping alumni return to Weill Cornell as residents or fellows, and considering other ways to measure social concern. Further studies of T-SRF should be undertaken

From Betrayal to Power

Resistance is the secret of joy! --Alice Walker Possessing the Secret of Joy What does it mean to love a daughter in a culture that is hostile to her integrity? In a culture where power equals dominance and superiority, men\u27s control of public life--the world of political and economic power that shapes the desires of private life--places mothers in a double bind as their daughters approach womanhood. The common ways that mothers have of guiding daughters--what we call the paths of least resistance in chapter two 1 --ask girls to make deep psychological sacrifices to straddle the cultural division of work, in the male public world of politics and business, and love, in the female private world of home and family. As girls find that they cannot enter patriarchy fully and powerfully as themselves, they feel betrayed by their mothers. But mothers did not create the separate spheres of public and private life. It is this cultural betrayal of human integrity, which divides our wholeness into these separate spheres, that makes loving and raising a daughter political work. The romance-into-mothering myth created in the mid-1800s told women that their true nature is best expressed in the home, in private life. 2 When market-driven factory life in the Industrial Revolution consumed women\u27s traditional work of producing food, clothing, medicine, and crafts, women were suddenly stripped of their expertise and authority. Rather than adopting a rationalist solution of admitting women into modern society ..

Building Citywide Systems for Quality: A Guide and Case Studies for Afterschool Leaders

This guide is intended to help cities strengthen and sustain quality afterschool programs by using an emerging practice known as a quality improvement system (QIS). The guide explains how to start building a QIS or how to further develop existing efforts and features case studies of six communities' QIS

The Contribution of P. G. Wodehouse to the Field of Gastronomy through his Character, the French Chef, Anatole

In her paper ‘A Cultural Field in the Making: Gastronomy in 19th-Century France’, Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson argues that the field of gastronomy came into existence in the middle of the nineteenth century in France. This field of gastronomy was constructed from two elements, the significance that gastronomy, defined at the time as a structured set of culinary practices, had attained in France by the nineteenth century, but also, the contribution of writers of culinary discourse who wrote about this gastronomy. These writers came from different disciplines and included the realist fiction writer Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), whose work Ferguson describes as ethnographic, the scientific description of cultures and people. This thesis takes the premise of a realist fiction writer, Balzac, contributing to the gastronomic field, and extends it to P. G. Wodehouse and his character, the French chef, Anatole. The thesis asks whether Wodehouse’s depiction of Anatole is ethnographically accurate and can, therefore, be said to contribute to and extend the gastronomic field. In doing so, it underlines the interaction between literature and the gastronomic field and may prompt investigation into further contributions made to the gastronomic field by other realist fiction writers

The effect of visuals on recall, attitude and behavioral intention toward irradiated foods

This study aims to compare two modes of presenting information about food irradiation on audience\u27s recall, attitude and behavioral intentions toward this food safety innovation. The manipulation of a one-page brochure served as the study\u27s experimental treatment. Half of the study\u27s respondents were presented with a brochure that used only text to describe the processes, risks and benefits associated with food irradiation. The other half of the respondents received a brochure that used visuals, combined with text, to describe the same information. The findings suggest that when readers are presented with risk information using a combination of text and visuals, recall of objective facts is increased. Respondents demonstrated fairly neutral attitudinal dispositions and behavioral intentions toward items related to food irradiation. However, the findings indicate that with a more accessible way of presenting complicated scientific information and technological risks, an audience is better equipped to structure appropriate attitudes and make informed behavioral decisions about a relatively unknown food safety practice. The results also indicate that using visuals to explain medical, technological, and natural hazards has great influence on knowledge gain. With greater recall, audiences are better positioned to make informed decisions about how to mitigate risks related to safety of the foods they eat. Therefore, developing risk communication messages in ways that cater to the needs of different learners (i.e., those who respond more to text and those who respond more to visuals) is a worthy objective for public investments

Victim to Abuser

This paper evaluates the ideology that children who are abused and molested may one day become the abuser

Generalizability of Multiple Measures of Treatment Integrity: An Empirical Replication

Treatment integrity is essential for the implementation of interventions in schools as it determines the accuracy or consistency with which different components of a treatment are implemented. There are no current standards regarding the best practices in treatment integrity measurement; however, higher integrity is associated with enhanced student outcomes. At present, there is no database providing information on treatment integrity for practitioners, researchers, and policy-makers to reference for choosing an appropriate level of treatment integrity needed for certain interventions for certain problems. Consequently, there is a need to establish convergent validity among different methods of treatment integrity measurement using multiple evidence-based interventions in order to guide best practices. The current study attempted to replicate and expand the finding that the direct observation method yields the most reliable treatment integrity data the most quickly, followed by self-report, when using an evidence-based intervention (Gresham, Dart, & Collins, 2017). For this study, researchers empirically replicated the methods of Gresham and colleagues’ work to examine two of the three measures of treatment integrity, direct observation and self-report, for six teachers’ implementation of the response cards intervention