Kindred: Alone, Beside, and Among

The purpose of the exhibition is to explore issues of identity and race among African-American artists and designers at RISD. We hope to connect the RISD community to prints, photographs, sculptures, and corresponding audio/video of students talking about their experience. The exhibit space will use performance as a catalyst to start meaningful dialogue and foster connections across campus. We see this as a platform to fully engage the RISD community, staff, faculty, and students in a conversation about the cultural context of their work. In our respective disciplines we are both exploring topics of race and racism and provoking conversations on difficult subject matter. Tia is conducting historical research that investigates racial tropes within seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Providence that are still germane today. Kelly is unearthing historical artifacts throughout American history as a way to better understand her own culture

Kindred (exhibition catalog)

Kindred presents a selection of art and design work from artists who identify as being of African descent. The assembled graduate, undergraduate, and alumni students are among the 83 students on the RISD campus who share this African ancestry. The artists featured in the show demonstrate a cross section of ethnic affiliations which include Black, African- American, African American-European, Haitian, Trinidadian-Puerto Rican, Jamaican-Japanese, Caribbean-Filipino, Guinean-American, Nigerian-American, and Swedish-Ugandan. Students hail from the following departments: Apparel Design, Film/Animation/Video, Furniture Design, Glass, Graphic Design, Illustration, Industrial Design, Painting, Photography, and Printmaking. The students work in and outside their formal disciplines to highlight the complexities of race, identity politics, gender stereotypes, homosexuality, religious freedom, Afro-futurism and the connections between nature, physical objects and the human condition

Cartesian Bicategories II

The notion of cartesian bicategory, introduced by Carboni and Walters for locally ordered bicategories, is extended to general bicategories. It is shown that a cartesian bicategory is a symmetric monoidal bicategory

Speech Pathology Student Perspectives on Virtual Reality to Learn a Clinical Skill

Evidence supports the use of simulation in educating speech pathology (SP) students, however most of the research has centered on low fidelity techniques as opposed to high fidelity and immersive technologies like virtual reality (VR). Whilst there has been research on the use of VR to teach clinical skills to students in other health disciplines (e.g., dentistry, nursing), use of VR in SP has focused mainly on its use in client intervention. There is an opportunity to use VR to teach clinical skills to SP students, particularly in response to barriers to clinical placement opportunities like the COVID 19 pandemic. Aim/s: The aim of this qualitative study was to explore students’ perceptions on the use of VR to learn a clinical skill: administration of an oral musculature assessment (OMA). Second year SP students received VR training on OMAs (VR-OMA) at the start of their first pediatric clinical placement. Students completed a brief, open-ended survey regarding their experiences and perceived impact of the VR tool. Data from 55 surveys were retrospectively analyzed using a thematic approach. Results: Survey responses highlighted that the VR-OMA training created a positive learning experience. Five themes were generated: the technology, the teaching and learning strategies, the outcomes, the experience, and a good alternative. Speech pathology students valued the inclusion of the VR-OMA training in their learning and highlighted many advantages to the use of this technology when learning a clinical skill

Collegiate Football Player Suffering from Non-Traumatic Hemoptysis

In volume 4, Issue 1 of the JSMAHS you will find Professional Research Abstracts, as well as Bachelor Student Research Abstracts and Case Reports. Thank you for viewing this 4th Annual OATA Special Editio

A review of public health economic modelling in the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

Background: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) use economic modelling to inform judgements whenever further insight is required for decision-making. Doing so for public health guidance poses several challenges. The study’s objective was to investigate the level of heterogeneity in NICE’s public health economic models with regards to economic evaluation techniques, perspectives on outcomes and the measurement of non-health benefits. Methods: A review of all economic modelling reports published by NICE’s Centre for Public Health (CPH) as part of their guidance. Results: The review identified 56 eligible pieces of public health over the relevant period. Of these, 43 used economic modelling and 13 used no formal economic model. In total 61 economic models were used. Though the CPH specifies a reference case, in practice there is a large amount of variability from one model to the next. The most common perspective used for evaluations was that of the National Health Service (NHS); the most common economic evaluation approach was cost-utility analysis (CUA). 23 of the 56 topics used other combinations of perspective and technique, which allowed them to incorporate non-health effects, such as productivity, the effect on taxes raised and benefits spending, costs to the criminal justice sector, the effect on educational attainment and general wellbeing. Conclusions: NICE regularly updates its reference case, and non-CUA evaluation techniques have become more prominent in recent years. The results highlight the genuine advantages of having a variety of economic evaluation techniques available, which can be matched with the given topic. While it is always necessary to be wary of the possibility of gamesmanship and cherry picking, there is a surprising alignment between many approaches in certain circumstances

African American Women's Personal Influencing Factors Associated with Pap Smear Testing and Cervical Cancer.

Pap smears are well established as a screening test that detects precursor lesions to cancer. African American (AA) women’s mortality rates from cervical cancer are highest compared to all other groups of women in part due to their screening practices. The purpose of this study was to explore personal factors that influence AA women’s use of Pap smear screening services. The Interaction Model of Client Health Behavior (IMCHB) (Cox, 1984) was used as a guiding framework to qualitatively explore the influence of women’s social influence and previous health care experience and their influence on women’s cognitive appraisal associated with Pap smears and cervical cancer. Face-to-face interviews with 24 low income AA women (19 to 60 years of age) were conducted, 11 of whom obtained Pap smears routinely (every 1-3 years) and 13 were identified as non-routine (greater than every 3 years). Data were analyzed using two approaches: 1) constant comparison to collect and evaluate data inductively and arrive at an understanding of major themes and comparisons across groups; and 2) a content analysis where the interview data were considered in relation to the elements of the IMCHB. Findings revealed that social influence in regards to valuing preventative health care was different between the routine and non-routine groups. Previous health care experience with having a Pap smear and pelvic exam was primarily positive for the routine-use group and negative for the non-routine-use group. Cognitively, Pap smears were believed to test for cancer and sexually transmitted diseases by both groups. Both routine-use and non-routine-use groups believed vulnerability to cervical cancer was thought to run in families, that they were either safe from risk or hoped that the odds were in their favor. An unexpected finding was a history of trauma (n=9) among the non-routine-use group that elicited negative perceptions towards their previous health care experience contributing to avoidance of the screening test. The insights from these interviews with AA women provide new information on personal influences that affect routine screening behavior. Specifically, traumatic histories were found to negatively affect behavior in routine preventative health care.Ph.D.NursingUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/60722/1/kellya_1.pd

Collegiate Football Athlete Presents with Nontraditional Case of Rhabdomyolysis and Secondary Finding of Ureterocele

Please enjoy Volume 5, Issue 1 of the JSMAHS. In this issue you will find Professional and under graduate research abstracts, case reports, and critically appraised topics. Thank you for viewing this 5th Annual OATA Special Edition