The transition of interprofessional education in a large metropolitan academic setting

INTRODUCTION: Interprofessional education (IPE) is the organized integration of health care disciplines. IPE provides an environment for students and faculty from multiple disciplines to learn collaboration and communication skills for future clinical practice. In the 1970s, United States health institutions began focusing on team-based health care and IPE. IPE was viewed as a solution to the growing burden of health care costs and the increasing ratio of diseases to available resources. IPE was formed around four competencies--Ethics, Communication, Teamwork, and Roles and Responsibilities--to provide students with the necessary tools to work efficiently in health care teams upon entering the workforce. FOCUS AND GOALS: USF Health currently has five major pre-professional disciplines on its campus--medicine, physical therapy, pharmacy, nursing, and public health. An IPE initiative began in 2010 in order to eventually integrate portions of all disciplines and their curricula. The central question of this thesis is, "Has there been a change within the student and faculty populations of USF Health in terms of IPE awareness and opinion since before the IPE initiative began in 2010?" This thesis aims to evaluate the changes in both student and faculty perspectives across several health disciplines at USF Health when compared to previously recorded perspectives from 2010. This information will be recorded to provide a guide for improving the current IPE initiative at USF Health. METHODS: Using data from a 2010 survey, the researchers created an updated survey and released it to the students and faculty of all five disciplines. The results provided a comparison for the original 2010 data. A general literature review was used to supplement the collected survey results and guide the analysis and discussion of data. Results: The qualitative data from the original student (n=29) and faculty (n=58) surveys was quantified and compared against the data from the updated student (n=83) and faculty (n=16) surveys. Several consistent themes were found in responses from selected questions. The following themes were found within the literature: student and faculty perspectives of IPE, barriers and opportunities to IPE, and implementation methods. CONCLUSION: The study found that changes in opinion occurred between both student and faculty participants. Both students and faculty showed an increase in IPE awareness and alluded to several barriers that were also found within the literature. This study will serve as a continued method of evaluating IPE at USF health in order to maintain a continued improvement of IPE implementation amongst all colleges. LIMITATIONS: The initial student data set was significantly smaller than the new student data set and represented a different distribution of disciplines. This may account for some of the changes observed between both groups and should be considered in any future analysis of this data. Because the data presented in this thesis project is a preliminary sample of the future, complete survey results, a follow-up analysis of the complete data will be required to draw any comprehensive conclusions from this study

Imaginary landscapes of the time Between moors and Andean towns of Venezuela

The present article approaches the topic of the social representation of the time. Their content constitutes the interpretation of the second moment of an investigation in the moor of Mucuchíes, municipality Rangel, of the state Merida, mountain range of Merida that in turn is articulated to the mountain range of The Andes. From conversations about the time with women and their world of life between the high moors and some villages and populated centers are obtained—starting from a cross-section analysis and plural in the method—los testimonials of women in their context moor. Using the theory of the representations, and having certain cautions regarding this, data of some dimensions are obtained: of knowledge, of affections and valuations, as well as of the practices. It is supposed that this “social representations” they have a psico-philosophical-social, but also symbolic-cultural content (myths, rites and customs) that eat expression of a matrix context and lateral routine daily acts it is they are able to configure “imaginary landscapes” in an architecture of the space-time from a philosophiaplebeia that he/she specifies to be recoveredPresente artículo aborda el tema de la representación social del tiempo. Su contenido constituye la interpretación del segundo momento de una investigación en el páramo de Mucuchíes, municipio Rangel, del estado Mérida, cordillera de Mérida, que a su vez se articula a la cordillera de Los Andes.Desde conversaciones sobre el tiempo con mujeres y su mundo de vida entre los altos páramos y algunas aldeas y centros poblados se obtienen —a partir de un análisis transversal y plural en el método— los testimonios de mujeres en su contexto páramo. Usando la teoría de las representaciones, y teniendo ciertas precauciones respecto a esta, se obtienen datos de algunas dimensiones: de conocimiento, de afectos y valoraciones, así como de las prácticas. Se supone que dichas “representaciones sociales” tienen un contenido psico-filosóficosocial, pero también simbólico-cultural (mitos, ritos y costumbres), que como expresión de un contexto matricial y actos cotidianos rutinarios laterales logran configurar “paisajes imaginarios” en una arquitectura del espaciotiempo desde una philosophiaplebeia que precisa ser recuperad

Mobile apps software development with Creative Inquiry

This project presents and focuses on a sample of apps resulting from a novel and successful mobile device software development course taught at Clemson University. Today\u27s smartphones are filled with ample features. This presents a challenge for a student wanting to learn about developing mobile apps. At Clemson University, a senior/first year graduate-level course uses a novel approach to deliver the course content. This poster briefly describes the course. The software development course uses a novel teaching technique called open collaboration. The course is divided in two sections; the first section is common to all students wherein students are required to complete a set of four assignments that help them get acquainted to the platform. When students finish the common set of assignments they work on a project. Using this novel approach we were able to develop variety of apps like The Strawberry and Peach Project, Firefly Counter, Clemson Tour for Android, mHealth app, Virginia Woolf app, Touch-Calc app

CAPITAL DE RIESGO: OBST\uc1CULOS Y OPORTUNIDADES PARA EL DESARROLLO TECNOL 3GICO EN VENEZUELA.

En Venezuela, los productos manufacturados son de bajo nivel tecnol\uf3gico y de reducido valor agregado nacional, de all\ued surge la necesidad de revisar los mecanismos que promuevan el desarrollo tecnol\uf3gico en el pa\ueds, entre ellos se encuentran las fuentes de financiamiento, espec\uedficamente las inversiones de capital de riesgo. Por ello, la investigaci\uf3n estudi\uf3 cu\ue1les son los obst\ue1culos que enfrenta el capital de riesgo en el pa\ueds y con qu\ue9 pol\uedtica gubernamental se cuenta para apoyarlo. La investigaci\uf3n fue de tipo documental y de campo. La primera proporcion\uf3 herramientas para recopilar informaci\uf3n en material impreso y electr\uf3nico, y de campo por cuanto se realizaron entrevistas y se aplicaron instrumentos a organismos relacionados. El an\ue1lisis de los resultados de la investigaci\uf3n nos permiti\uf3 presentar conclusiones sobre la realidad del capital de riesgo en el pa\ueds y formular recomendaciones para activar esta figura de financiamiento como mecanismo de apoyo para el desarrollo tecnol\uf3gico. Palabra clave: Capital de riesgo, tipos capital de riesgo, ciclo del capital de riesgo. ABSTRACT In Venezuela, manufactured products are of low technological level and added value, thus, there is a need to review the mechanisms that promote the technological development in the country like the funding sources, specifically the venture capital. In this study we analyze the obstacles faced by the venture capital in Venezuela and the government policies to support it. This work is both documentary and field research, which made it possible to collect printed and electronic material on the subject, as well as to survey the related organizations. By analyzing the results, we were able to offer conclusions on the reality of the venture capital in Venezuela, and elaborate recommendations to boost this form of funding as a support mechanism for the technological development. Keywords: venture capital, types of venture capital, cycle of venture capital. <br

ORGANIZATIONAL FIRST AID: TOOLS TO MANAGE CRISES

La Era Digital trae consigo la exigencia de aplicar estrategias disruptivas, ya que la globalidad se asienta como perspectiva bimodal de los acontecimientos. Los escenarios futuros generan gran tensión, angustia e incertidumbre en todo el personal de las empresas (Echeverría, 2011), ya que es eminente la movilidad empresarial y el surgimiento de nuevos mercados, nuevos negocios y con ellos, nuevos enfoques de gestión. La presente disertación tiene como propósito contribuir con lo que hemos llamado la caja de herramientas 4.0, propuesta con la cual venimos posicionándonos en el ámbito empresarial emergente, brindando capacitación y acompañamiento estratégico organizacional, la cual tiene como centro a las personas (capital humano), siendo nuestro principal objetivo: Ofrecer herramientas para la transformación hacia los modelos de negocios innovadores y disruptivos de la emergente economía digital. Partiendo de la capacitación de los habilitadores culturales y tecnológicos, preparación necesaria para asumir los nuevos nichos de mercado con marketing bimodal, con enfoque disruptivo y Pensamiento 4.0.The Digital Age brings with it the demand to implement disruptive strategies, since globalness is based as a bimodal perspective of events. Future scenarios generate great tension, anguish and uncertainty around the companies’ staff (Echeverría, 2011), since it is eminent the business mobility and the emergence of new markets, new business and with them, new management approaches. This dissertation aims to contribute to what we have called the 4.0 toolbox, a proposal which we have been positioning ourselves in the emerging business field, providing training and strategic organizational support, which has as its center people (human capital), being our main objective: To offer tools for transformation towards the innovative and disruptive business models of emerging digital economy. Based on the training of cultural and technological enabler, preparation necessary to assume the new market niches with bimodal marketing, with a focus on disruptive thinking and thought 4.0

Slavery in the US South

Between the American Revolution and the US Civil War, the geography of slavery and freedom in North America changed radically. In some respects, this was an age of emancipation. The northern US, Canada, and Mexico all abolished slavery in this period, and the transatlantic slave trade itself was abolished in 1808. In the southern US, however, slavery underwent an enormous expansion—from the Atlantic seaboard to Texas—mainly as a result of the successful introduction of cotton in the newly acquired lands of the southern interior. In the age of the “second slavery,” southern slavery grew at an unprecedented rate and became characterized by a number of unique features, including a slave population that was almost entirely born in slavery; the development of a massive internal slave trade that wrought havoc on slave communities; the dominance of cotton plantation agriculture in the lives of most enslaved people; the adaptation of slavery to urban settings; the curtailment of manumissions; and the rise of a continent-wide refugee crisis, as freedom seekers fled to parts of the continent where slavery had been abolished. This chapter will explore the institution of slavery in one of its most well-known contexts.Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence 1350-200

'Stark mad after negroes': het ontstaan van slavernij in Noord-Amerika

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Introduction: spaces of freedom in North America

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Equity Battles: Multicultural Leadership for English Language Learner Students

The focus of this study was to increase teachers’ and school leaders’ capacity and awareness to be better multicultural leaders for English Language Learner (ELL) students. This study produced several recommendations to address this issue. During this study, I used improvement science as the methodology and included a variety of stakeholders as participants. The conceptual framework used to guide this study included community cultural wealth and funds of knowledge. Using both the voices of ELL families and the input of the school equity team, which includes teachers and a school leader, we collaboratively created a six-stage intervention program to increase capacity and awareness for becoming better multicultural leaders for ELL students. The six stages of improvement science contained four PDSA cycles which revolved around four change ideas. The change ideas were: definitions and demographics, ELL students and the composition of public schools, Mexican community cultural wealth and funds of knowledge, and Guatemalan community cultural wealth and funds of knowledge. The purpose of all four of these change ideas was to build awareness and capacity for becoming a multicultural leader for ELL students