Follow Up: Medical Rhetoric – Making the Case for Oral Presentations

Goal: •Oral case presentation skill is fundamental in clinical communication •This skill is first developed in medical school pre-clinical training •Continued development is often by “Trial and Error” – often without a formal curriculum Purpose: Development of a new curriculum designed to acknowledge the importance of this skill development and create a method in building this skill mindfull

Supporting Career Development and Employment: A Skill Development Practicum

This practicum workbook was designed to aid benefits planners and advocates in supporting the employment decision making process for individuals with disabilities. The first portion of the workbook discusses approaches for understanding interests, preferences, abilities and support needs; impact of choices on financial well-being and independence; supporting the service provider selection process; developing comprehensive work plans; and, quality assurance strategies to evaluate services and supports provided. The workbook concludes with a case application

A mixed-method analysis on students’ critical thinking and problem solving skill development in Malaysian public universities

Employers nowadays are looking for potential fresh graduates who are able to think outside the box, so that they can produce with quality works. However, they are failed to do so and this situation result in high unemployment rate among graduates, mainly in Malaysia. With this concern, this paper aims to examine students’ critical thinking and problem solving skill development after undergoing an industrial training. Further investigation also examines relationship of the skill development with respect to supervisors’ leadership styles. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were employed, with three hypotheses were tested. A total of 2,000 undergraduate students from six public universities in Malaysia involved in pre- and post-training surveys. In assessing students’ critical thinking and problem solving skill, eleven items in Belbin inventory on Thinking role was used. Meanwhile, nine employers and twelve students were participated in the interviews and they were asked regarding their perception of industrial training in assisting the development of critical thinking and problem solving skill. Descriptive analysis (such as mean), paired samples t-test, correlation and content analysis were utilized for the data analysis. Overall, results reveal that students developed in their critical thinking and problem solving skill upon completion of the industrial training. The results also demonstrate that there is a relationship between transformational leadership style the skill development. The findings of this study provide the necessity for industrial training stakeholders to improve industrial training program, mainly by implementing appropriate leadership style

Relative Wage Variation and Industry Location

Relative wages vary considerably across regions of the United Kingdom, with skill-abundantregions exhibiting lower skill premia than skill-scarce regions. This paper shows that thelocation of economic activity is correlated with the variation in relative wages. U.K. regionswith low skill premia produce different sets of manufacturing industries than regions withhigh skill premia. Relative wages are also linked to subsequent economic development: overtime, increases in the employment share of skill- intensive industries are greater in regionswith lower initial skill premia. Both results suggest firms adjust production across and withinregions in response to relative wage differences.Deindustrialization, Relative Factor Prices, Diversification Cones

The Impact of Early Career Experiences on Youth’s Proactive Work Socialization Behavior

Little is known about the impact of individual characteristics, historical factors, and situational characteristics on youth\u27s proactive work socialization behavior (career planning, skill development, consultation, and networking). Data from a longitudinal cross-national study (Belgium, England, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain) on career starters from two occupational groups, are used to test the hypothesized impact of predictor sets. Results confirm the positive impact of early career experience on the skill development proactive behavior; the dominant impact of the broader socioeconomic political and cultural country context on all four aspects of proactive behavior; and the sporadic effect of occupation, gender, and educational history on some proactive behavior dimensions

Relative Wage Variation and Industry Location

Relative wages vary considerably across regions of the United Kingdom, with skill-abundant regions exhibiting lower skill premia than skill-scarce regions. This paper shows that the location of economic activity is correlated with the variation in relative wages. U.K. regions with low skill premia produce different sets of manufacturing industries than regions with high skill premia. Relative wages are also linked to subsequent economic development: over time, increases in the employment share of skill-intensive industries are greater in regions with lower initial skill premia. Both results suggest firms adjust production across and within regions in response to relative wage differences.