Teaching ambition

This article examines some of the racist features of nineteenth-century medical school curricula in the United States and the imperial networks necessary to acquire the data and specimens that underpinned this part of medical education, which established hierarchies between human races and their relationship to the natural environment. It shows how, in a world increasingly linked by trade and colonialism, medical schools were founded in the United States and grew as the country developed its own imperial ambitions...

AIM: To survey current UK radiology trainee experiences and opinions regarding the quality of paediatric radiology training encountered in their core years, and assess their career ambitions with regards to paediatric radiology. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A 22-question online survey, approved by the BSPR committee, was promoted over 12 months (1 February 2022 to 31 January 2023) across current radiology trainees and fellows via regional radiology training programme directors (TPDs), Junior Radiology Forum (JRF) trainee representatives, at BSPR Junior Forum webinar teaching sessions, and via social media/word of mouth...

The roles and responsibilities of radiation therapists (RTTs) are many and varied. Professional expectations are influenced by the technology available, as well as the level of autonomy RTTs have in their daily practice. This professional range requires RTTs to possess a unique set of ever evolving skills, posing challenges from an educational perspective. Teaching these "advanced skills" has been the ambition the ESTRO Advanced Skills in Modern Radiotherapy course. In the 10th year of this course, the Faculty look back and reflect on how our programme has evolved and what it has achieved...

BACKGROUND: Peer-assisted learning (PAL) - where students take up a teaching role at an early stage of their training-is widely used in medical curricula. Many qualitative studies have investigated the perceptions and benefits of PAL, but no studies have longitudinally explored how peer teachers experienced their development. This could allow for a better understanding of PAL. In this study, we explored the perceived impact of being a peer teacher on the development of personal and professional competencies as a medical student...

This paper aims to understand the critical areas for sustainable behavioural change on a university campus in order to achieve the net zero‑carbon ambition pre- and post-COVID-19 pandemic recovery. For this purpose, the current empirical study is the first attempt to statistically examine the whole campus as a system, considering staff and student views (campus users), by developing an index measuring propensity for sustainable behavioural change to achieve a net zero‑carbon campus. The novelty of this study is based on the following: (i) The impact of environmental sustainability measures due to COVID-19 is examined on three themes: physical activity routines on a daily basis, research, and teaching and learning, and (ii) the index that is compatible with quantifying the behavioural change...

BACKGROUND: Children inherently want to remain engrossed in the activities as easily as possible within their ecological environment and academic curricular ambit. Covid-19 adversely affected our physical, social, and mental conditions and children were no exception. OBJECTIVES: To understand the experiences of teachers who have been doing virtual teaching to children during COVID-19; To understand the impact of virtual teaching and COVID-19 on physical and mental health of children...

This study is based around Education Scotland's ambition to create a coherent learning framework for pupils aged 3-18, with particular focus on the technologies curricular area, and more specifically the subject of design and technology (D&T). The study investigates the views, definitions, and approaches adopted by primary and secondary educators applied to the D&T curricular area. Furthermore, the research explores curricular understanding and pedagogical approaches in addition to individual teacher's understanding of technology education...

It is the responsibility of colleges and universities to nurture talents for the country. In the final analysis, the purpose of teaching, scientific research, and social services in colleges and universities is to educate people. The study of labor education, in the face of the important historical opportunity of transformation, is a theoretical representation of labor education and its value choice. The answer to this question can help us clarify the meaning of labor education and improve the scientific and systematic practice of labor education...

Background: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) presents a global threat to public health. Engaging all healthcare professionals including undergraduates in efforts to tackle AMR is vital. Sharing and spreading good practice in teaching on AMR and antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) is a key ambition in Scotland. In 2020, the University of Glasgow Dental School supplemented teaching with mandatory completion by final year undergraduates of an online education programme on the essential role of dental teams in reducing AMR...

Policy agendas across the developed world privilege systems transformation, notably shifting the balance of service provision from hospital to community settings. Primary and community health services have pivotal roles in the United Kingdom's longstanding policy ambition of healthcare services transformation, and it is imperative that undergraduate nursing students comprehend community settings as valuable learning environments, places of care and community nurses' roles therein. However, limited community placement learning opportunities means nursing students may be inadequately prepared to work in community settings at the point of initial registration...

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, research teams in the United States and Finland were collaborating on a study to improve adolescent academic engagement in chemistry and physics and the impact remote teaching on academic, social, and emotional learning. The ongoing "Crafting Engaging Science Environments" (CESE) intervention afforded a rare data collection opportunity. In the United States, students were surveyed at the beginning of the school year and again in May, providing information for the same 751 students from before and during the pandemic...

The initial nursing training framework offers the opportunity to build a teaching program that will lay the foundations of an eco-citizen care giving practice. With evolving content, and in light of climatic contingencies and the need to adapt to emerging pathologies, these courses must make sustainable development, associated with hygiene and safety, a new professional imperative in the care giving system.

INTRODUCTION: Academic faculty are evaluated on their service, teaching, and research performance with the reward of tenure, promotion, and self-fulfillment. Triathletes spend numerous hours building their swim, bike, and run endurance in aspiration of crossing the finish line on race day. Given the workload required for academic and triathlon success, effective time and task management is essential. In this commentary, the authors posit that academic faculty can effectively structure their day-to-day "training" to achieve their career ambitions similarly to how a triathlete structures their training plan in preparation for a race...

Established in 1929, Northwestern University's Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (SCDL), America's first independent forensic crime laboratory, undertook a wide range of scientific case work during the 1930s, including toxicology, firearms identification, polygraph testing, the analysis of questioned documents and bacteriology; its mission being to provide Chicago with a world-class forensic science service. Alongside this mission, however, a key ambition of the SCDL's founders was to forensically educate police officers, legal professionals, and the general public...

'Inclusion' aims to achieve adaptation of the environment to the diverse prerequisites and needs of individuals, instead of demanding of individuals to cope with the challenges of a given context themselves exclusively. All Scandinavian countries have made formal decisions to enhance inclusive practice for children and adolescents with disabilities in educational settings, seeking to implement international conventions. We investigated current inclusive practice for students with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) in Swedish primary, secondary and high-schools using the 61-item INCLUSIO scale among N=4778 school staff with educational responsibilities in 68 public and private schools across 11 municipalities...

OBJECTIVE: This compact overview outlines the responsibilities and broad field of tasks of a post-doctoral fellow in surgical teaching within the framework of studies in human medicine. METHOD: Narrative short review based on own individual and institutional teaching experiences. RESULTS: Role of the post-doctoral fellow (selection): (i) due to the planned (sub)specialization by the respective habilitation project and because of the accumulated (administrative and scientific as well as teaching) experience within the framework of this scientific graduation, the post-doctoral fellow appears to be a more suitable, motivated and competent doctoral manager and supervisor compared to colleagues who do not intend to get the habilitation...

A literature search indicates an absence of research into boy's experiences of physical education (PE) in classes in which there is a significant majority of girls. The aim of the study was to examine how boys in such classes experience their PE lessons. The methodological approach was qualitative, and data were collected with interviews of 13 boys in classes with more than 90% girls at a Norwegian high school. The data were analyzed with QSR NVivo 10 (London), focused on creating categories of meaning, in which students' experiences were taken as subjectively true...

BACKGROUND: China holds one fifth of the world's population and faces a rapidly aging society. In its ambition to reach a health care standard comparable to developed countries by 2030, the implementation of palliative care gains special importance. Until now, palliative care education in China is limited and disparate. This study aims to explore and determine factors that have impeded the development and implementation of palliative care education in China. METHODS: We conducted semi-structured interviews with n=28 medical teachers from seven Chinese universities...

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Rather than the harmonious coexistence of different therapeutic practices and meaning systems, medical pluralism involves the contestation of norms and meanings related to legitimacy and authority. The implicit cultural norms that shape local understandings of health and legitimate healing methods become more during periods of social and cultural change. This paper demonstrates the contested nature of medical pluralism based on the case study of one significant figure, Estonian gynaecologist and spiritual teacher Luule Viilma...