A Call for Improved Otoscopy Training

Otoscopy simulation training in a classroom setting: a novel approach to teaching otoscopy to medical students.

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To determine the effectiveness of using of an otoscopy stimulator to teach medical students the primary principles of otoscopy in large group training sessions and improve their confidence in making otologic diagnoses. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional survey design. METHODS In March 2013, the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery held a large-scale otoscopy si...

A call for standardized training.

This special issue of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness is being published as a result of the tragic events that occurred on the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) campus in April 2007. Such events vividly underscore the need for specialized training to ensure the most appropriate and effective response on the part of the medical and public health...

Improved Training for Self-Training

It is well known that for some tasks, labeled data sets may be hard to gather. Self-training, or pseudo-labeling, tackles the problem of having insufficient training data. In the self-training scheme, the classifier is first trained on a limited, labeled dataset, and after that, it is trained on an additional, unlabeled dataset, using its own predictions as labels, provided those predictions ar...

A Call for a Backward Design to Knowledge Translation

Despite several calls to support evidence-informed policy-making, variations in uptake of evidence into policy persist. This editorial brings together and builds on previous Knowledge Translation (KT) frameworks and theories to present a simple, yet, holistic approach for promoting evidence-informed policies. The proposed conceptual framework is characterized by its impact-oriented approach and...

Provinces call for improved senior care.