Challenging academic presentations

Some Challenging Group Presentations

We study some challenging presentations which arise as groups of deeciency zero. In four cases we settle niteness: we show that two presentations are for nite groups while two are for innnite groups. Thus we answer three explicit questions in the literature and we provide the rst published deeciency zero presentation for a group with soluble length seven. The tools we use are coset enumeration ...

Challenging presentations of cavernous sinus thrombophlebitis

AIM The purpose of this study was to describe two challenging cases of septic cavernous sinus thrombosis (CST), which presented with vastly different clinical signs and symptoms. METHODS We present two cases of CST with markedly differing clinical presentations, medical comorbidities, and degree of impairment. Initial imaging of each patient failed to show thromboembolic disease. RESULTS Bo...

Mentoring in academic medicine: A challenging yet rewarding endeavour.

Taking presentations seriously: Invoking narrative craft in academic talks

As academics, we attend a lot conferences where the majority of talks we sit through are just plain bad. Presenters ascend to the podium to read from a set of unfinished jottings, dots and half-statements scattered across randomly selected backgrounds. This is ironic because as health professions educators, we care about good communication and teaching. Many of us study how to share information...

Entitlement Attitudes Predict Students’ Poor Performance in Challenging Academic Conditions

Excessive entitlement – an exaggerated or unrealistic belief about what one deserves – has been associated with a variety of maladaptive behaviors, including a decline in motivation and effort. In the context of tertiary education, we reasoned that if students expend less effort to obtain positive outcomes to which they feel entitled, this should have negative implications for academic performa...