Charting a future for epidemiologic training

Charting your company's future.

Few companies have a clear strategic vision. The problem, say the authors, stems from the strategic-planning process itself, which usually involves preparing a large document, culled from a mishmash of data provided by people with conflicting agendas. That kind of process almost guarantees an unfocused strategy. Instead, companies should design the strategic-planning process by drawing a pictur...

Charting a global future for education in physiology.

The 2005 Claude Bernard Distinguished Lecture was presented at the XXXV International Congress of Physiological Sciences (IUPS) in San Diego, CA, by Ann J. Sefton. Dr. Sefton is an Emeritus Professor of Physiology of the University of Sydney and co-Chair of the IUPS Education Committee. A full profile of Dr. Sefton is included in this issue's The Physiology Teacher.

Commentary Cardiopulmonary resuscitation: charting a course for the future

Imagine you have a choice. Tomorrow, you can either be dead, or you can choose a 1% chance of survival. For most of us, it’s an easy decision; the odds of survival aren’t good, but they are better than certain death. Now imagine that you are trying to persuade a patient not to receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). ‘It almost certainly would not work, would only prolong the dying process,...

Charting the future from the past.

Training for the future

In the spring of 1995, the US National Research Council (NRC) in Washington, DC released a report on ‘Reshaping the Graduate Education of Scientists and Engineers’ (http://www.nas.edu/nap/online/grad/ index.html), in response to the frustration that many young scientists were feeling over their future career prospects. As senior graduate students, we too had felt that frustration. When the repo...