Junior surgeons lack practical experience.

A Junior Course of Practical Zoology

What influences surgeons’ experience of surgical research?

Whilst there is evidence to suggest that surgeons recognise the need for research in surgery and a requirement to be familiar with research methods, including bias and design weaknesses, there remains a reluctance to participate in, and recruit to, surgical research. Compared to drug trials, surgical research offers some unique challenges and incorporation into standard surgical practice can be...

Theories and Practical Experience

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Scaling the practical education experience

In the past decade, a number of environments to support hands-on exercises for undergraduateand graduate-level networking courses have been developed. In this position paper, we consider the successful model of a graduate-level laboratory-based course, and how similarly compelling handson experiences may be brought to a wider audience at the undergraduate level. While there are significant chal...

Practical Preservation: The PREMIS Experience

In 2003 the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) and Research Libraries Group (RLG) established an international working group to develop a common, implementable core set of metadata elements for digital preservation. Most published specifi cations for preservation-related metadata are either implementation specifi c or broadly theoretical. PREMIS (Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strateg...