Words on my Mentor

Memories to Stanisław Kielich: My teacher, my mentor and my friend

A consistent scheme is proposed for quantizing the potential amplitude in the Schrödinger equation in the caseof negative energies (lying in the discrete-spectrum domain). The properties of the eigenfunctionsφν(r) and eigenvalues ανcorresponding to zero, small, and large absolute values of energy E < 0 are analyzed. Expansion in the set {φν(r)} is used todevelop a regular pertur...

Mark My Words

I have previously espoused this view, but it seems to your editor that medical specialties can be viewed using the lexicon of Physics. At one end of the spectrum we find Relativity (The world of the very large like my own specialty, Radiology) and at the other end, the world of the very small: Quantum Mechanics. In this edition, we consider as our review article, another of the ‘quantum’ subjec...

In My Own Words: A Final Portfolio

Your words are my words: effects of acting together on encoding.

Social influences on action and memory are well established. However, it is unknown how acting together affects the incidental encoding of information. The present study asked whether coactors encode information that is relevant to a partner's task, but irrelevant to their own task. In Experiment 1, participants performed a categorization task alone and together, followed by a surprise free rec...

Get yourself a mentor.

The article by Stamm and Buddeberg-Fischer underscores the importance of mentors in medical education. These researchers followed a cohort of Germanspeaking Swiss resident doctors during postgraduate specialty training. The researchers found a compelling relationship between having one or more mentors and both subjective and objective career success. Previous studies have also reported positive...