This paper reports the use of quantitative and qualitative measures of university student learning during teaching in psychiatry. Concept mapping, pre-and post test scores and performance in written assignments were used to measure the quality of change in personal understanding and to show the ways that the knowledge-targets of the course were achieved. The data show that: (1) Concept mapping ...

Q: What personal qualities have made your career possible? A: An advantage I have is having an open mind and being humble enough to realize that you can’t be an expert in everything. As problems become bigger, especially in the case of natural disasters, we have to work more with other scientists, other engineering groups, but also with the social sciences— psychologists, disaster managers, his...

Systems biology is increasingly popular, but to many biologists it remains unclear what this new discipline actually encompasses. This brief personal perspective starts by outlining the asthetic qualities that motivate systems biologists, discusses which activities do not belong to the core of systems biology, and finally explores the crucial link with synthetic biology. It concludes by attempt...

As a coach educator I sometimes set my students the task of choosing their favourite coach, and critically considering the reasons for their selections. Phil Jackson is without doubt my own favourite sports coach. In this article I hope to encapsulate the essence of his coaching philosophy and practices, and some of the personal qualities that I believe set him apart from other coaches. But fir...

The Pharos/Spring 2016 The good physician knows his patients through and through, and his knowledge is bought dearly. Time, sympathy, and understanding must be lavishly dispensed, but the reward is to be found in that personal bond which forms the greatest satisfaction of the practice of medicine. One of the essential qualities of the clinician is interest in humanity, for the secret of the car...

Veterinary Professional Life (VPL) is a whole-of-course stream of interventions recently introduced to the Murdoch University veterinary curriculum, intended to raise the profile of, and student outcomes in, professional skills and attributes important to success in veterinary practice. These include not only veterinary-specific professional attributes (e.g. ethics, business, diagnostic skills)...

money we had." The distinctive identity and qualities of the individual initiating the message evoke a mental image with a pattern of association that arouses corresponding expectation. In like manner, the growth of biographical writings to a recognised literary species in recent decades reflects the public's appetite for personal record. The brief snatches I present here reflect but the merest...