BackgroundThere is global momentum to establish scalable Quality Improvement (QI) skills training curricula. We report development of an implementation plan for national scale-up the ‘Education in Improvement’ program (EQUIP) UK urology residencies.Materials & methodsTheory-of-Change (ToC) methodology was used, which engaged EQUIP stakeholders developing a single-page ‘Logic Model’ 4 study phas...

New technologies to probe the nervous system are propelling innovation and discovery at blinding speed, but are our trainees prepared to maximize this power? The growing role of engineering in research, such as materials, computing, electronics, and devices, compels us to rethink neuroscience education. Core technology requirements, cross-disciplinary education, open-source resources, and exper...

Floer cohomology groups are usually defined over a field of formal functions (a Novikov field). Under certain assumptions, one can equip them with connections, which means operations of differentiation with respect to the Novikov variable. This allows one to write differential equations for Floer cohomology classes. Here, we apply that idea to symplectic cohomology groups associated to Lefschet...

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The Extended Resource Description Framework has been proposed to equip RDF graphs with weak and strong negation, as well as derivation rules, increasing the expressiveness of ordinary RDF graphs. In parallel, the Modular Web framework enables collaborative and controlled reasoning in the Semantic Web. In this paper we exploit the use of the Modular Web framework to specify the modular semantics...

Continuing Medical Education (CME) and Quality Improvement (QI) Initiatives have the same ultimate objective: to provide optimal care for patients. We believe that formal CME and QI need and can even strengthen each other in the process of Continuing Professional Development (CPD). This policy document, prepared by both EURACT and EQUIP is needed to inform and support national/local authorities...

All service providers andprograms that are listed on this online portal have completed a rigorous selfassessment process and are then externally assessed by Quality Innovation Performance according to a quality framework before attaining registration. The criteria for assessment stipulates that programs must be evidence based and have evaluation integrated into program design. Programs and serv...

Traditionally in UK medical schools, teaching of therapeutics and prescribing has been weak. Almost 40% UK medical schools do not teach therapeutics at all. Of the others, the majority do not teach therapeutics per se, but have a “vertical strand” running through the clinical course. The EQUIP survey carried out in 19 UK hospitals on behalf of the GMC (and which, inexplicably, remains unpublish...

A gathering-based routing protocol (GRP) for mobile ad hoc networks is presented. The idea is to rapidly collect network information at a source node at an expense of a small amount of control overheads. The source node can equip promising routes on the basis of the collected information, thereby continuously transmitting data packets even if the current route is disconnected. It results in ach...

Flow is a psychological state that is reported to improve people’s performance. Flow can emerge when the person’s skills and the challenges of their activity match. This paper applies this concept to artificial intelligence agents. We equip a decision-making agent with a metacontrol policy that guides the agent to activities where the agent’s skills match the activity difficulty. Consequently, ...