BACKGROUND Medical students often struggle to engage in extra-curricular research and audit. The Student Audit and Research in Surgery (STARSurg) network is a novel student-led, national research collaborative. Student collaborators contribute data to national, clinical studies while gaining an understanding of audit and research methodology and ethical principles. This study aimed to evaluate ...

PURPOSE Investigating adolescent training loads might help us understand optimal training adaptations. GPS tracking devices and training diaries were used to quantify weekly sport and other physical activity demands placed on adolescent rugby union players and profile typical rugby training sessions. METHODS Participants were 75 males age 14 to 18 y who were recruited from rugby teams represe...

Background: In-service education is one of the best and major methods to provide, train and improve the performance of the staffs. This study aims to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the virtual trainings from the staffs' perspective of Mashhad University of medical sciences. Methods: this is a cross-sectional study conducted among staffs from different parts of the therapy department ...

Introduction: Ensuring maximum patient safety as well as a complete surgical experience is of utmost importance in training for plastic surgery. As plastic surgical training relies on resident participation in various procedures, we must guarantee adequate hands-on operative time while maintaining the best possible outcomes for the patient. The effect of resident involvement on the outcomes of ...

MyUniversity is a European project to foster the eParticipation in European higher education institutions and allow their members to influence the final decision making performed by the institutions’ authorities. A framework, composed of the two existing interactive tools Gov2Demoss and Pnyx.eVoting, and a methodology to manage eParticipation initiatives have been created for this purpose. This...

This study reports the impact of high sensitivity to early exchange in 11-grade, CSCL triads solving welland ill-structured problems in Newtonian Kinematics. Analysis of the evolution of participation inequity (PI) in group discussions suggested that participation levels tended to get locked-in relatively early on in the discussion. Similarly, high (low) quality member contributions made earlie...

This paper deals with the occupational absorption of female immigrants from the former Soviet Union (now the CIS) into Israel’s labor market, and their participation in subsidized vocational training courses. About 43 percent of these immigrants had participated in such a course during their first five years in Israel. A calibration of a dynamic choice model in which immigrants’ decision regard...

This paper uses a natural experiment approach to identify the effects of an exogenous change in future pension benefits on workers’ training participation. We use unique matched survey and administrative data for male employees in the public sector in the Netherlands who were subject to a major pension reform in 2006. We compare training participation of workers who were born in 1949 and remain...

introduction sustainable agriculture can be more objective than fit into the conceptual framework and it is closely associated with rational behavior. the result of such perspective is that sustainable agriculture is an activity based on rationality. the beginning of the formation of stable rationality requires training to create intellectual flexibility for the farmers in order to acquire know...