There is no specific structured training programme for doctors working in prehospital care in the United Kingdom. In the West Midlands (UK) a structured supervised programme has been devised, which recruits medical undergraduates and provides an educational programme and practical experience leading to the successful completion of the Diploma in Immediate Medical Care and the status of an indep...

The Royal College of Psychiatrists and the General Medical Council (GMC) identify teaching as a key competency and attribute of professional medical training and practice. Teaching child and adolescent psychiatry to undergraduates, however, poses certain challenges. The specialty calls for clinicians to consider complex biological, psychological and social processes, all in the context of child...

Introduction Pre-hospital emergency medicine is an emerging subspecialty in which medical undergraduates traditionally often receive little or no formal training. This article describes one academic programme at a London medical school, which comprises of a partnership between the school, the local ambulance and the air ambulance service. It is believed that this programme is unique in its stru...

the goal of this study was to investigate the kinds of discourse goals that iranian efl learners perceive as the most probable reasons behind the utterance of figurative language, metaphors and similes, with reference to 4 independent variables of figure type (metaphor or simile), tenor concreteness (concrete or abstract), context (list format or story), and modality (oral, written, and both). ...

Lemon and colleagues [1] published an interesting article shedding light on an issue which I call: ‘research skills: the neglected competency in tomorrow’s 21st century doctors’. The authors asserted the unrecognized compulsoriness of research skills for medical undergraduates [1]. This perspective has been also emphasized by the Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research Univ...

IN an attempt to obtain a better understanding of the factors which influence career decisions and stability of choice, Northern Ireland Council for Postgraduate Medical Education, in conjunction with the Faculty of Medicine at Queen's University, undertook a longitudinal survey of career preferences and desired location of practice of three cohorts of Queen's medical undergraduates in 1977. Qu...

This paper documents an undergraduate course at Hunter College, in which one instructor, six undergraduates, and one high school student built 17 machine translation systems in six months from scratch. The team successfully participated in the second Conference on Machine Translation (WMT17) evaluation on the news task in Finnish-English and Latvian-English and on the bio-medical task in French...

“happy talk” so prevalent in international organizations, national governments, and nongovernmental organizations, as it leads to overestimation of response capabilities. Finally, Kimball warns that the lack of universal health insurance in the United States actually increases societal vulnerability to contagion. In sum, this is a very good book, well-suited to public health practitioners and m...

cjuencv.' and "Absorption of stimulus energy." Further chapters are devoted to triggering of impulses by stimuli, to receptor potentials, and to an attempt to relate sensory cell function and basic morphology. This book was written for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students. I think that medical students will find it instructive, as will those members of the medical profession ...

cjuencv.' and "Absorption of stimulus energy." Further chapters are devoted to triggering of impulses by stimuli, to receptor potentials, and to an attempt to relate sensory cell function and basic morphology. This book was written for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students. I think that medical students will find it instructive, as will those members of the medical profession ...