Methods Retrospective analysis of the Latin America Sepsis Institute (LASI) database, from 2005 to 2014. Participation was voluntary. The implementation process was based on a multifaceted intervention including a local sepsis team, protocols, screening procedures, laboratory and antibiotics flowchart for emergency department (ED), wards and intensive care units (ICU), checklists, physicians an...

Here are outlines and contact emails for second semester TSP projects. This list is by no means exhaustive, and if there’s a particular staff member or group you’d like to work with, you should contact them directly. It can be more efficient for supervisors if students work in pairs but this is not mandatory. Helen Johnston & Steve Flammia, June 1, 2015 [email protected], s.flammia@phy...

OBJECTIVES As a fundamental element of medical practice, clinical reasoning should be cultivated in courses of study in human medicine. To date, however, no conclusive evidence has been offered as to what forms of teaching and learning are most effective in achieving this goal. The Diagnostic Thinking Inventory (DTI) was developed as a means of measuring knowledge-unrelated components of clinic...

INTRODUCTION Problem-based learning (PBL) in medicine emphasises the tutor's role in facilitating collaborative and integrated learning. While it is widely recognised that tutors come to know their students, they traditionally play little part in the formal assessment process. We introduced tutor assessment into a problem-based medical curriculum and examined the patterns of tutor marks in four...

BACKGROUND Students who fail to thrive on the Nottingham undergraduate medical course frequently suffer from anxiety, depression or other mental health problems. These difficulties may be the cause, or the result of, academic struggling. Early detection of vulnerable students might direct pastoral care and remedial support to where it is needed. We investigated the use of the short-form General...

The purpose of this research paper is to investigate the changes in motivational constructs for First-Year engineering students based on the revision of one of the introductory courses in the first year program in a large, public university. The course was revised as part of the assessment of the first year curriculum, with specific goals that include more effectively supporting student motivat...

Here are outlines and contact emails for second semester TSP projects. This list is by no means exhaustive, and if there’s a particular staff member or group you’d like to work with, you should contact them directly. It can be more efficient for supervisors if students work in pairs but this is not mandatory. Helen Johnston & Steve Flammia, June 3, 2016 [email protected], s.flammia@phy...

The marks were generally in line with results from previous years and the performance on the questions were usually at the same level for a given student, indicating that the questions were equal in difficulty. The main problems were to do with students running out of time. This was often because they gave a large amount of writing in answer to some of the questions rather than answering the qu...

The authors investigated the extent to which social support and coping account for the association between greater optimism and better adjustment to stressful life events. College students of both genders completed measures of perceived stress, depression, friendship network size, and perceived social support at the beginning and end of their 1st semester of college. Coping was assessed at the ...