BACKGROUND Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) are increasingly used as a focus for assessment in graduate medical education (GME). However, a consistent approach to guide EPA design is currently lacking, in particular concerning the actual content (knowledge, skills and attitude required for specific tasks) for EPAs. This paper describes a comprehensive five stage approach, which was us...

there is a general consensus that climate change has impact on the intensity and frequency of rainfall events. however, very little research is available about the changes in short term rainfall extremes. the focus of this paper has been on the change in annual and monthly rainfall extremes in ontario. the results indicate a greater variability (increase and decrease) among stations for shorter...

Cluster interactions are imperative in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET). Multicast is an proficient technique for implementing cluster connections. However, it is exigent to execute competent and scalable multicast in MANET due to the intricacy in faction association supervision and multicast packet forwarding over a dynamic topology. We intend a novel Efficient Geographic Multicast Protocol (EGM...

AIM Occupational therapists frequently undertake the role of practice educator contributing to the development of the future workforce, however, little is known about how they effectively perform this role. This study aimed to elucidate students' perspectives on what makes an excellent practice educator. METHOD Documentation for 124 Practice Excellence Commendations nominations by Queensland ...

BACKGROUND Conduction of thesis by the students is one of their major academic activities. Thesis quality and acquired experiences are highly dependent on the supervision. Our study is aimed at identifing the challenges in thesis supervision from both students and faculty members point of view. METHODS This study was conducted using individual in-depth interviews and Focus Group Discussions (...

There is currently considerable concern about the attractiveness of hospital medicine as a career and experiences in core medical training (CMT) are a key determinant of whether trainees continue in the medical specialties. Little is understood about the quality and impact of the current CMT programme and this survey was designed to assess this. Three key themes emerged. Firstly, the demands of...

We develop an efficiency wages model, to study the effects of the imposition of a higher minimum wage on employment of heterogeneous workers, when employers use the wage and monitoring intensity to induce motivation. It is shown that when effort is adjusted to exogenous shocks then the wage and supervision, and employment and supervision can be either strategic complements or strategic substitu...