• Support professional development • Keep up-to-date with the literature around clinical trial methodology • Disseminate information on and build up debate about good practice • Ensure that professional practice is evidence-based • Learn and practice critical appraisal skills • Develop ideas for research, descriptions of good practice within the unit that could be presented at meetings and/or s...

s for presentations at meetings, includingpresentations external to WRHA pharmacy departments 263160 Presentations within WRHA pharmacy departments,including “lunch and learn” sessions for technicians and Data notpharmacy educational roundsavailable3063 390J CPH – Vol. 63, n 5 – septembre–octobre 2010C JHP – Vol. 63, No. 5 – September–October 2010

This paper presents the SLMeetingRoom, a virtual reality online environment to support group meetings of geographically dispersed participants. A prototype was developed to demonstrate the feasibility of the approach using the Second Life platform. Ten additional components had to be added to Second Life environment to support group work essential activities such as participants' communication,...

When I started the neonatal screening in Japan, I could not obtain the necessary information for establishing the national screening system in my own country. Thus, around 1970, I visited H. Bickel, R. Guthrie and several other experts in the field of the neonatal screening in USA and Europe. Through their help, I could learn: (i) the philosophy of the world of screening, (ii) the way to improv...

Fifty years ago, the Atlantic City meetings, held the first week in May of every year, were attended by all the elite of American academic medicine and all who wanted to join that group. Part of the magic of those meetings was that professors and neophytes took each other seriously and talked to each other.

The ability to skillfully lead meetings can contribute to a manager's effectiveness. There are four types of meetings, each serving different needs and requiring different leadership. A manager must know when to hold meetings, what leadership style is appropriate, how and when to use participative management, and how to facilitate a consensus. Considerable planning must be done before a meeting...

We investigated automatic action item detection from transcripts of multi-party meetings. Unlike previous work (Gruenstein et al., 2005), we use a new hierarchical annotation scheme based on the roles utterances play in the action item assignment process, and propose an approach to automatic detection that promises improved classification accuracy while enabling the extraction of useful informa...