PURPOSE A pilot study was carried out to evaluate the practicality, reliability, and validity of an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) for assessing the clinical skills and abilities of specialists in ophthalmology. METHODS Ten unfolded OSCE style, criterion referenced questions were asked to nine candidates to assess their clinical skills and abilities, as opposed to subject kn...

combination of features; the target cannot be characterized by a single unique attribute. An example of a conjunction search task is a target that is a bright vertical Background Visual search is an everyday task. One might search for line among distractors that are dark vertical lines and bright tilted lines. Neither brightness nor orientation a familiar face in a crowd, or a memo on a clutter...

Semantic mastery includes quickly identifying object and action referents in the environment. Given the relational nature of action verbs compared to object nouns, how do these processes differ in children and adults? To address this question the Event Related Potentials (EPRs) of 8-9 year olds and adults were recorded as they performed a picture-matching task in which a noun (chair) or verb (s...

Thank you to BJSM guest editor Steven Blair and all our January and February authors (http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/ vol43/issue1; http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/ vol43/issue2). If we apply Bono’s battle cry ‘‘There has been a lot of talk, maybe too much talk’’...to the subject of physical inactivity, we can now proclaim it’s time for action. The January and February BJSM issues bring together globa...