BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The American Board of Family Practice (ABFP) In-training Exam (ITE) is one of the tools used to evaluate both a resident's progress through residency and the program itself. Investigators have examined the ITE's validity and reliability and predictors of resident performance, but no published studies have reported the effects of initiatives to improve residents' perfor...

Multi-modal visualization, as a tool for collaborative exploration of complex datasets or simulations, is rapidly becoming important. In this paper we discuss a case study in collabo-rative visualization on Robot soccer. Our visualization work covers the three major platform types: Cave, workbench and workstation. We chart what the relation is between platform and visualization and show what th...

Cell encapsulation provides a three-dimensional support by incorporating isolated cells into microcapsules with the goal of simultaneously maintaining cell survival and function, as well as providing active transport for a bioreactor in vitro similarly to that observed in vivo. However, the biotra-nsformation and metabolic functions of the encapsulated cells are not satisfactory for clinical ap...

BACKGROUND Teachers are a key part of the wider public health workforce in England. We conducted a survey to find out how they are trained for this role during their initial teacher education (ITE). METHODS Between 2011 and 2012, we sent an online questionnaire to 220 ITE course managers and conducted semi-structured interviews with a purposive sample of 19 course managers to explore issues i...

In recent times, Ireland’s post-primary schools have experienced considerable social, cultural, economic and technological change. As a result newly qualified teachers are entering an increasingly diverse rapidly changing school environment. Studies indicate diversity gap between the profile of pupils, in schools; whereby homogenous population teachers, teach heterogeneous students. Consequentl...

OBJECTIVE: Existing systems of in-training evaluation (ITE) have been criticized as being unreliable and invalid methods for assessing student performance during clinical education. The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility, reliability, and validity of a clinical work sampling (CWS) approach to ITE. This approach focused on the following: (1) basing performance data on observed b...

This paper reports on a study that investigated the process and outcomes of using Appreciative Inquiry (AI) in an Australian initial teacher education (ITE) program review. The aim of the study, which drew on a sample of teaching staff involved in this Master of Teaching program, was to gain an understanding of the extent to which the application of the AI framework can be used effectively in t...

Introduction While genitourinary tuberculosis (GUTB) accounts for up to 30% of extrapulmonary TB, epididymal involve ment accounts for only about 20% of GUTB1,2. Only a paucity of cases regarding epididymo-orchitis and scrotal involvement without renal or pulmonary involvement has been reported until today3–5. Clinical manifestations of this rare situation are variable and may include fever, in...

Corruption is an important economic variable but one that is extremely difficult to measure. As a result, researchers have resorted to using perception indexes as a proxy for true corruption. Recent studies suggest that perception measures are inaccurate, and have encouraged the use of methodologies that can measure fact-based corruption – corruption that actually takes place. In this paper, we...