Virtual Microscopy: A Useful Tool for Meeting Evolving Challenges in the Veterinary Medical Curriculum     

Lori R. Kogan  Kristy L. Dowers  Jacey R. Cerda  Regina M. Schoenfeld-Tacher  Sherry M. Stewart 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2014,23(6):756-762

Veterinary schools, similar to many professional health programs, face a myriad of evolving challenges in delivering their professional curricula including expansion of class size, costs to maintain expensive laboratories, and increased demands on veterinary educators to use curricular time efficiently and creatively. Additionally, exponential expansion of the knowledge base through ongoing biomedical research, educational goals to increase student engagement and clinical reasoning earlier in the curriculum, and students’ desire to access course materials and enhance their educational experience through the use of technology all support the need to reassess traditional microscope laboratories within Professional Veterinary Medical (PVM) educational programs. While there is clear justification for teaching veterinary students how to use a microscope for clinical evaluation of cytological preparations (i.e., complete blood count, urinalysis, fecal analysis, fine needle aspirates, etc.), virtual microscopy may be a viable alternative to using light microscopy for teaching and learning fundamental histological concepts. This article discusses results of a survey given to assess Professional Veterinary Medical students’ perceptions of using virtual microscope for learning basic histology/microscopic anatomy and implications of these results for using virtual microscopy as a pedagogical tool in teaching first-year Professional Veterinary Medical students’ basic histology.  相似文献   

Femininities and Friendship in a College of Education     

Lesley Forrest 《Gender and education》1993,5(2):211-215

In this autobiographical account, the author reminisces on the lives of women students at a college of education in the 1960s and questions the often popularly held belief that communities of women are inherently characterised by unity of purpose and a shared ideology of womanhood.  相似文献   

Surviving the 80s: The Medical,Health and Welfare Libraries Group Conference, 1984.     

Maureen Forrest 《Health information and libraries journal》1984,1(3):165-167

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Evaluating Team and Individual Performance in Basketball     

E. R. Elbel Ph.D.  Dr. Forrest C. Allen 《Research quarterly for exercise and sport》2013,84(3):538-555

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Understanding narrative relations in teacher education     

Michelle Forrest  Terrah Keener  Mary Jane Harkins 《Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education》2010,38(2):87-101

The use of stories in teacher education is ubiquitous; yet, the question regarding how stories help teachers make sense of their professional lives is more complex than it first appears. The authors draw from Adriana Cavarero's understanding of narrative relations as the political site where one's unique singularity is revealed in the desire to have one's story told. They compare her insights to Judith Butler's resignification of injurious speech, examining both positions as they apply to a beginning teacher's efforts to become the professional she admires. It is suggested to teacher educators that they use stories from practice to foreground the tension between a teacher's life and her life-story. By understanding the irresolvable tension of desire to have one's story told, a teacher has a better chance of recognising her own vulnerability and that of her students, and of teaching at the starting place of ethics.  相似文献   

Toward instituting a chaperone policy in outpatient pediatric clinics     

Kenneth W. Feldman  Carol Jenkins  Tyler Laney  Kristy Seidel   《Child abuse & neglect》2009,33(10):709-716

ObjectivesWe sought to evaluate child, parent and medical provider preferences for chaperones for outpatient encounters and to evaluate the acceptability and frequency of utilization following institution of a chaperone policy. Secondarily, we sought to understand what medical history and examinations teens consider “sensitive.”DesignWe conducted an observational study 1 month before and 1 month after institution of outpatient clinic chaperone policy. Post clinic questionnaires were used for patients ≥12 years old, parents, and clinicians. A research assistant observed chaperone use.SettingAdolescent Medicine, Urology, and Rehabilitation Clinics at a regional, tertiary-care pediatric hospital, in a major metropolitan area were studied.ParticipantsConvenience sample: 117 clinic patients during control period and 119 after policy implementation.Main outcome measuresPreferences for and satisfaction with chaperone use were documented.ResultsAlthough non-parent chaperones were usually declined (99.6%), offers were appreciated. Non-parent chaperone use increased modestly (5.3–18.1%).Most patients preferred not to have non-parent chaperones. This preference was greater among older patients (88%), than early teens (52%). After experiencing sensitive examinations, more young adolescent patients (89%) wished their parent had been present than older patients (38%). Patients’ opinions about what constitutes “sensitive” questions and examinations and chaperone preferences varied widely. Providers often did not recognize issues patients and parents considered sensitive questioning (21% agreement), but recognized sensitive physical examinations better (74% agreement). Providers felt chaperones had been a detriment to examination and exams would have gone better without one only 1% of the time.ConclusionsAlthough usually declined, offers of chaperones were appreciated and use of non-parent chaperones increased modestly. Offering chaperones for sensitive examinations may remind providers about appropriate, respectful patient encounters. Implications for children's hospitals’ patient safety and satisfaction, and institutional staff protection and costs are significant.Practice implicationsQuestions and examinations which patients consider sensitive vary widely. Asking patients for their preferences for examination chaperones may reassure them about the appropriateness of examinations, remind staff to conduct respectful examinations and protect providers from accusations of impropriety. Since most chaperone offers are declined, the cost of asking is likely to be minimal.  相似文献   

Anatomical Sciences Education vol.2, issue 6, 2009 cover image     

Tierney Kinnison  Neil David Forrest  Stephen Philip Frean  Sarah Baillie 《Anatomical sciences education》2009,2(6)

Veterinary students at the Royal Veterinary College, University of London learn about bovine abdominal anatomy using a virtual reality simulator, the Haptic Cow. A haptic device is positioned inside a fiberglass model of the rear‐half of a cow, allowing students to palpate virtual abdominal structures via a robotic arm. The Haptic Cow helps to address some of the practical and ethical issues around sourcing and using cadavers and live animals in teaching. Kinnison and her co‐authors discuss use of this simulator in anatomy classes in the current issue of ASE.  相似文献   

Head and neck size and neck strength predict linear and rotational acceleration during purposeful soccer heading     

Jaclyn B. Caccese  Thomas A. Buckley  Ryan T. Tierney  Kristy B. Arbogast  William C. Rose  Joseph J. Glutting 《Sports biomechanics / International Society of Biomechanics in Sports》2018,17(4):462-476

There is increasing societal concern about the long-term effects of repeated impacts from soccer heading, but there is little information about ways to reduce head impact severity. The purpose of this study was to identify factors that contribute to head acceleration during soccer heading. One-hundred soccer players completed 12 controlled soccer headers. Peak linear (PLA) and rotational (PRA) accelerations were measured using a triaxial accelerometer and gyroscope. Head acceleration contributing factors were grouped into 3 categories: size (head mass, neck girth), strength (sternocleidomastoid, upper trapezius) and technique [kinematics (trunk, head-to-trunk range-of-motion), sternocleidomastoid and upper trapezius activity]. Multiple regression analyses indicated size variables explained 22.1% of the variance in PLA and 23.3% of the variance in PRA; strength variables explained 13.3% of the variance in PLA and 17.2% of the variance in PRA; technique variables did not significantly predict PLA or PRA. These findings suggest that head and neck size and neck strength predict PLA and PRA. Anthropometric and neck strength measurements should be considered when determining an athlete’s readiness to begin soccer heading.  相似文献   

Linda Dorrington 1949–2006     

Peter Morgan  Maureen Forrest  Lindsay Curtis 《Health information and libraries journal》2006,23(4):306-307

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Editorial     

Margaret E. S. Forrest 《Health information and libraries journal》2004,21(Z2):3-4

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