Evolving Beyond the World Foods Course: Creating Racially and Ethnically Inclusive Educational Spaces for Dietetics Students

Only 13.1% of US registered dietitian nutritionists and 27.8% of students enrolled in US dietetics education programs identify as racially/ethnically diverse individuals. National demographic trends show increasing percentages of racially/ethnically diverse individuals within the broader US and college student populations; however, these changes have not been mirrored within dietetics. Dietetics educators have an ethical and professional mandate to address diversity, equity, and inclusion within their programs. This paper reviews key terminology related to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the context of dietetics education, and describes a new framework to transform dietetics education based on the principles of cultural humility and culturally sustaining teaching. Strategies are presented to facilitate recruitment, admissions, retention, and mentorship for racially/ethnically diverse students and faculty, and to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion within curricula and classrooms. Lastly, this paper provides clear practice applications, including recommendations for program policy change and training/skill building activities for dietetics students, educators, and preceptors.     

司法公正根植于法官的职业道德素质

在法治国家里 ,司法是保护公民权益、维护社会正义的最后一道屏障 ,因而司法裁断的公正与否直接关系到社会正义能否实现 ,并进而影响着公众对法律制度的信心和信赖。司法公正根植于法官的职业道德素质 ,从我国的司法现状及现实需要出发 ,法官应确立公正、独立、廉洁、行为正当、勤勉尽责、忠于职守的道德规范与行为规则。我国在加强法官职业道德建设和规范法官行为操守的工作中 ,必须改变以前单纯地以政治素质代表职业道德的作法 ,对法官思想素质方面的要求要体现出与其他职业、岗位的本质区别 ;改变以前由上级对下级、领导对群众灌输的教育方式 ,应使法官从根本上认识到司法活动的职业特点 ;改变以前那种认为职业道德属于可抓可不抓的观念 ,认识到法官职业道德是法官行为的基本准则 ,关系到司法能否公正和公众对法治的信仰等根本性问题 ;改变道德修养应靠自身修养的观念 ,认识到营造崇尚公平正义、遵守职业道德和行为操守规则的环境是培养法官良好职业道德的重要措施。     

语感教学:语文教育新视角

语文能力的核心是语言能力,语言能力的培养首先表现在如何提高学生的语感素质。加强语文教育中的语感教学,构建培养语感的教学实践体系,势在必行。     

El manejo de la torsión testicular en Urgencias: lecciones aprendidas de las reclamaciones por responsabilidad profesional médica

ObjectiveTo evaluate emergency care for testicular torsion in medical professional liability claims.MethodClaims related to testicular torsion from 2000 to 2018 were located. The assistance provided and the association with medical professional liability were analyzed.ResultsEighty complaints were identified, testicular pain was reported in 83.75% of first consultations, with a mean evolution time of 15.5 h. The mean time to diagnosis was 7.98 days. The first consultation was at the hospital in 75.1% of cases, but an ultrasound was performed only in 7.5%. When testicular torsion diagnosis was performed, 97.3% had undergone ancillary tests. The medical professional liability was significantly associated with non-criminal proceedings and with less than 6 h of symptoms’ evolution, and, within this subgroup, without undergoing an ultrasound scan.ConclusionsLate consultations, wrong diagnosis and late diagnosis are claimed. When medical professional liability are claimed by means of non-criminal law, the existence of responsibility is frequently considered, even more in those cases when the consultation took place before 6 h of evolution with no ancillary tests having been performed.     

磁性医院管理对基层托管二级民营医院护士离职率的影响

目的 探讨磁性医院管理在基层托管二级民营医院的实践效果.方法 将磁性医院管理应用于托管二级民营医院:培养护理管理者领导力、建立有效激励机制、构建支持性工作环境、打造磁性医院关爱文化等,增强临床护士凝聚力.比较实施前后护士职业价值观、离职意愿及离职率状况.结果 实施磁性医院管理实践后,临床护士职业价值观评分显著高于实施前,离职意愿评分显著低于实施前(均P＜0.05);离职率由2017年33.05％降至2020年6.19％ (P＜0.01).结论 磁性医院管理能引导临床护士建立正确的职业价值观,降低护士离职意愿及离职率.     

Natural language processing and entrustable professional activity text feedback in surgery: A machine learning model of resident autonomy

BackgroundEntrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) contain narrative ‘entrustment roadmaps’ designed to describe specific behaviors associated with different entrustment levels. However, these roadmaps were created using expert committee consensus, with little data available for guidance. Analysis of actual EPA assessment narrative comments using natural language processing may enhance our understanding of resident entrustment in actual practice.MethodsAll text comments associated with EPA microassessments at a single institution were combined. EPA—entrustment level pairs (e.g. Gallbladder Disease—Level 1) were identified as documents. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), a common machine learning algorithm, was used to identify latent topics in the documents associated with a single EPA. These topics were then reviewed for interpretability by human raters.ResultsOver 18 months, 1015 faculty EPA microassessments were collected from 64 faculty for 80 residents. LDA analysis identified topics that mapped 1:1 to EPA entrustment levels (Gammas >0.99). These LDA topics appeared to trend coherently with entrustment levels (words demonstrating high entrustment were consistently found in high entrustment topics, word demonstrating low entrustment were found in low entrustment topics).ConclusionsLDA is capable of identifying topics relevant to progressive surgical entrustment and autonomy in EPA comments. These topics provide insight into key behaviors that drive different level of resident autonomy and may allow for data-driven revision of EPA entrustment maps.     

Setting standards of performance expected in neurosurgery residency: A study on entrustable professional activities in competency-based medical education

BackgroundCompetency-based medical education requires evaluations of residents’ performances of tasks of the discipline (ie. entrustable professional activities (EPAs)). Using neurosurgical Faculty perspectives, this study investigated whether a sample of neurosurgical EPAs accurately reflected the expectations of general neurosurgical practice.MethodA questionnaire was sent to all Canadian neurosurgery Faculty using a SurveyMonkey® platform.ResultsThe proportion of respondents who believed the EPAs were representative of general neurosurgery competences varied significantly across all EPAs [47%–100%] (p < 0.0001). For 9/15 proposed EPAs, ≥75% agreed they were appropriate for general neurosurgery training and expected residents to attain the highest standard of performance. However, a range of 27–53% of the respondents felt the other six EPAs would be more appropriate for fellowship training and thus, require a lower standard of performance from graduating residents.ConclusionThe shift towards subspecialization in neurosurgery has implications for curriculum design, delivery and certification of graduating residents.     

Professional project for wound healing clinicians

This article explores the professional project for an emergent subaltern specialist community of wound healing clinicians. Drawing on the literature on professions and boundary work, it examines how wound healing clinicians challenge the perception of their work as ‘dirty’ and seek its transformation into a specialism of ‘woundology’. The article is based on an ethnography of a UK multidisciplinary team of doctors and nurses with an interest and expertise in wound healing, who work as clinical academics and provide wound care services in outpatient clinics. It demonstrates that wound healing clinicians vindicate their professional status by seeking to enthral the medical community in ‘dirty wound care’ as a focused clinical specialty of ‘woundology’. Through training nurses to do medical wound care work, educating clinicians from other specialties about wounds and undertaking wound research, wound healing clinicians assert the professional boundaries of their specialism and its fit with mainstream medicine without embellishing the dirty aspects of their work.     

The association between decision-making skills and subjective decision outcomes among administrative officers in the Swedish Social Insurance Agency

Social insurance administrative officers’ decision-making skills influence their efficiency at work and their general well-being. At work their tasks are characterised by complexity and a need for order and accountability. Moreover, cases should usually be handled and finalised within the imposed time frames. We investigated skills related to decision-making success among social insurance officers. In total, 118 administrative officers at the Swedish Social Insurance Agency (66% response rate) responded to questions on scales and measures relating to cognitive-rational, socio-emotional and time approach features of decision-making skill. In addition, they responded to questions on three scales pertaining to outcomes of everyday decisions in terms of subjective everyday difficulties, tendencies to burnout and depressive symptoms. The results showed that cognitive-rational competence was associated with lower reports of subjective everyday difficulties and depressive symptoms and thereby contributed to the explained variance in decision outcomes. Furthermore, socio-emotional and time approach features of decision-making skills contributed to the explanation for subjective everyday difficulties, tendencies to burnout and depressive symptoms. The results corroborate the basic assumption and usefulness of a broad approach in the definition and assessment of decision-making skills in human service professions in general, and of administrative officers in social insurance agencies in particular. Recommendations for future research and the implications of the results are discussed.     

医学高职高专教育英语教学模式研究

目的 :探讨适合医学高职高专教育的英语教学模式。方法 :通过对 10个医疗单位和开封医专往届毕业生调查 ,英语在实际工作中的运用 ,并对其调查结果用卡氏检验法进行统计。结论 :现有的医学高职高专教育的英语教学模式不适合医学高职高专教育的培养目标。结果 :医学高职高专教育英语教学模式应把基础英语和专业英语放到同等重要位置 ,旨在培养学生在实际工作中运用语言的能力