Charting a Course for Science

Charting a course for collaboration: a multiteam perspective.

The translation of medical research from bench-to-bedside often requires integrated input from multiple expert teams. These collectives can best be understood through the lens of multiteam systems theory. Team charters are a practical tool thought to facilitate team performance through the creation of explicit shared norms for behavior. We extend the current literature on team charters to the m...

Searching for Solutions in Aquaculture: Charting a Sustainable Course

Aquaculture is currently the fastest growing animal food production sector and will soon supply more than half of the world’s seafood for human consumption. Continued growth in aquaculture production is likely to come from intensification of fish, shellfish, and algae production. Intensification is often accompanied by a range of resource and environmental problems. We review several potential ...

Commentary Cardiopulmonary resuscitation: charting a course for the future

Imagine you have a choice. Tomorrow, you can either be dead, or you can choose a 1% chance of survival. For most of us, it’s an easy decision; the odds of survival aren’t good, but they are better than certain death. Now imagine that you are trying to persuade a patient not to receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). ‘It almost certainly would not work, would only prolong the dying process,...

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Charting a course for advances in physiology education.

Physiologists are currently faced with a spectrum of challenging questions related to education. The broad questions of what should be taught at various levels (e.g., secondary, college, professional), who should do the teaching, and how can we maximize learning by students at various levels encompass a variety of issues that are impacted by both scientific and social factors. What constitutes ...