Closing the gap between professional teaching and practice

Closing the gap between interdisciplinary research and disciplinary teaching.

A s Ph.D. students, and then as postdoctoral associates, future academicians spend 6–8 years getting ready to push hard on the boundaries and interfaces where traditional areas of science overlap. More than ever, however, this broadens the separation between what that faculty member is prepared to carry out in the laboratory and what is expected from a professor in the undergraduate teaching pr...

Closing the Gap between Practice and Education: A Case Study

Managing integrated development, cross-functional teams and strategic planning are challenges that many of today’s business and design leaders face. The pressure to meet these challenges comes from a variety of sources, including: a need to connect with consumers in meaningful new ways, accelerating development cycles, and competitive global markets that require a ready supply of highly creativ...

Closing the gap between NLP research and clinical practice.

This is an exciting time in clinical natural language processing (NLP). Many of the ideas discussed in the NLP community over the last decade have finally come to fruition: we have had shared tasks in the clinical arena [1, 2]; several NLP pipelines have been released as open source resources [3, 4]; the community is working together to develop standards that will increase interoperability of N...

Closing the gap between guidelines and practice in perioperative care.

PATIENTS undergoing noncardiac surgery are at risk of adverse perioperative and long-term outcome. For example, data from the PeriOperative Ischemic Evaluation trial (POISE), which enrolled 8,351 patients undergoing noncardiac surgery, showed a perioperative mortality rate of 2.7%, 1.6% had a cardiovascular death, whereas nonfatal myocardial infarction (MI) was observed in another 4.4% subjects...

MIP: Theory and Practice - Closing the Gap