First-time faculty librarian, first year experience: Overcoming tenure fears

The FIRST+ Year Information Systems Faculty Experience

PCNL (percutaneous nephrolithotomy): first year experience.

First year clinical tutorials: students’ learning experience

BACKGROUND Bedside teaching lies at the heart of medical education. The learning environment afforded to students during clinical tutorials contributes substantially to their knowledge, thinking, and learning. Situated cognition theory posits that the depth and breadth of the students' learning experience is dependent upon the attitude of the clinical teacher, the structure of the tutorial, and...

Metro Stroke Task Force: first-year experience.

According to recent statistics, stroke is the third leading cause of death and a leading cause of serious, long-term disability. Of the estimated 40 000 ischemic strokes per month in the United States, only approximately 2% are being treated with tPA. A primary reason for the underutilization of tPA is the lack of public awareness of stroke warning signs and the urgent nature of stroke. In an a...

CT-guided stereotaxy: first 10-year experience.

The authors present an overview on CT-guided stereotaxy performed in the last 10 years in the University Hospital Olomouc. During this period a total of 811 stereotactic brain operations were performed. Of these, 710 were done in the field of afunctional and 101 in the field of functional stereotaxy. The majority of procedures were biopsies of intracranial lesions (n = 464), evacuations of intr...