Geoscape: Lessons Learned from 15 Years of Geoscience Outreach

Lessons learned from ten years of distance learning outreach.

OBJECTIVE The study tested the efficacy of providing distance learning with real-time videoconferencing to broaden high school student knowledge of health careers. METHODS A pilot program was tried out and extended over ten years to include other schools in four different time zones and the National Library of Medicine. Survey results, site visits, and continued school participation were used...

Lessons Learned After 15 Years of Circumferential Bodylift Surgery.

Circumferential bodylift is a powerful procedure for achieving dramatic and natural body contouring changes in the massive weight loss patient. The care of these patients has raised our awareness of several important issues including safety, nutritional status, skin quality, recurrent laxity, surgical steps, and postoperative scars. Integration of this knowledge with various technical modificat...

Lessons learned from 15 years of KIMS and 5 years of ACROSTUDY.

BACKGROUND Pharmacoepidemiological surveys provide a valuable contribution to the continued monitoring of drug-related effects in patients with rare disorders. One of the earliest examples of this type of survey is KIGS (Pfizer International Growth Study Database), which has monitored the safety and effectiveness of growth hormone (GH) therapy in GH-deficient children since its inception in 198...

Lessons Learned from 25 Years of Food Security Research, Capacity-Building, and Outreach

Lessons Learned from 15 Years of Operations Research for French TV Channel TF1

Bouygues’ corporate operations research team (the “Bouygues e-lab”) has been working with this industrial group’s various subsidiaries, including the leading French TV Channel TF1, for the past 15 years. This article presents the achievements obtained with this advertisement broadcaster and tries to identify the practical keys to success in this partnership. In particular, best practices for ma...