Heroic and risky endeavor

Heroic Medicine

Nearly 60 years after he died, surgeons from around the world still honour the memory of Sir Robert Jones, the father of modern British orthopaedics. Sir Robert lived and worked at a time when crippled children were a common sight on Britain's streets, and one of his greatest achievements was to show that many of these children-the victims chiefly of tuberculosis, rickets, and poliomyelitis-cou...

Certification: a rewarding endeavor.

About the Author Stephanie Stephens, MA, is a freelance writer, producer, and multimedia expert. Early in his career, Paul Kelley, like many other biomedical equipment technicians, struggled to understand the benefits of professional certification. " People who were certified weren't always the cream of the crop, " Kelley, who started in 1979 and now is director of biomedical engineering and gr...

Gastrointestinal Motility Online Educational Endeavor

Medical information has been traditionally maintained in books, journals, and specialty periodicals. A growing subset of patients and caregivers are now turning to diverse sources on the internet to retrieve healthcare related information. The next area of growth will be sites that serve specialty fields of medicine, characterized by high quality of data culled from scholarly publications and o...

Proceedings Student Research and Creative Endeavor Symposium

Problematizing as a scientific endeavor

The work of physics learners at all levels revolves around problems. Physics education research has inspired attention to the forms of these problems, whether conceptual or algorithmic, closed or open response, well or ill structured. Meanwhile, it has been the work of curriculum developers and instructors to develop these problems. Physics education research has supported these efforts with st...