OC09.05: Low Papp‐A at booking: is serial ultrasound surveillance warranted?

Is the Optimism in Optimistic Concurrency Warranted?

Optimistic synchronization allows concurrent execution of critical sections while performing dynamic conflict detection and recovery. Optimistic synchronization will increase performance only if critical regions are data independent—concurrent critical sections access disjoint data most of the time. Optimistic synchronization primitives, such as transactional memory, will improve the performanc...

Fieldwork Supervision: More Education Is Warranted

The consensus within our profession is that the fieldwork experience plays an integral role in an occupational therapist's professional development. In 1923, the first educational standards requiring fieldwork experiences were approved by the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) Today, in addition to academic course work, 6 months of supervised fieldwork is a required prerequisite f...

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Fieldwork supervision: more education is warranted.

Students completing fieldwork are the future of our profession. We can no longer allow our fieldwork educators to develop skills to supervise, teach, and evaluate students on a trial-and-error basis. By allocating resources to develop continuing education materials to be used in developing these skills, the profession will be acknowledging its long-standing espoused commitment to fieldwork. The...

The waterpolo shoulder paradigm: results of ultrasound surveillance at poolside

BACKGROUND Waterpolo consists of a combination of swimming and throwing with close contact between players. The shoulder is the most frequently injured joint, with a combination of rotator cuff tear and tendinopathy, long head biceps tendinopathy, superior labral lesions and shoulder impingement. This unique combination is a challenge for the clinician who must determine which of these shoulder...