Training Grounds Editorial

Guest Editorial: Rethinking research training.

Editorial: Special issue on teaching and training

2090-598X 2014 Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Arab Association of Urology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aju.2014.01.003 Surgery is no longer what we knew it to be. Rapid technological and medical developments, and especially a changing infrastructural, political and ethical environment, have changed the face of modern surgery. This puts more and novel demands on the surgeon...

Guest Editorial: Reflections on Medical Physics Training

The process of tightening qualifications to sit for ABR certification exams in subspecialties of medical physics is reaching the end of its arc. Predictably, this has sparked renewed hue and cry from individuals who would prefer to be offered lucrative careers without being held to those higher standards, as evidenced by a recent discussion thread on the electronic networking site LinkedIn. I o...

Editorial: Education and training for laboratory automation

Laboratory automation has become so commonplace over the last few years that it is widely accepted and fully integrated into our university graduate teaching programmes , but is it really? When we started the Journal in 1978, it was clear that few colleges were in fact teaching laboratory automation and that, particularly in the UK, the basic training for our analysts provided little, if any, b...

Qualitative Grounds

Suppose that all non-qualitative facts are grounded in qualitative facts. I argue that this view naturally comes with a picture in which trans-world identity is indeterminate. But this in turn leads to either pervasive indeterminacy in the non-qualitative, or else contingency in what facts about modality and possible worlds are determinate. 1 Ground and Necessity Shamik Dasgupta argues that we ...