Acknowledgements The work presented in this thesis is not only the product of my effort, but also a product of the support of countless individuals around me. I would like to thank my advisor, Dr. Agnieszka Roginska, for welcoming me aboard her research project, a portion of which constitutes this thesis. For being a teacher and a guide through the entirety of my graduate education. For pushing...

The Statistical Consulting Centre at The University of Melbourne has been providing a postgraduate consulting service for many years. Each year, the service is used by about 200 students who come from a wide range of disciplines. Consultants can assist these highly motivated students with any part of the research cycle, from refining a research question and developing a suitable design to prese...

OBJECTIVE To introduce the paper by Kuhn et al. "Informatics and Medicine: From Molecules to Populations" and the papers that follow on this special topic in this issue of Methods of Information in Medicine, which opens a debate on the Kuhn et al. paper's assertions by an international panel of invited researchers in biomedical informatics. METHOD An introductory summary and comparative revie...

A major component of a successful graduate education is the student's professional family developed throughout the graduate program. Not only important to the student are those directly guiding him or her, such as the advisor and graduate committee, but also those who directly or indirectly influence the student's competence, philosophy, ethics, outlook, and professional development in the chos...

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Working with and through art in the context of mental health has become popular and quite well known amongst social workers, community workers, nurses, artists and teachers. Many seek art therapy skills, and agreater understandingof theuseof art inhealing. In parts of theworldwhere there is noprofessional art therapy training and no established art therapy profession, some may go on to call the...

The College of Human Environmental Sciences (CHES) is composed of three departments—Design, Housing and Merchandising; Family Relations and Child Development; and Nutritional Sciences—and the School of Hotel and Restaurant Administration. Each science-based program focuses on the reciprocal relationship between people and their natural, constructed or social environments. Graduates pursue profe...

The purpose of this study was to investigate teachers’ perceptions about the use of play to promote social, emotional, and cognitive skills to support planning for a school program aimed at increasing inclusive play for young children. This research was inspired by Vivian Gussin Paley’s book, You Can’t Say You Can’t Play (1992). Participants included undergraduate students and graduate educatio...

OBJECTIVE To pilot test if Orthopaedic Surgery residents could self-assess their performance using newly created milestones, as defined by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education. METHODS In June 2012, an email was sent to Program Directors and administrative coordinators of the 154 accredited Orthopaedic Surgery Programs, asking them to send their residents a link to an onlin...

From the Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC (Dr Englander); and American Board of Pediatrics, Chapel Hill, NC (Dr Carraccio) The views expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the American Board of Pediatrics, the Association of Pediatric Program Directors, or the A...