BACKGROUND Surgery can effectively palliate symptoms in patients with advanced malignancy and thereby maintain quality of life. However, the goal of surgical palliation should be balanced with the associated risks, and the decision to operate can be challenging for even the most experienced surgeon. HYPOTHESIS There are significant deficiencies in training during residency and in continuing m...

Because public health challenges are changing rapidly, over the past 3 years, we have turned a critical eye to the master of public health program at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Under a process dubbed "curriculum renewal," we engaged more than 170 faculty, staff, and students (and hundreds of alumni and employers of our graduates) in an initiative to develop a compl...

A nationally representative sample of basic and paramedic emergency medical service providers in the United States was surveyed to assess their willingness to respond to terrorist incidents. EMT's were appreciably (9-13%) less willing than able to respond to such potential terrorist-related incidents as smallpox outbreaks, chemical attacks, or radioactive dirty bombs (p<0.0001). EMTs who had re...

Does Military Draft Discourage Enrollment in Higher Education? Evidence from OECD Countries Using data from 1960-2000 for OECD countries, we analyze the impact of compulsory military service on the demand for higher education, measured by students enrolled in tertiary education as a share of the working-age population. Based on a theoretical model, we hypothesize that military draft has a negat...

MOOC adoption is growing, and several challenges are presented with it. One of them is the use of innovative tools for learning, with a special emphasis in having learners to represent their acquired knowledge in creative forms; therefore, some experiences in that regard will be introduced. Thus, orchestrating the learning experience with cloud-based external tools (realized as Web 2.0 tools) b...

Thirty nursing auxiliaries at a Brazilian hospital were trained in intramuscular injection at the ventrogluteal site in a lecture delivered by videoconference (over an IP connection at up to 512 kbit/s). Participants were able thereafter to practise on the same manikins used for demonstration during the lecture, until they felt confident in carrying out the procedure. They then completed an eva...

introduction. shiraz university of medical sciences presents surgical facilities in two services, the morning and the afternoon services. in this study,the number and type of ent operations performed in these two services during a 12 months period in khalili hospital were compared to find out the differences between the operations performed in these services and the role they have in the educat...

OBJECTIVE To develop and implement a service model for people with spinal cord injury (SCI) living in rural regions. DESIGN Service development, pilot evaluation study. SETTING Regional and remote areas of the state of New South Wales, Australia. PARTICIPANTS Persons with SCI, caregivers, and health professionals. INTERVENTION Phase 1 included initial needs analysis, followed by educati...

ABSTRACT The rural special education context is unique because of the distinct environment and the variety of rural school subcultures. However, little information about rural special education is available prior to the late 1970's, partially because federal agencies lacked a working definition of "rural._" Although rural and urban special education service environments vary greatly (especially...

This work describes a semantic service description model based on and inspired by existing service description approaches like WSDL-S and OWL-S and a service registry to support the creation of service oriented applications in the area of education and training. Our service description is based on an OWL ontology and combines a simple messageand state-oriented approach in order to reduce the ef...