This paper addresses the conditions underlying a realistic integration of Humanities in the training of doctors. By considering the progressive reduction of modern medicine to a merely quantitative and functionalist science as well as the ongoing anti-humanistic trend, we argue for a different way to conceptualize the insertion of Humanities in medicine. Specifically, if they are responsibly or...

A system is presented that produces images that simulate pictorial representations for both scientific and biomedical visualization. It combines traditional and novel volume illustration techniques. We present examples to distill representational techniques for both creative exploration and emphatic presentation for clarity. More specifically, we present adaptations of these techniques for inte...

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 15 February 2010 192 4 180-181 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2010 www.mja.com.au Editorials in which continual improvement is vitally importan part of Australia’s National Medicines Policy and invo selection of treatment options (including choice bet non-drug treatment and no treatment), appropri medicines when they are required, and safe and ...

True integration requires a shift in all levels of medical and allied health education; one that emphasizes team learning, practicing, and evaluating from the beginning of each students' educational experience whether that is as physician, nurse, psychologist, or any other health profession. Integration of healthcare services will not occur until medical education focuses, like the human body, ...

subject as well as in the new methods of its presentation. This is a problem very similar to that which has to be faced in the feld of medical education. There is a new and important job for universities in this matter. It is their business to collaborate with professional organisations of a variety of kinds as well as, in the field of teaching, with Local Authorities, to try to facilitate this...

To verify the effectiveness of STU and STS for measures of muscle strength, power and balance, we computed withinsubject standardized mean differences as SMDw = (mean pre-test value mean post-test value)/standard deviation pre-test value, and between-subject standardized mean differences as SMDb = (mean post-test value in intervention group mean post-test value in control group)/pooled variance...

To solve ever more complex and longer tasks, mobile robots need to generate more elaborate plans and must handle dynamic environments and incomplete knowledge. We address this challenge by integrating two seemingly different approaches – PDDL-based planning for efficient plan generation and GOLOG for highly expressive behavior specification – in a coherent framework that supports continual plan...

Autonomous agents that sense, reason, and act in real-world environments for extended periods often need to solve streams of incoming problems. Traditionally, effort is applied only to problems that have already arrived and have been noted. We examine continual computation methods that allow agents to ideally allocate time to solving current as well as potential future problems under uncertaint...

In competitive coevolution, the goal is to establish an “arms race” that will lead to increasingly sophisticated strategies. However, in practice, the process often leads to idiosyncrasies rather than continual improvement. Applying the NEAT method for evolving neural networks to a competitive simulated robot duel domain, we will demonstrate that (1) as evolution progresses the networks become ...

BACKGROUND Residents and interns are recognized as important clinical teachers and mentors. Resident-as-teacher training programs are known to improve resident attitudes and perceptions toward teaching, as well as their theoretical knowledge, skills, and teaching behavior. The effect of resident-as-teacher programs on learning outcomes of medical students, however, remains unknown. An intervent...