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Bilateral ankle arthritis with mediastinal lymphadenopathy: a clinician's perspective

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RHEUMATIC DISEASES, Issue 3 2006
Lalit DUGGAL
Abstract Aim:, This study is a clinician's perspective of the association of bilateral ankle arthritis with mediastinal lymphadenopathy. Method:, Forty-three patients with bilateral ankle arthritis with mediastinal lymphadenopathy were included in a 14-month prospective follow-up study in our hospital. Complete history, examination and investigations were carried out. Result:, There were 27 female and 16 male patients. Ankle arthritis with tuberculous mediastinal lymphadenopathy was associated in 58.13%, sarcoidosis in 32.5% and 9.3% were non-specific. The patients were clustered in the spring-summer months. Erythema nodosum was found in 14.3%, polyarticular presentation in 25%. Thirteen out of 43 patients (28.2%) had biopsy/fine needle aspiration (FNA), of which 69.23% had histopathological evidence of tuberculosis. Conclusion:, The aetiology of bilateral ankle arthritis associated with mediastinal lymphadenopathy may be tuberculosis as opposed to sarcoidosis. There is a seasonal clustering of these cases. FNA of mediastinal lymphadenopathy is a fairly safe procedure and should be carried out when feasible, for confirmation of diagnosis. [source]

Organizing intelligence: Development of behavioral science and the research based model of business education

JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, Issue 3 2009
William P. Bottom
Conventional history of the predominant, research-based model of business education (RBM) traces its origins to programs initiated by the Ford Foundation after World War II. This paper maps the elite network responsible for developing behavioral science and the Ford Foundation agenda. Archival records of the actions taken by central nodes in the network permit identification of the original vision statement for the model. Analysis also permits tracking progress toward realizing that vision over several decades. Behavioral science was married to business education from the earliest stages of development. The RBM was a fundamental promise made by advocates for social science funding. Appraisals of the model and recommendations for reform must address its full history, not the partial, distorted view that is the conventional account. Implications of this more complete history for business education and for behavioral theory are considered. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source]

Towards more empathic medical students: a medical student hospitalization experience

MEDICAL EDUCATION, Issue 6 2002
Michael Wilkes
Objective, We designed a curricular exercise intended to expose healthy medical students, near the end of their basic science training, to the experience of hospitalization. We attempted to assess how a standardized hospitalization, for medical students just about to start their clinical rotations, was experienced by student participants. Design, A qualitative observational design was used, both to explore the perceptions of the hospitalized students and to generate hypotheses for further exploration. Setting, University and affiliated hospitals. Participants, Second-year medical students, towards the end of their basic science training. Outcome measures, Qualitative assessment of hospitalization experience. Results, Among key themes expressed by student participants were the following: they felt a profound loss of privacy; they found the nursing staff to be caring, attentive and professional, and repeatedly commented about how much time the nurses took to talk and listen to them and to take a complete history; in contrast they were particularly upset about the distance and coldness they felt from the medical staff; they expect this experience to affect their own future practice as physicians. When asked how this might change their attitudes in the future, students' comments generally reflected a primary concern with improving the human aspects of the patient experience. Conclusions, Student participants in a standardized inpatient hospitalization generally experienced strong feelings about issues of privacy, and about interactions with medical and nursing staff, which they expect to have an important impact on their own professional development. [source]

An Australian Outlook on International Affairs?

AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, Issue 3 2009
The Evolution of International Relations Theory in Australia
Disciplinary histories of Australian International Relations (IR) theory have tended to focus on the 1960s , when a number of Australian scholars returned from the UK to take up posts at the Australian National University's Department of International Relations , as the beginning of a discipline that has subsequently flourished through various disciplinary debates and global events. This article offers a preliminary attempt at narrating a more complete history of Australian IR by beginning to recover much-neglected contributions made in the early interwar years. From these earliest years through to the current "era of critical diversity", it is argued, Australian scholars have made considerable contributions not just to the intellectual formation of an Australian outlook on international affairs, but to an understanding of international relations itself. [source]