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Emergency Medicine Residency Applicant Views on the Interview Day Process

ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, Issue 2009
Nicole M. DeIorio MD
Abstract Objectives:, Emergency medicine (EM) residency programs spend significant time and money offering an interview day experience for their applicants. The day may include a range of activities, although which are most important from the applicants' point of view are not known. Methods:, An anonymous web-based survey was sent to all applicants to an EM residency program from the 2006/07 cycle. The study assessed factors about the interview day that were most helpful to applicants in assessing goodness of fit and preparing their rank list of programs. Results:, When considering whether a program was a good fit for them, the respondents chose (from most to least important) how happy the residents seem, faculty,resident relationships, how well the residents work together, resident and faculty values match my own, the residents spend time together outside of the residency, and the residents share my outside interests. Applicants most value assessing program "personality," informal off-campus gatherings with residents, and interviewing with the program director as ways to decide where a program will reside on their rank list. Touring off-campus emergency departments and off-service facilities received the lowest rating averages. Conclusions:, Residency programs have the opportunity to control two of the three most important ways in which applicants use the interview day to assess programs by offering off-campus gatherings with residents and ensuring that every candidate interviews with the program director. Residency programs may use this knowledge to optimize interview day resources. [source]

Gender and New Public Management: Reconstituting Academic Subjectivities

GENDER, WORK & ORGANISATION, Issue 4 2002
Robyn Thomas
This article is located within the context of British Higher Education. It examines the ,radical reforms' of New Public Management (NPM) (marketization and managerialism) in the management of university organizations. The article has two main aims. First, to explore the extent to which NPM initiatives have influenced individual women academics's day,to,day experiences of the gendered academy and their professional identities. Second, to understand individuals' active responses to NPM to develop theorizing of individual resistance in public service organizations. Adopting a Foucauldian feminist framework, it is suggested that the introduction of NPM presents a site for political struggle for women academics. The article explores the gendered nature of NPM, to determine how, in three individual universities, different women academics have responded to the ,managerialist challenge'. Finally, the article focuses on the ways in which different women academics might accommodate, resist, or transform the discourses of NPM, the factors facilitating this, and the material outcomes. [source]

Reducing De Novo Donor-Specific Antibody Levels during Acute Rejection Diminishes Renal Allograft Loss

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPLANTATION, Issue 5 2009
M. J. Everly
The effect of de novo DSA detected at the time of acute cellular rejection (ACR) and the response of DSA levels to rejection therapy on renal allograft survival were analyzed. Kidney transplant patients with acute rejection underwent DSA testing at rejection diagnosis with DSA levels quantified using Luminex single-antigen beads. Fifty-two patients experienced acute rejection with 16 (31%) testing positive for de novo DSA. Median follow-up was 27.0 ± 17.4 months postacute rejection. Univariate analysis of factors influencing allograft survival demonstrated significance for African American race, DGF, cytotoxic PRA >20% (current) and/or >50% (peak), de novo DSA, C4d and repeat transplantation. Multivariate analysis showed only de novo DSA (6.6-fold increased allograft loss risk, p = 0.017) to be significant. Four-year allograft survival was higher with ACR (without DSA) (100%) than mixed acute rejection (ACR with DSA/C4d) (65%) or antibody-mediated rejection (35%) (p < 0.001). Patients with >50% reduction in DSA within 14 days experienced higher allograft survival (p = 0.039). De novo DSAs detected at rejection are associated with reduced allograft survival, but prompt DSA reduction was associated with improved allograft survival. DSA should be considered a potential new end point for rejection therapy. [source]

Awareness of toddlers' initial cognitive experiences with virtual reality

JOURNAL OF COMPUTER ASSISTED LEARNING, Issue 4 2001
D. Passig
Abstract In this study Virtual Reality technology was used to simulate a toddler's first few days' experiences in daycare and improve the caregiver's understanding of their state of mind. The virtual worlds were developed in accordance with toddlers' way of thinking and from their cognitive and visual viewpoint. The aim of the research was to investigate whether the caregiver's awareness to the cognitive experiences that toddlers undergo in their first days in kindergarten improves through a VR simulation of toddlers' worlds. Six cognitive elements of toddlers were simulated: object constancy; trial and error; perspective of height; perspective of things; egocentricity and imagination. The participants in this study were 40 (female) caregivers who work with infants aged 6 months to 4 years in private daycare. The findings indicate that experiencing a virtual world that reflects the real world of children improves the caregiver's awareness to the cognitive experiences that toddlers undergo in their first days in a kindergarten or daycare. [source]