"Busting the hidden curriculum" a realist and innovative perspective to foster professional behaviors.

Contemporary health professions education has long delineated the desired attributes of medical professionalism in the form of standard curricula and their role in forming professional behaviors (PBs) among aspiring doctors. However, existing research has shown the contradictory and powerful role of hidden curriculum (HC) in negatively influencing medical students' PBs through unspoken or implicit academic, cultural, or social standards and practices. These contrasting messages of formal curricula and HC lead to discordance and incongruence in future healthcare professionals developing professional identity formation.

Validating a theory of planned behavior questionnaire for assessing changes in professional behaviors of medical students.

Introduction: Teaching professionalism is a fundamental aspect of medical undergraduate education, delivering important domains of professional attitudes, ethics, and behaviors. The effects of educational interventions can be assessed by measuring the change in such domains, but validated assessment tools for these professionalism domains are lacking. In this study, we constructed and conducted expert validation of a modified theory of planned behavior (TPB) questionnaire to assess changes in professional behaviors (PBs) in medical students.

Understanding medical professionalism using express team-based learning; a qualitative case-based study.

Medical Professionalism (MP) defined as values, behaviours and attitudes that promote professional relationships, public trust and patient safety is a vital competency in health profession education. MP has a distinctive uniqueness due to cultural, contextual, conceptual, and generational variations. There is no standard instructional strategy to probe the understanding of MP in a cohesive, structured, interactive manner.

Influence of the Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG) on the local atmospheric environment.

A survey around a recently-fueled MMRTG in the terrestrial atmosphere finds a warm air plume with a characteristic updraft velocity of ~1 m/s and a temperature rise of ~4 ​K. Additionally, a roughly hundredfold enhancement in ion density to ~70,000/cm in the vicinity (<~1 ​m) of the generator was observed: air electrical conductivity was measured to be ~10 ​S/m. No evidence of ozone production was detected.

The 'connectaholic' behind the curtain: medical student use of computer devices in the clinical setting and the influence of patients.

Background: The use of mobile devices such as tablets and laptops by students to support their learning is now ubiquitous. The clinical setting is an environment, which lends itself to the use of mobile devices as students are exposed to novel clinical scenarios that may require rapid location of information to address knowledge gaps. It is unknown what preferences students have for these devices and how they are used in the clinical environment.

Design and Evaluation of a New National Pharmacy Internship Program in Ireland.

To design, deliver, and evaluate a National Pharmacy Internship Program that met the educational requirements of pharmacy graduates to register as competent pharmacists and earned graduates a master's level degree. The National Pharmacy Internship Program was designed as a 12-month, full-time, blended-learning, competency-based program leading to a master's degree. Intern performance was assessed academically and by pharmacy preceptor (tutor) appraisals.

Preparedness of newly qualified doctors in Ireland for prescribing in clinical practice.

Aim: The aim of the study was to investigate the level of preparedness of newly qualified Irish-trained doctors for prescribing, and to investigate their attitudes towards prescribing and prescribing education, through a national survey.

Methods: A 29-item online survey was distributed to 686 newly qualified doctors 1 month prior to the completion of their first year of clinical practice (internship). Only graduates from Irish medical schools were included.

A descriptive survey study of violence management and priorities among psychiatric staff in mental health services, across seventeen european countries.

Background: In mental health services what is commonplace across international frontiers is that to prevent aggressive patients from harming themselves, other patients or staff, coercive measures and foremost, violence management strategies are required. There is no agreement, recommendations or direction from the EU on which measures of coercion should be practiced across EU countries, and there is no overall one best practice approach.

Methods: The project was conceived through an expert group, the European Violence in Psychiatry Research Group (EViPRG).

Syncopation affects free body-movement in musical groove.

One of the most immediate and overt ways in which people respond to music is by moving their bodies to the beat. However, the extent to which the rhythmic complexity of groove-specifically its syncopation-contributes to how people spontaneously move to music is largely unexplored. Here, we measured free movements in hand and torso while participants listened to drum-breaks with various degrees of syncopation.

Out of sight, out of mind: Do repeating students overlook online course components?

E-Learning is becoming an integral part of undergraduate medicine, with many curricula incorporating a number of online activities and resources, in addition to more traditional teaching methods. This study examines physical attendance, online activity, and examination outcomes in a first-year undergraduate medical program. All 358 students who completed the Alimentary System module within the first semester of the program were included, 30 of whom were repeating the year, and thus the module.

Peer interviewing in medical education research: experiences and perceptions of student interviewers and interviewees.

Background: Interviewing is one of the main methods used for data collection in qualitative research. This paper explores the use of semi-structured interviews that were conducted by students with other students in a research study looking at cultural diversity in an international medical school. Specifically this paper documents and gives 'voice' to the opinions and experiences of interviewees and interviewers (the peers and the communities) on the value of peer interviewing in the study and outlines (1) the preparation made to address some of the foreseen challenges, (2) the challenges still faced, and (3) the benefits of using peer interviews with respect to the research study, the individual and the institution.

Music, empathy and cultural understanding.

In the age of the Internet and with the dramatic proliferation of mobile listening technologies, music has unprecedented global distribution and embeddedness in people's lives. It is a source of intense experiences of both the most intimate and solitary, and public and collective, kinds - from an individual with their smartphone and headphones, to large-scale live events and global simulcasts; and it increasingly brings together a huge range of cultures and histories, through developments in world music, sampling, the re-issue of historical recordings, and the explosion of informal and home music-making that circulates via YouTube. For many people, involvement with music can be among the most powerful and potentially transforming experiences in their lives.

An Improved Process for the Preparation of an α,α-Difluorosulfonylisoxazoline Herbicide.

An efficient synthesis of a difluorosulfone-containing herbicide has been achieved by selective reductive silylation of a symmetrical bis(trifluoromethyl)-1,2,3-triazole. Subsequently, a fluoride-induced reaction led to a difluoromethyl anion equivalent, which was reacted with a sulfur electrophile leading ultimately to the key difluorosulfide moiety.

Determining the role of a national objective assessment of surgical skills in gynecological oncology: an e-Delphi methodology.

Objective: The aim of this study is to determine a national consensus on the role of an objective assessment of technical surgical skills in gynecological oncology (GO).

Methods: After approval was obtained from Society of Gynecologic Oncology of Canada, A panel of 20 GO leaders was assembled, representing all GO fellowship programs, and was asked to participate in an anonymous group and respond to an online 49-item questionnaire using a modified Delphi methodology.

Results: Ninety-five percent (n = 19) of those invited to participate did so.

Syncopation, body-movement and pleasure in groove music.

Moving to music is an essential human pleasure particularly related to musical groove. Structurally, music associated with groove is often characterised by rhythmic complexity in the form of syncopation, frequently observed in musical styles such as funk, hip-hop and electronic dance music. Structural complexity has been related to positive affect in music more broadly, but the function of syncopation in eliciting pleasure and body-movement in groove is unknown.

Current practice in the management of wound odour: an international survey.

Aim: To determine from a multi-disciplinary and international perspective current practice in the management of wound odour.

Background: Malodour is cited by patients and carers as one of the most distressing and socially isolating aspects of their wounds. The absence of a standardised approach to assessment and management underscores the need to collect baseline data to support guideline development.

Crossmodal interactions in the perception of expressivity in musical performance.

In musical performance, bodily gestures play an important role in communicating expressive intentions to audiences. Although previous studies have demonstrated that visual information can have an effect on the perceived expressivity of musical performances, the investigation of audiovisual interactions has been held back by the technical difficulties associated with the generation of controlled, mismatching stimuli.With the present study, we aimed to address this issue by utilizing a novel method in order to generate controlled, balanced stimuli that comprised both matching and mismatching bimodal combinations of different expressive intentions.

Toward a wiki guide for obstetrics and gynecology trainees in Ireland.

Background: The present paper describes the implementation of a novel, web-based, comprehensive national information hub for trainees in obstetrics and gynecology in Ireland. This was a unique development in the context of an entire medical specialty and was aligned with the communication strategy of the governing professional body. To date, trainee doctors working in Ireland undergo an incoherent and inconsistent new-staff induction and handover.

Medical students' knowledge, perceptions, and interest in complementary and alternative medicine.

Background: Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is a growing industry in the health care system. In Ireland, to date there has not been a study that evaluates the knowledge of, interest in, and attitude of Irish medical students toward CAM.

Objectives: This research can serve as a pilot study to inform Irish medical schools on the need to introduce CAM into the medical curriculum.

An international eDelphi study identifying the research and education priorities in wound management and tissue repair.

Aim: To incorporate an international and multidisciplinary consensus in the determination of the research and education priorities for wound healing and tissue repair.

Background: A compelling reason for the study is the lack of an agreed list of priorities for wound care research and education. Furthermore, there is a growth in the prevalence of chronic wounds, a growth in wound care products and marketing, and an increase in clinician attendance at conferences and education programmes.

Where do young adults want opportunistic chlamydia screening services to be located?

Background: This study measured the acceptability of urine-based chlamydia screening to young adults, where young adults wanted opportunistic chlamydia screening services to be located, and by whom they wanted to be offered screening.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey of 5685 university students and 400 young adult healthcares setting attendees (age: 18-29 years).

Results: Ninety-six percent of males and 93% of females said that they would find it acceptable to be offered chlamydia screening.

Beyond physical properties--application of Abraham descriptors and LFER analysis in agrochemical research.

This paper provides an overview of the Abraham approach to the determination of molecular descriptors for agrochemicals, and their potential in defining bioavailability related property-profiles and processes. The prediction of Abraham descriptors from structure has been demonstrated using agrochemical products and a simple guide to bioavailability defined in terms of the McGowan volume descriptor V (3), the hydrogen bond acidity descriptor A (1), and the hydrogen bond basicity descriptor, B (3). The use of measured physical property data to yield experimental descriptors is illustrated for 28 representative agrochemicals.