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Out-of-Hours
Published in James Sherifi, General Practice Under the NHS, 2023
Cooperatives had other unexpected benefits. Since doctors from different practices had to work together, cross-fertilisation of ideas could lead to practice improvements. The week became more structured, with clearly defined periods of work and leisure. Spouses and children were liberated. A doctor at ‘work,’ whether during day or night, was out of the house, allowing family life to proceed peacefully without them. Equally, when the doctor was at home, they were likely to be rested and, therefore, easier to live with. Morale improved greatly.
Supporting GP Trainees Who Graduated Outside the UK
Published in Ramesh Mehay, The Essential Handbook for GP Training and Education, 2021
Maggie Eisner, Jon Chadwick, Arun Davangere, Amar Rughani
Trainees from other cultures are a very valuable resource for a training scheme (seeChapter 20: Understanding and Teaching about Diversity). All participants will benefit from educational sessions in which different cultural perspectives are presented and discussed. Examples of cross-fertilisation sessions in which trainees from other cultures are invaluable: ethical issuesprofessionalismhealth beliefs in different cultureshealth-seeking behaviour in different culturesdifferent ways of organising health servicesfamilies and how they work.
Indigenous Biosecurity
Published in Kezia Barker, Robert A. Francis, Routledge Handbook of Biosecurity and Invasive Species, 2021
Simon J. Lambert, Melanie Mark-Shadbolt
In addition to UNDRIP, some guidance has been produced in the extensive multilateral organisations that have developed since the end of World War II, notably on biological diversity (UN Convention on Biological Diversity, 2018), with Indigenous Knowledges (IK) now accepted as having a key role in future sustainable development (Rahman, 2016; Segger and Phillips, 2015). Lambert and Scott (2019), for example, detail how IK can contribute to disaster risk reduction discourse, and environmental degradation has undermined Indigenous strengths (including cultural well-being) in coping with hazards and underlined biosecurity as a feature of ecosystem maintenance. Such cross-fertilisation of ideas through the synthesis of IK and mainstream science is necessary for ethical and efficacious biosecurity.
Editorial to the Monographic Issue: The development of hearing and language during the first years of life
Published in Hearing, Balance and Communication, 2022
Judit Gervain, Patrizia Trevisi
Cross-fertilization between the two research areas is thus timely and has the potential to break new ground in basic research as well as to advance applied, clinical and translational research with a highly positive impact on society. Recent technological advances in both auditory prosthetics and neuroscience have paved the way for this interdisciplinary and synergistic approach. Cochlear implanting, for instance, has provided an unprecedented window into the plasticity of the auditory system and the brain, while various imaging techniques have now made it possible to track neural dynamics in response to sound with previously unequalled temporal and spatial precision both at the auditory periphery and in the central nervous system. Results obtained with these novel techniques all converge to suggest that the development of hearing as well as the development of language have critical periods early in life. Research into this unique window of neural plasticity is thus extremely important.
Rehabilitation interventions after traumatic brain injury: a scoping review
Published in Disability and Rehabilitation, 2022
Unni Sveen, Rikke Guldager, Helene Lundgaard Soberg, Tone Alm Andreassen, Ingrid Egerod, Ingrid Poulsen
The main contributor of TBI rehabilitation articles was the US (39.8%). Other Anglo-Saxon countries (e.g., Australia, UK and Canada) were highly represented along with other countries publishing in English-language journals, (Table 2). The relative lack of English-language articles from countries such as France (1.2%) and Germany (1.0%) indicates that parallel research discussions could be occurring in other languages; Germany has pioneered rehabilitation strategies. It is assumed there are under-utilized opportunities for cross-fertilization. The relatively high number of relevant research articles from the Scandinavian countries of Sweden, Norway and Denmark (12.9%) suggests two things: frequent publication in English-language journals and a high level of focus on TBI research. The proportional per capita contribution of Scandinavia vs the US is 3 to 1.
Genetic Contextualism and the Value of a Structured Process
Published in The American Journal of Bioethics, 2019
I note first that this article represents a wonderful example of “ELSI” research. The ethical, legal, and social issues (ELSI) in human genetics have been a significant focus for the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) since its inception, and this has been traditionally the largest source of grant funding for bioethics research and scholarship (Parker et al. 2018). It does not appear that this article was the direct result of National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding; however, the authors are prominent scholars in this field and come from centers with strong histories of ELSI funding. More specifically, the article illustrates the cross-fertilization that comes from multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary research. The authors bring tools familiar to rhetoricians to the biomedical domain, suggesting that this approach will bring more structure and clarity to debates in our field. Whether they are successful remains to be seen, but the effort alone is stimulating and refreshing.