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3292 Duke Integrated Physician-Scientist Development
- Stephanie A. Freel, Michael Gunn, Andrew Alspaugh, Gowthami Arepally, Gerard Blobe, Jillian Hurst, Maria Price-Rapoza, Ashley Grantham, Laura J. Fish, Rasheed Gbadagesin, Sallie Permar
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- Journal of Clinical and Translational Science / Volume 3 / Issue s1 / March 2019
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- 26 March 2019, pp. 67-68
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OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: 1.Identify barriers to pursuing research for physician trainees 2.Develop a sustainable pipeline of physician-scientists at Duke 3.Coordinate physician-scientist development programs across the School of Medicine under one central Office 4.Provide infrastructure and resources for all physician-scientists 5.Increase the number of MDs and MD/PhDs who pursue, succeed, and are retained in research METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: To establish a baseline understanding of the needs and concerns of physician-scientist trainees at Duke, we conducted focus groups using a standardized interview guide and thematic analysis. Findings from these focus groups were used to develop a framework for support, leading to the creation of the Office of Physician-Scientist Development (OPSD) housed centrally within the Duke School of Medicine. The OPSD integrates programs and resources for multiple populations including medical students, residents, fellows, junior faculty, and faculty mentors. Pipeline programs will also be developed to enhance research engagement in targeted student populations prior to medical school. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: A total of 45 students and faculty participated in the focus groups and structured interviews (1st year medical student, n=11; 4th year medical students, n=11; residents/fellows, n=13; junior faculty, n=11). While participants raised a number of specific issues, one key message emerged: non-PhD MDs in basic research felt they lacked opportunities for directed training. Moreover, they felt the need to teach themselves many critical skills through trial and error. This has led to perceptions that they cannot compete effectively with PhDs and MD-PhD scientists for research funding and positions. Consensus recommendations included: better guidance in choosing mentors, labs, and projects; central resource for information relevant to physician scientists; training specifically tailored to physician scientists conducting laboratory-based research; improved infrastructure and well-defined training pathways; and assistance with grant preparation. To-date, over 90 students, residents, and fellows have been identified who identify as laboratory-based physician scientists. Additional efforts are underway to identify and characterize the broader range of physician-scientist students and trainees at Duke. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: Our planning study revealed specific steps forward toward developing a robust community of physician-scientists at Duke. As a first step, the Dean of the School of Medicine has appointed an Associate Dean of Physician-Scientist Development to oversee a new Office of Physician-Scientist Development (OPSD) being launched in December of 2018. The OPSD will offer four primary programs. 1) A concierge mentoring program will assist new trainees in identifying research areas of interest and mentors. Trainees will receive periodic contact to provide additional support as needed and promote success. 2) A physician-scientist training program is being created to provide training specific to laboratory research skills as well as career and professional development training to complement existing clinical and translational research programs. 3) Integrated training pathways will provide additional mentored research training for those pursuing research careers. Pathways will capitalize on existing resources from R38 programs, while pursuing additional R38 and R25 support. 4) An MD-Scientist funding program has been developed to provide additional research funding and protected time for students pursuing a second research year. Through the support and programming offered by the OPSD, we anticipate decreased perceptions of barriers to pursuing a physician-scientist career and increased satisfaction with training opportunities. Over time, we expect such support to increase the number of MD students pursuing research as a career and the number of residents, fellows, and MD junior faculty remaining in research careers.
Suriname Literary Geography: The Changing Same
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- By Richard Price, Duane A. and Virginia S. Dittman Professor of Anthropology, American Studies, and History at the College of William and Mary, Sally Price, Duane A. and Virginia S. Dittman Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at the College of William and Mary
- Edited by Maria Cristina Fumagalli, Peter Hulme, Owen Robinson, Lesley Wylie
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- Surveying the American Tropics
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- Liverpool University Press
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- 25 July 2017
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- 31 December 2013, pp 285-312
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In a recent call for papers for a conference on Léon-Gontran Damas (hosted by the Postcolonial Research Group of the University of Antwerp in December 2008), the organisers asked: ‘Why has Guyanese literature (in Dutch, French, and English) remained thus far overlooked, particularly within Caribbean scholarship and more generally speaking in postcolonial literary studies?’ If indeed literature from and about the Guianas has been overlooked, it is not because of its scarceness. Restricting ourselves for a moment to Suriname, the geographic centre of the Guianas, we would note that in 2002 the indefatigable Michiel van Kempen defended a nearly 1,500-page dissertation on Surinamese literature up to 1975, and a year later published an updated 1,400-page version, in two volumes, covering the whole history. Including more than 100 pages of bibliography, it is both a monumental accomplishment and an engaging read, ranging from oral literature, including dance, theatre, and song (Carib, Arawak, Trio, Ndyuka, Saamaka, Creole, Hindustani, and Javanese), to all forms of written literature since the end of the sixteenth century. The whole of the thick second volume is devoted to literature written since 1957 and, like the earlier volume, includes numerous word portraits of authors. Getting this book out in English would, in one fell swoop, bring Surinamese literature into critical dialogue with other Caribbean (and world) literatures and go a long way toward responding to the challenge posed by the Antwerp postcolonialists. It's not, then, the scarcity of literature, but rather mainstream scholars’ non-mastery of the relevant languages as well as scholarly fashions, that has left ‘Guyanese literature … overlooked’.
Before beginning, a few words about how we situate ourselves in these geographic/literary spaces. Our own nostalgia for Suriname is always contrasted to our home base in seaside Martinique, where, as Derek Walcott writes, one has that ‘sense of elation you get in the morning in the Caribbean … the width of the ocean’. The clarity of the green-blue water, through which you can see the rocks on the bottom of the sea, the warm, sensual trade winds, the luscious air, the hills behind hills behind hills on three sides, the black snow drifting down and depositing a fine layer of ash from cane fields burning on the other side of the island over the mountains—all this is where we start from, where we think from, where we write from.
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- By Paul S. Appelbaum, Elizabeth K. Dollard, Peter Ash, Madelon V. Baranoski, Alec Buchanan, Philip J. Candilis, J. Richard Ciccone, Eric Elbogen, Graham D. Glancy, Robert P. Granacher, Ezra E. H. Griffith, Jeffrey S. Janofsky, Sally Johnson, Joshua Jones, Alyson Kuroski-Mazzei, Li-Wen Grace Lee, Gregory B. Leong, Barbara McDermott, Richard Martinez, Michael A. Norko, John O’Grady, Debra A. Pinals, Marilyn Price, Patricia Ryan Recupero, Phillip J. Resnick, Robert L. Sadoff, Charles Scott, J. Arturo Silva, Sherif Soliman, Aleksandra Stankovic, Robert Weinstock, Kenneth J. Weiss, Robert M. Wettstein, Cheryl Wills, Howard Zonana
- Edited by Alec Buchanan, Yale University, Connecticut, Michael A. Norko, Yale University, Connecticut
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- The Psychiatric Report
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- 07 September 2011
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- 07 July 2011, pp ix-xii
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Chapter 5 - Museums, Ethnicity and Nation-Building: Reflections from the French Caribbean
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- By Richard, Sally Price
- Edited by Gert Oostindie
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- Ethnicity in the Caribbean
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- Amsterdam University Press
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- 02 February 2021
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- 24 October 2005, pp 81-105
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Just off the north-south road that skirts the Atlantic coast of Martinique, ‘a mini-village made up of rural huts from the 19505 … pennits the new generation to discover the scenes their ancestors knew, the way of life of their parents and grandparents…. Four years in the making, this open-air museum is a gem of tradition. On Sunday afternoons … members of the folkloric troupe Madinina install themselves there to recreate a living portrait of that bygone era’ (Staszewski, 1993:48-50). A few kilometers to the south, in the cove of Anse Figuier, another privately-run museum, the island's first ‘éco musée', also targets the 19505 - ‘the traditional society we have forgotten in our rush to modernity. . fa Martinique pro[onde’ (E. H-H., 1992:44-5).
Nostalgia for the ‘ancestral’ way of life is big in 1990s Martinique. Celebration of the ‘patrimoine’ permeates the local press, radio, and T.V., animated by artists, musicians, dancers, tale-tellers, writers, theater groups, and cultural associations. Commercialized folklore is available at every village fete and large hotel, and it floods the airwaves. One might well ask, why this surge of interest in the everyday life of only a generation ago?
The early 1960s marked a watershed in Martinique and its sister department of Guadeloupe. France began an aggressive program of development and integration that transformed these island neo-colonies into modern consumer societies with the highest standards of living in the region. Infrastructure boomed: roads, electricity, telephones, and piped water arrived in the most remote communities, and airports and hotels were dramatically expanded. Social programs (a panoply of welfare benefits, pensions, unemployment insurance) pumped cash into family budgets. The standard size of houses tripled even as family size began to plummet. Agriculture was encouraged to atrophy as service industries (and the civil service) burgeoned. The number of cars per family quickly came to rival that in the US. Supermarkets, as well as megastores for building products, appliances, and other consumer goods, sprang up across the landscape; in the context of both France and the wider world, Guadeloupe and Martinique became the largest per capita consumers of champagne anywhere. The media were modernized and contributed to making the French language a part of everyone's daily life.
Self-injury attendances in the accident and emergency department: Clinical database study
- Judith Horrocks, Sally Price, Allan House, David Owens
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- The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 183 / Issue 1 / July 2003
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- 02 January 2018, pp. 34-39
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- July 2003
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Background
Self-injury is a neglected area of self-harm research and we know little about its epidemiology, hospital care and outcome.
AimsTo provide epidemiological data on self-injury and compare hospital management of self-injury with that for self-poisoning.
MethodData were collected on all self-harm attendances to the general hospitals in Leeds over an 18-month period.
ResultsPeople attending hospital for self-injury or self-poisoning do not form mutually exclusive groups. There were higher proportions of self-injury episodes compared with self-poisoning, where a history of self-harm or contact with mental health services had been recorded. Fewer psychosocial assessments were carried out after episodes of self-injury compared with self-poisoning but, when they were, follow-up was recommended more often.
ConclusionsThe clinical importance of self-injury is not mirrored by the level of psychosocial assessment and after-care provided.