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0000-0003-1371-8882
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University of South Australia
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Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-2000
DOI: 10.1046/J.1440-1754.2000.00468.X
Abstract: To measure bed sharing (BS) activity in healthy term infants. The sleep-wake behaviour and place of infant sleep were recorded for infants aged between 2 and 24 weeks. Infants were then identified as BS or non bed sharing (NBS) according to each of four different definitions of bed sharing. The mean proportion of infants who spent any time BS during a 24-h period was significantly greater (P < 0.05) between 2 and 12 weeks (40.9 +/- 1. 4%) than between 13 and 24 weeks (36.5 +/- 1.5%). A significantly greater proportion (P < 0.005) of infants bed shared for more than 2 h (25 +/- 1%) than for either 1-2 h (10.5 +/- 1.1%) or for less than 1 h/24 h (3.2 +/- 0.5%) during the whole study period. Each of the definitions of BS used in the study separated infants on the basis of the amount and frequency of BS activity. : Bed sharing activity was common and varied in this cohort. It was possible, using quantitative definitions, to identify those infants who routinely bed share.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2003
DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2923.2003.01716.X
Abstract: Prior to 1997, the University of Adelaide, Australia selected medical students according to matriculation marks alone. After extensive consultation with relevant stakeholders and examination of empirical evidence, the selection process is now based on a national written examination of reasoning and interaction skills, a structured oral assessment and a threshold matriculation score. This paper presents a series of 4 case studies examining the process related to the procedure and early interim outcomes, with the aim of adding to the evidence base for methods of medical student selection. Data were collected from a range of sources between 1996 and 2001, including the University's central administration system, the Faculty of Health Sciences, and purpose-designed oral assessment forms and self-report student questionnaires. The oral assessment process has shown itself to be characterised by a high level of interassessor reliability. Equity of access has been addressed and the number of schools represented in the student intake has increased from between 10 and 15 in the final years of the old selection process to over 30 statewide under the new process. There has been a corresponding increase in the proportion of students from rural backgrounds (from an original 4-12% to 20-22%). These investigations add to the evidence base for medical school selection in that they demonstrate that an oral assessment process can be reliable and lead to early positive results in relation to student outcomes and access.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-1998
Publisher: American Physiological Society
Date: 03-2004
Abstract: A cross-sectional evaluation of case-based teaching (CBT), a novel physiology learning environment for medical undergraduates, revealed that second, third, and fourth year students, together with their tutors, valued CBT as an experience that met its three major aims. The initiative not only integrated physiology with related basic sciences and clinical medicine but importantly linked students’ developing knowledge of theory to practice. CBT was also valued by students as their first introduction to clinical skills, with most tutors believing that it was the nonthreatening environment that helped students gain confidence for their first “real patient” encounters. The greatest support for CBT came from third year medical students, at the crossroads between their preclinical and clinical environments. Fourth year students, now encountering real patients, had moved on to developing their skills in the hospital environment.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2002
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3782(01)00243-2
Abstract: This investigation was carried out to determine the relationship between bed sharing and other places of infant sleep in the first six months of life, and to identify patterns of change in the place of infant sleep for infants who do and do not routinely bed share in the first six months of life. The sleep--wake behaviour and place of infant sleep were recorded, at weekly intervals, for bed sharing (n=25) and non-bed sharing (n=68) infants between 2 and 24 weeks after birth. Bed sharing infants spent a significantly increased proportion of their total sleep time per 24 h in other sleep environments which favoured close parental proximity and significantly less time in solitary sleep. Non-bed sharing infants spent a substantial proportion of their time sleeping alone from 2 weeks of age whereas the transition to sleeping alone occurred after 16 weeks for bed sharing infants. We have found that bed sharing acts as a proxy for increased close parental proximity during the first six months of life. This may be of significance in studies which examine the relationship between bed sharing and sudden infant death syndrome.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-2005
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