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Clinical Stroke Validation Methods in Under-Resourced Ethiopian Hospital Settings (2023)
Journal Article
(2023). Clinical Stroke Validation Methods in Under-Resourced Ethiopian Hospital Settings. https://doi.org/10.21252/jyth-qe43

In hospitals with active stroke services, diagnosis, and treatment of stroke patients includes computed tomography (CT), perfusion imaging and angiography. CT scan is traditionally used to assess patients with suspected intracranial haemorrhage. Yet,... Read More about Clinical Stroke Validation Methods in Under-Resourced Ethiopian Hospital Settings.

Accuracy of Self-Assessment Compared to Objective Performance in Written Anatomy Examinations (2023)
Journal Article
(2023). Accuracy of Self-Assessment Compared to Objective Performance in Written Anatomy Examinations. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/skv0-mb90

Aim: To evaluate the ability of medical students to accurately predict their performance in written anatomy tests. Methods: In part 1, 189 Year 1 to 4 students answered 100 best-of-four multiple-choice anatomy questions under examination conditions.... Read More about Accuracy of Self-Assessment Compared to Objective Performance in Written Anatomy Examinations.

Characterizing the Successful Student in Virtual Gross Anatomy (2023)
Journal Article
(2023). Characterizing the Successful Student in Virtual Gross Anatomy. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/35zy-y847

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic abruptly shifted the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine’s (LECOM) pre-clinical curriculum to a virtual format, including that of the anatomical sciences. As anatomy is so fundamental to clinical... Read More about Characterizing the Successful Student in Virtual Gross Anatomy.

Perception, emotional experiences, and cultural attachments of Ethiopian medical students during human cadaveric dissection (2023)
Journal Article
(2023). Perception, emotional experiences, and cultural attachments of Ethiopian medical students during human cadaveric dissection. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/e4xk-t467

Human cadaveric dissection has been used in Anatomy teaching for centuries and remains a time-honored and preferred method of instruction. However, the initial exposure to cadaver dissection sometimes evokes emotional reactions in medical students. P... Read More about Perception, emotional experiences, and cultural attachments of Ethiopian medical students during human cadaveric dissection.

Near Peer Learning between Medical and Physiotherapy Students: A Pilot Study of Anatomy Knowledge, Attitudes, Communication and Teamwork (2023)
Journal Article
(2023). Near Peer Learning between Medical and Physiotherapy Students: A Pilot Study of Anatomy Knowledge, Attitudes, Communication and Teamwork. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/rnnf-yy60

Introduction: There is ample evidence of the benefits of learning across professions in the context of gross anatomy with respect to communication, teamwork and attitudes of health care students towards each other, and a smaller body of evidence that... Read More about Near Peer Learning between Medical and Physiotherapy Students: A Pilot Study of Anatomy Knowledge, Attitudes, Communication and Teamwork.

Can the Haptico-Visual Observation and Drawing Method Enhance the Learning of Anatomy? (2023)
Journal Article
(2023). Can the Haptico-Visual Observation and Drawing Method Enhance the Learning of Anatomy?. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/yjjy-sd29

Background Sound anatomical knowledge is essential for medical education and practice. Students and teachers alike believe that visual and spatial reasoning skills are key to learning anatomy. Many innovative teaching strategies promote deep underst... Read More about Can the Haptico-Visual Observation and Drawing Method Enhance the Learning of Anatomy?.

Design and transition of human anatomy practicals into a “remote-ready” environment (2023)
Journal Article
(2023). Design and transition of human anatomy practicals into a “remote-ready” environment. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/th55-8h44

During the past 3 years online teaching became a need and a priority in medical education at various levels. World-wide anatomy educators have faced a similar situation. Many course directors needed to design and run anatomy practicals in an online e... Read More about Design and transition of human anatomy practicals into a “remote-ready” environment.

Teaching Histology to Dental Students Using Drawing as a Learning Tool (2023)
Journal Article
(2023). Teaching Histology to Dental Students Using Drawing as a Learning Tool. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/r6gh-zm58

Through the centuries, from Claudius Galen, Andreas Vesalius, Leonardo Da Vinci to Gray’s Anatomy illustrations of Henry Vandyke Carter, drawing, as a form of art, has been a tool for learning and teaching anatomical sciences. We have conducted an ob... Read More about Teaching Histology to Dental Students Using Drawing as a Learning Tool.

Demonstrating the Value of Medical Education in the Covid-19 Era (2023)
Journal Article
(2023). Demonstrating the Value of Medical Education in the Covid-19 Era. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/v135-3g34

On March 11, 2020, WHO declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. To protect and maintain the health and safety of its community, medical education institutions were required to restrict personal contact between medical educators and learners while c... Read More about Demonstrating the Value of Medical Education in the Covid-19 Era.

A benchtop brain injury model using resected donor tissue from patients with Chiari malformation. (2023)
Journal Article
Tickle, J., Sen, J., Adams, C., Furness, D., Price, R., Kandula, V., …Chari, D. (2023). A benchtop brain injury model using resected donor tissue from patients with Chiari malformation. Neural Regeneration Research, 1057 - 1061. https://doi.org/10.4103/1673-5374.355761

The use of live animal models for testing new therapies for brain and spinal cord repair is a controversial area. Live animal models have associated ethical issues and scientific concerns regarding the predictability of human responses. Alternative m... Read More about A benchtop brain injury model using resected donor tissue from patients with Chiari malformation..

Single-cell profiling of mosquito spermatogenesis defines the onset of meiotic silencing and pre-meiotic overexpression of the X chromosome. (2023)
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Page, N., Taxiarchi, C., Tonge, D., Kuburic, J., Chesters, E., Kriezis, A., …Galizi, R. (2023). Single-cell profiling of mosquito spermatogenesis defines the onset of meiotic silencing and pre-meiotic overexpression of the X chromosome. [PREPRINT]

Understanding development and genetic regulation in the Anopheles gambiae germline is essential to engineer effective genetic control strategies targeting this malaria mosquito vector. These include targeting the germline to induce sterility or using... Read More about Single-cell profiling of mosquito spermatogenesis defines the onset of meiotic silencing and pre-meiotic overexpression of the X chromosome..

Will Someone not Think of the Children?’ The Protectionist State and Regulating the ‘Harms’ of the Online World for Young People (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Higson-Bliss, L. (2023, April). Will Someone not Think of the Children?’ The Protectionist State and Regulating the ‘Harms’ of the Online World for Young People. Paper presented at British and Irish Law Education and Technology Association, University of Amsterdam

Since 2018, following a green paper exploring the regulation of the online world (HM Government, 2018), the Conservative Government in the United Kingdom have continued the rhetoric that they wish to become one of the safest places in the world to go... Read More about Will Someone not Think of the Children?’ The Protectionist State and Regulating the ‘Harms’ of the Online World for Young People.

Epac as a tractable therapeutic target (2023)
Journal Article
Slika, H., Mansour, H., Nasser, S., Shaito, A., Kobeissy, F., N. Orekhov, A., …Eid, A. (2023). Epac as a tractable therapeutic target. European Journal of Pharmacology, 945, Article 175645. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejphar.2023.175645

In 1957, cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) was identified as the first secondary messenger, and the first signaling cascade discovered was the cAMP-protein kinase A (PKA) pathway. Since then, cAMP has received increasing attention given its multi... Read More about Epac as a tractable therapeutic target.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: empirical estimates of stellar ages from lithium equivalent widths (eagles) (2023)
Journal Article
Jeffries, R. D., Jackson, R. J., Wright, N. J., Weaver, G., Gilmore, G., Randich, S., …Zaggia, S. (2023). The Gaia-ESO Survey: empirical estimates of stellar ages from lithium equivalent widths (eagles). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 523(1), 802-824. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1293

We present an empirical model of age-dependent photospheric lithium depletion, calibrated using a large homogeneously analysed sample of 6200 stars in 52 open clusters, with ages from 2 to 6000 Myr and -0.3 < [Fe/H] < 0.2, observed in the Gaia-ESO sp... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: empirical estimates of stellar ages from lithium equivalent widths (eagles).

Thinking differently: evidence on what patients want and need in an explanation about osteoarthritis (2023)
Journal Article
Jinks, C., Campbell, L., Croft, P., Dziedzic, K., Grossman, H., Maddison, J., …Cottrell, L. (2023). Thinking differently: evidence on what patients want and need in an explanation about osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 31(5), 711-712. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2023.02.064

Purpose: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a major cause of pain and disability worldwide. Despite this and the existence of evidence-based guidelines, many patients and professionals lack clarity about the nature of OA and effective treatment strategies. Healt... Read More about Thinking differently: evidence on what patients want and need in an explanation about osteoarthritis.

Post COVID-19 trends in simulation use within diagnostic radiography and radiation therapy education (2023)
Journal Article
Partner, A., England, A., Young, R., Shiner, N., & Bridge, P. (2023). Post COVID-19 trends in simulation use within diagnostic radiography and radiation therapy education. Radiography, 29(4), 684-689. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radi.2023.04.018

Purpose: Simulation is used within medical radiation science training. Recent global events and simulation resource uptake has led to significant changes. The aim of this study was to capture post COVID-19 trends and activity of simulation-based edu... Read More about Post COVID-19 trends in simulation use within diagnostic radiography and radiation therapy education.