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This briefing considers the roles of apprenticeship delivery features in the mental health and well-being (MHW) of apprentices in higher education, arguing that there is a need for empirical research in this area. This stems from the very little (if not no) attention that the area has received. Some of the recommended empirical investigations include whether or not the influence of the apprenticeship delivery features on the MHW of apprentices varies because of the differences in industries – for example, construction, environmental sciences and healthcare. If this is the case, to what extent is it applicable? There is also a need to understand the extent to which the personal characteristics of apprentices impact on their MHW. This study also shows that the MHW of apprentices is likely to improve if learning and teaching strategies in universities are better connected (or go hand-in-hand) with work-based learning or activities. However, this is subject to investigation. The proposed research will contribute to the limited knowledge relating to the mental health of future professionals (including apprentices) that are currently studying in higher-education institutions.

The UK-based non-governmental organisation Turquoise Mountain was asked by the Myanmar government to lead the regeneration of the Tourist Burma Building – one of the most important historic landmark buildings at the centre point of Yangon’s Downtown, next to the Sule Pagoda. Turquoise Mountain first looked around the building in May 2016, straight after completing their first project in Myanmar at 491–501 Merchant Street, and works started on-site in November 2017, with the first event held within the finished space in the summer of 2019.

Local and global design processes are equally time-phased and consider multiple goals, such as architecture, engineering and manufacturing. This paper presents a global modelling concept for hyperbolic grid shells with parametric methodologies to demonstrate alternatives to conventional structural designs composed of iterative workflows. The modelling concept provides a smooth and interactive design process for the optimisation and analysis of hyperbolic shapes. Moreover, modern timber architecture is increasingly moving towards double-curved forms, for which current timber joining methods do not offer fully adequate solutions. The design and manufacturing of multi-axial joints in spatial structures, such as space frameworks or grid shells, can greatly influence the appearance when more than two members are joined in and out of plane. In this paper, innovative grouted round timber connections have been adapted for the design of hyperbolic structures with the advantage of no requirement for concave modification of the cross-sections.

Educational and training aspects of human resources management have been shown to span beyond organizational boundaries, indicating the importance of managing human resources initiatives across the developed countries. Although scholars and practitioners focus a great deal of attention toward economic and educational management , less attention is paid to training aspects. This is unfortunate, because training management not only plays an important role in enabling other management initiatives, but social injustices in one echelon of a developing countries can lead to significant losses for institutions across the countries. Training issues have been especially problematic in developing nations, where missing training practices continue to negatively affect teaching and learning partners. This research aims to compare between education and training approaches in developed and developing nations. Using a questionnaire data collected from difference of educations and institutions, in developed and developing countries. This research aims to uncovers aspects of education and training approaches in terms of not only the focal firm, but also in first-tier suppliers and customers. Each of these aspects are then associated to a potential performance outcomes. The findings not only provide a baseline for future research, but also help practitioners understand where to focus their attention to enhance their institutions.

Selorejo Village, Blitar Regency is a village where some of the residents produce Opak Gambir snacks which are still managed using traditional methods. This causes the management in the production to be less professional and less organized. This program aims to improve education and training, especially in the fields of entrepreneurship, finance, and marketing, so that the management of this home industry will be more organized and professional. The method of implementing the program is by providing education, training, and coaching for producers. The results of the program show that the producer is very well educated about the principles of entrepreneurship. Opak Gambir producers are also able to make financial plans both for administration and also the selling price of their products. The producer is also able to determine marketing plans, which include starting from the process of determining prices, determining distribution locations, and how the promotion process is carried out. Through this community service, it is hoped that the producer will be able to manage their business in a professional manner, apart from being a source of income, is also a destination for the Opak Gambir industry.

The Saudi Society of Clinical Pharmacy (SSCP) is a scientific and professional society in the field of clinical pharmacy that operates under the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties governance. The SSCP believes that there is a need to define and describe many aspects related to the clinical pharmacy profession in Saudi Arabia. Moreover, there is an increasing demand for promoting the concept of clinical pharmacy and developing a consensus regarding the scope of practice and clinical pharmacist's required postgraduate education and training in Saudi Arabia. This paper is intended to present several position statements by the SSCP that define the concept of clinical pharmacy, describe the required education and training, and highlight clinical pharmacists' scope of practice in Saudi Arabia. This paper calls for further investigations that examine the impact of clinical pharmacists on individual and population health levels.

The use of intraoperative robotics and imaging for spine surgery has been shown to be safe, efficacious, and beneficial to patients, offering accurate placement of instrumentation, decreased operative time and blood loss, and improved postoperative outcomes. Despite these proven benefits, it has yet to be uniformly adopted. One of the major barriers for universal adoption of intraoperative robotics is the learning curve for this complex technology, in conjunction with a lack of formalized training. These same obstacles for universal adoption were faced in the introduction of surgical technology in other disciplines, and the use of this technology has become the standard of care in some of those specialties. Part of the success and widespread implementation of prior novel technology was the introduction of formalized training systems, which are currently lacking in advanced spine surgical technology. Therefore, the future success of intraoperative robotics and imaging for spine surgery depends on the creation of a formalized training system. We detail the best techniques for surgical pedagogy, as well as propose a comprehensive curriculum.

Infrastructure engineering is a complex multidisciplinary practice that underpins human health – the physical, mental and social, as well as economic well-being, of people. Infrastructure is unique because its defined value is related to the services and capabilities that it enables, not by any intrinsic value nor in the financial investments that make it possible. The complexities in infrastructure planning, as in other contexts, encourage simplification and standardisation of different types/systems during planning and design. Yet the authors argue that many of the assumptions that have led to the present are now less valid, and many of the challenges – whether pandemics, technological change or the evolving natural context – now create significant economic and societal risks. These influences tend to create a significant and growing demand for the most broadly informed infrastructure engineers, who not only can work in component system specialisations but can also thrive even within a larger system with all its complexities and interdependencies. The competent practice of infrastructure engineering is delivering the technical excellence of sector-specific infrastructure systems that are developed in sympathy with its dynamic operating context. The necessary professional competencies are not currently supported as they should be by a comprehensive and more complete educational foundation.

Social scientists, teacher leaders, and academics, both Japanese and non-Japanese, have attempted to examine the phenomenon of unlicensed foreigners in the Japanese classroom environment. In an attempt to open a discourse on the intentions and subsequent failures of the JET programme, and to identify specific perceptions of Japanese teachers in relation to JET, a historical analysis of the JET programme coupled with a Likert Scale survey was utilized. In this ordinal scale survey, the opinions of both experienced Japanese teachers and inexperienced Japanese teachers on the challenges of working in conjunction with untrained foreign instructors during their career, were used to gauge teacher's attitudes and opinions. Results would suggest that teacher's with longer time in the field of education have stronger opinions towards untrained foreign educators in the classroom, while less experienced teachers are more apt to working with untrained foreign educators without expressing dissatisfaction. https://doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.20.7.7

Educating traffic knowledge and safe behaviours to children is an effective strategy for improving their traffic safety. However, due to the physical and cognitive limitations of children, implemen...

General education teachers encounter challenges with behavior management that are compounded by limited experience and training on implementing targeted behavioral supports. One research-based method to support teacher implementation of behavioral interventions is on-site coaching. Unfortunately, coaching can be a time- and resource-intensive approach to professional development. The purpose of this article is to provide intervention team leaders with a step-by-step process for providing feasible coaching support to teacher implementers of Tier 2 behavioral supports.

El presente artículo pretende realizar una reflexión sobre el recorrido por los fundamentos teóricos imprescindibles para la comprensión del enfoque metodológico de Aprendizaje Basado en Equipos (ABE), así como sus elementos esenciales, sus aspectos prácticos de implementación y una aproximación a antecedentes de investigaciones sobre la metodología. Se presenta además la narrativa de una experiencia particular en el marco de la formación del profesorado de química en el Instituto de Profesores Artigas (IPA) del Consejo de Formación en Educación (CFE), Montevideo, Uruguay y una pequeña investigación relacionada con ello. Finalmente se realiza una síntesis de discusión y conclusiones, en la que se destacan las bondades para la formación docente, así como la necesidad de profundizar en investigaciones que den mayor sustento a su aplicación.

Radiologic and imaging nurses (RINs) continue to be exposed to radiation at the workplace. However, many studies identified that most health care systems do not have policies on radiation safety training for RINs; the less educated they are on radiation safety, the more fear they have with radiation and the less comfortable they are with assisting patients while receiving medical imaging procedures. This policy perspective will identify gaps in radiation protection training, and development of education training, and suggest strategies for compliance with annual radiation training. We recommend that radiology or nursing departments should develop and enforce a policy mandating annual radiation safety training for RINs and that The Joint Commission should evaluate the institutional adherence to that policy.

Our survey of 88 endoscopy technicians and nurses to determine their experience, training, and knowledge of infection control found that few personnel (

Background: Medical educational training activity has been going on and is gaining momentum and upgrading with time. One of the important means by which this is done in our country is the basic medical education course and presently its revised versions. Objectives: We have to assess how far we have come close to our target or goal, what are the things we have actually achieved by it and what we have to achieve as yet. Materials and Methods: We tried to do this assessment not by conducting an objective test among faculty or a performance assessment by students, but by a study conducted among the faculty by means of a questionnaire which uses faculty perceptions as recorded voluntarily as a means to our study. A few of the faculty chose to personally discuss issues addressed in the questionnaire. Results and Conclusions: Majority of the faculty had a positive opinion, and definitely agreed that it is very effective, but insufficient to achieve the high aims it purports to achieve, because of insufficient training time, not being able to choose deeper reinforcement of what is interesting them, and devoting time towards only topics that appear to be of equal relevance to all, and not actually helping them along in what is of specific importance their speciality. Most of them thought that sufficient reinforcement of medical education training is an imperative issue. Keywords: Medical education training assessment, Reinforcement of medical teachers training, Dovetailing of training to suite the teacher, Faculty perception.

Today’s civil engineering profession was born in the industrial revolution with the vision of ‘harnessing the forces of nature for the benefit of mankind’. However, the industry’s alarming environmental impact means that civil engineers must urgently change their impact on the world. Viewing the dangers of climate change through the lens of behavioural science, this paper identifies the four ‘levers’ that civil engineers must pull to put the profession on a sustainable and morally justifiable path. Three of the levers focus on behaviours, outlining measures that individuals, companies and institutions can take to realign decision making to the needs of sustaining life on the planet. Only one lever relates to new technological solutions. These levers offer a pragmatic to-do list of actions, to unlock systemic change, and thereby accelerate the profession’s transition to a net-zero future.

The study aims to analyze the education and training system and apparatus development at the Regional Financial and Asset Management Agency of Musi Rawas District with the study indicators, namely aspects of education and training of apparatus, career development, or apparatus and placement of human resources using SWOT analysis. Data collection was conducted through interviews, observation, and documentation study methods. The results showed that the Regional Financial and Asset Management Agency of Musi Rawas District is in the prime and steady condition in developing human resources for apparatus. It is really possible to continue increasing growth and achieving maximum progress even though it poses a large enough threat. The strategic recommendation given is the Progressive Strategy, which means that the organization is stable. The human resource development strategy can be carried out progressively towards improving human resources by increasing activities that encourage the development of human resources intensively and continuously. To implement human resource development at the Regional Financial and Asset Management Agency of Musi Rawas District to run well and as needed, it is recommended to determine the priority scale of the education and training. It must be based on the results of the Training Needs Analysis. Then in the implementation of Movements and Promotions carried out based on Career Patterns, Workload Analysis, and Job Analysis.

The management of human resources at the Secretariat of the Research and Development and Training Agency (a public organization that is identical to religious values) experiences problems because the importance of employee performance, employee engagement, and organizational behaviour are still below 75. This study aims to determine whether employee engagement and organizational citizenship behaviour positively and significantly impact employee performance. This research finds that employee engagement has a positive and significant impact on employee performance, while organizational citizenship behaviour has a negative and insignificant impact on employee performance. This research supports previous research, which states that employee engagement positively and significantly impacts employee performance. However, this research refutes previous research applied to private organizations, which states that organizational citizenship behaviour has a significant positive impact on employee performance.

Publications of research conducted during short-term research education training programs serve as an outcome measure for students’ successes and a program’s value. We compared the impact of cancer publications from research conducted during a short-term cancer research education training program, to publications by program participants in the years following completion of the training program and earning an academic or professional degree. Bibliometrics and altmetrics from NIH, ResearchGate, Google Scholar and Scopus® that measure publication impact were collected on cancer publications by student interns in the CaRES (Cancer Research Experiences for Students) R25 program from 1999 to 2017; and on cancer publications in subsequent years by program alumni (students who completed CaRES). Publication characteristics and impact measures were described and compared. Of 558 publications, 206 (37%) were related to CaRES internship projects and 352 (63%) related to any cancer research in which program alumni engaged following their internships. CaRES project publications were cited more frequently and held a higher research interest score than later cancer publications by CaRES alumni but appeared in journals having lower impact factors (p

Human capital is one of the country’s most significant economic metrics. Today, of course, the advancement of technology, the production of inventions, is a result of the human brain. It, in effect, naturally happens in countries with highly evolved human capital. This paper summarizes the arguments and counterarguments within the scientific discussion on the issue priorities of human capital development in Azerbaijan during the industrial revolution. The main purpose of the research is to identify and encourage the improvements in Industry 4.0 in Azerbaijan that would be essential for human capital, as well as to suggest a sustainable workplace outlook for current manufacturing businesses during the modern industrial revolution. The relevance of this scientific problem decision is that given the formation of new mechanisms of development on the eve of the 4th Industrial Revolution, these factors also have an impact on the development of human capital. Because the emergence of new professions during the 4th industrial revolution makes it necessary to form human capital in accordance with these professions. Investigation of the topic in the paper is carried out in the following logical sequence: introducton, literature review, research methodology, empirical findings and conclusions. We used some indicators expressed in the 2008-2017 Global Competitiveness Report of the Azerbaijan World Economic Forum to assess the findings. The object of research is the chosen country is Azerbaijan, because namely here, the development of human capital is one of the main goals of public policy. The paper presents the results of an empirical analysis regression, which showed that regression outcomes show that independent variables can explain 63.2 percent of the heterogeneity in higher education and training in Azerbaijan. Calculations of parameters indicate that any change of 1 percent in the independent variable will increase by 0.341 percent. The results of the study suggest that progressive reforms in Azerbaijan’s higher education and training have had a major effect. To meet the requirements of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, spending on human capital must be increased. The results of the research can be useful for in the direction of formation of competitive human capital and creation of modern innovation space in the coming years.

Invited Talks 7 - Biomedical Engineering 11- Biophysics in Biology and Medicine 12- Education Training and Professional Development 16- Information Systems and Databases in Healthcare and Medicine 17- Medical Physics 18- Modelling and Simulation 21- New Technologies in Medicine and Safety 24- Physical Factors 26- Qaulity Assurance and Quality Control 28- Radiation Protection and Safety 30- Radiation Therapy 67

In 2008, the GEC ESTRO Gyn network launched the first multiinstitutional, observational, and prospective international study on MRI-guided brachytherapy in locally advanced cervical cancer patients (EMBRACE-I). EMBRACE-I was followed by EMBRACE-II from 2016 and ongoing. Among the aims of the EMBRACE studies are to benchmark morbidity outcomes and develop dose-volume effects and predictive models for morbidity. The EMBRACE studies collect both physician (CTCAE v.3) and patient (EORTC QLQ-C30/CX24) reported outcomes, including baseline information, in a regular follow-up schedule. The EMBRACE studies feature high numbers of patients (EMBRACE-I N = 1416, EMBRACE-II N = 1500 expected) enrolled from many institutions worldwide (EMBRACE-I n = 23, EMBRACE-II n = 45). This large-scale multiinstitutional approach offers a unique opportunity to investigate and develop new strategies for improving the quality of assessment and reporting of morbidity. This report presents an overview of the challenges and pitfalls regarding the assessment and reporting of morbidity encountered during more than a decade of development and research activities within the EMBRACE consortium. This includes the recognition and evaluation of inconsistencies in the morbidity assessment, and consequently, the provision of assistance and training in the scoring procedure to reduce systematic assessment bias. In parallel, a variety of methodological approaches were tested to comprehensively summarize morbidity outcomes, and a novel approach was developed to refine dose-effect models and risk factor analyses. The purpose of this report is to present an overview of these findings, describe the learning process, and the strategies that have consequently been implemented regarding educational activities, training, and dissemination.

Background Minor ailments services are structured pharmacy-based primary health care services that manage minor conditions. Limited training, education and assessment exists to promote the delivery of minor ailments services by pharmacy staff and it is unclear if the existing training and education processes meet professional requirements. Objective To explore the views and experiences of health professional stakeholders such as community pharmacists, intern pharmacists, medicines counter assistants and general medical practitioners with regards to minor ailments services education, training and assessment practices and preferences. Setting This study explored the views and experiences of health professional stakeholders in Australia. Method Semi-structured interviews were conducted, audio recorded, transcribed verbatim and then coded thematically using QSR Nvivo12. Main outcome measure Stakeholders' views and experiences regarding minor ailments services education, training and assessment practices and preferences. Results Twenty-eight interviews were conducted (community pharmacists n = 12; medicines counter assistants n = 4; intern pharmacists n = 9; general medical practitioners n = 3). Thematic analysis generated three themes: (1) pharmacy staff who require minor ailment service training; (2) acceptability and willingness to complete additional training; (3) learning preferences and approaches. Stakeholders reported considerations for the diverse roles in service delivery and fit for purpose tailored training. Conclusion Detailed practice guidelines may facilitate clarity of an individual staff member's role. Education and training in both clinical and non-clinical aspects of the service may be beneficial and may improve minor ailments service uptake and outcomes.