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The "Research Audit" Model: A Prototype for Data-Driven Discovery of Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research
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Burnette, Margaret H. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2015
The increasing interdisciplinarity of scientific research creates both challenges and opportunities for librarians. The liaison model may be inadequate for supporting campus research that represents multiple disciplines and geographically dispersed departments. The identification of units, researchers, and projects is a first step in planning and…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Biomedicine, Medical Research, Scientific Research
"I'm Not Trying to Be Cured, so There's Not Much He Can Do for Me": Hospice Patients' Constructions of Hospice's Holistic Care Approach in a Biomedical Culture
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Nebel Pederson, Sarah; Emmers-Sommer, Tara M. – Death Studies, 2012
The hospice philosophy was founded on a mission to provide comprehensive and holistic services to individuals at the end of life. Hospice interdisciplinary teams work together to offer therapies such as spiritual services, comfort care, and massage therapy to meet patients' physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual needs. Although the…
Descriptors: Hospices (Terminal Care), Interdisciplinary Approach, Patients, Biomedicine
Effects of Interdisciplinary Education on Technology-Driven Application Design
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Tafa, Z.; Rakocevic, G.; Mihailovic, D.; Milutinovic, V. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2011
This paper describes the structure and the underlying rationale of a new course dedicated to capability maturity model integration (CMMI)-directed design of wireless sensor networks (WSNs)-based biomedical applications that stresses: 1) engineering-, medico-engineering-, and informatics-related issues; 2) design for general- and special-purpose…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Biomedicine, Health Services
Developing Student Collaborations across Disciplines, Distances, and Institutions
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Knisley, Jeff; Behravesh, Esfandiar – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2010
Because quantitative biology requires skills and concepts from a disparate collection of different disciplines, the scientists of the near future will increasingly need to rely on collaborations to produce results. Correspondingly, students in disciplines impacted by quantitative biology will need to be taught how to create and engage in such…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Biology, Interdisciplinary Approach, Curriculum Development
Results Sections of Medical Research Articles: Analysis of Rhetorical Categories for Pedagogical Purposes.
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Williams, Ian A. – English for Specific Purposes, 1999
Shows that Brett's model is an inadequate basic model of the rhetorical categories of the results sections of medical research articles for interdisciplinary genre analysis. With further refinements to the modifications presented in this report, the model could successfully be applied to the English-for-Specific-Purposes classroom for analysis of…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language), Interdisciplinary Approach
Teaching Biopsycho-Ethical Medicine in a Family Practice Clerkship.
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Cassidy, Robert C.; And Others – Journal of Medical Education, 1983
A disciplined understanding of human values is seen as an essential complement to the biomedical and psychosocial components of clinical training in medical education. A biopsycho-ethical model for medical education is presented. By combining interdisciplinary seminars with clinical experience, both the rigor and relevance of value analysis are…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Clinical Experience, Course Descriptions, Course Evaluation