Tag: research
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Publishing essays as scholarly work
A few days ago the OpenPhysio journal published a collection of speculative fiction essays, called Physiopunk, written by first-year physiotherapy students at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. The project was an initiative of Filip Maric and colleagues in the department, and is an attempt to help students think creatively about the kinds of futures we may…
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Physiotherapy clinicians’ perceptions of AI in clinical practice – SAAHE conference
In 2019 I conducted a survey of international physiotherapy clinicians, asking what they thought of the introduction of AI and machine learning into clinical practice. I didn’t do much data analysis in 2020 (because, Covid) but have now completed an initial round of thematic analysis on the responses. In this presentation at the SAAHE 2021…
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‘Structured serendipity’ in collaborative writing
In this video I’m talking to Ben Gordon, a physiotherapist in Boston with an interest in the role of machine learning in clinical practice. Ben and I have been working on the very early stages of writing an article together, and quickly became frustrated with the limitations of working collaboratively in Google Docs. We started…
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OMW, Fermat’s Library looks amazing
Fermat’s Library is a service that allows members to upload papers and annotate them to provide some of the context around research articles, through annotation and discussion. The website creators talk about the importance of understanding the backstory to a lot of academic research. For example, in the image below you can see a summary of Richard Feynman’s…
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On the poor performance of AI models during the pandemic
Heaven, W.D. (2021). Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped. MIT Technology Review. In the end, many hundreds of predictive tools were developed. None of them made a real difference, and some were potentially harmful. That’s the damning conclusion of multiple studies published in the last few months.…
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Call for papers – Towards a new normal in physiotherapy education
By responding to this global disruption, we are placed in a situation where we are having to rethink our approaches to physiotherapy education. All over the world physiotherapy educators are engaged in what is possibly the most extensive programme of pedagogical change in our professional history. We see colleagues responding with creativity, empathy and flexibility,…
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Resource: The Scholarly Kitchen podcast.
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is a “nonprofit organization formed to promote and advance communication among all sectors of the scholarly publication community through networking, information dissemination, and facilitation of new developments in the field.” I’m mainly familiar with SSP because I follow their Scholarly Kitchen blog series and only recently came across the…
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Article: Which are the tools available for scholars?
In this study, we explored the availability and characteristics of the assisting tools for the peer-reviewing process. The aim was to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the tools available at this time, and to hint at new trends for further developments…. Considering these categories and their defining traits, a curated list of 220 software…
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Research project exploring clinicians’ perspectives of the introduction of ML into clinical practice
I recently received ethics clearance to begin an explorative study looking at how physiotherapists think about the introduction of machine learning into clinical practice. The study will use an international survey and a series of interviews to gather data on clinicians’ perspectives on questions like the following: What aspects of clinical practice are vulnerable to…
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Summary: Ten simple rules for structuring papers
Good scientific writing is essential to career development and to the progress of science. A well-structured manuscript allows readers and reviewers to get excited about the subject matter, to understand and verify the paper’s contributions, and to integrate these contributions into a broader context. However, many scientists struggle with producing high-quality manuscripts and are typically…
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Read: Academic research
Many people think that “ivory tower” intellectuals make little difference in the world. But some of the highest impact people in history have been researchers, and if you have good personal fit with academic research, we think it can be one of the highest-impact paths…In this article, we’ll cover why we think a career in…
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Translating AI into the clinical setting at UC Irvine – AI Med
Ultimately, many of these shortcomings exist because few if any physicians are actively engaged in developing the next generation of technology, AI or otherwise. It is interesting to note the vast majority of medical startup companies are founded with limited if any physician involvement or oversight.Without experts that deeply understand both the medical and technical…
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Academic expert says Google and Facebook’s AI researchers aren’t doing science
in AIGoogle and Facebook, and other corporate research labs are focused on AI for profit, not on advancing science..such laboratories aren’t advancing the field of cognitive science anymore than Ford is advancing the field of physics at the edge. After all, no matter how impressive neural networks are, they operate on principles that date back decades.…
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AMA Passes First Policy Recommendations on Augmented Intelligence
Combining AI methods and systems with an irreplaceable human clinician can advance the delivery of care in a way that outperforms what either can do alone. But we must forthrightly address challenges in the design, evaluation and implementation as this technology is increasingly integrated into physicians’ delivery of care to patients. Source: AMA Passes First…
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You are your Metadata: Identification and Obfuscation of Social Media Users using Metadata Information
We spend a lot of time focusing on the content of messaging systems as a means of identifying people but it looks like the metadata encoded alongside the content may be just as important when it comes to de-anonymising the data. This wasn’t always a problem because it’s hard to analyse multivariate relationships in large…
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SAAHE podcast 01 – Patient-centredness, with Elize Archer
I recently launched a new SAAHE initiative where we have conversations with people doing interesting work in health professions education. In this conversation, I talk to Elize Archer, a recent PhD graduate from the University of Stellenbosch. Elize conducted her research on patient-centred approaches to clinical practice among medical students. In our conversation, we discuss…
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IPE course project update
This post is cross-posted from the International Ethics Project site. My 4th year students have recently completed the first writing task in the IEP course pilot project. I thought I’d post a quick update on the process using screenshots to illustrate how the course is being run. We’re using a free version of WordPress which…
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Psychology’s top 20 principles for enhancing teaching and learning
Every once in a while an article is published that you know is Important and that you should take Note of, and in this post I’m going to summarise a paper that I think fits into that category. It’s a recent publication in Mind, Brain and Education that attempts to summarise and explain the Top 20 principles of…
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The CONSORT guidelines for systematic reviews of RCTs
When I was at the WCPT conference last year I came across the CONSORT guidelines for the publication of systematic reviews of RCTS, which I’d never heard of before. I made a note to look it up and finally got around to doing it. I thought would be quite helpful in planning and carrying out…
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Assessing teams instead of individuals
Patient outcomes are almost always influenced by how well the team works together, yet all of the disciplines conduct assessments of individual students. Yes, we might ask students who they would refer to, or who else is important in the management of the patient, but do we ever actually watch a student talk to a…