This study gathered world-wide information about web-based clinical teaching resources, identified gaps in these resources, and analyzed preceptor clinical education needs as first steps in creating a series of web-based clinical education modules. In addition to an environmental scan of web-based resources, a needs assessment survey was created, distributed, and analyzed. Participants in the survey, representing ten healthcare professions throughout British Columbia, Canada, identified the content that would be most relevant to them and the optimal length of web-based modules. The study identified 15 web-based clinical education topics common across four English-speaking countries and linked them to 31 province-wide learning needs surveyed across ten categories of allied health professionals. The results indicated a strong interest among preceptors in using a web-based resource and provided initial groundwork about the topical content and structural formats for the next phase of the project which will be to develop and evaluate a series of web-based clinical teaching modules.
This case study describes the process of selecting the most appropriate state-wide hospital system to manage COVID-19 cases in a setting of low community transmission of COVID-19 infection. A rapid review of the literature was conducted of the advantages and disadvantages of having designated COVID hospitals. This led to three different options being presented for discussion. Following consultation, the option chosen was for all hospital facilities to remain prepared to care for COVID-19 patients where they present rather than having specified designated hospitals because this was considered the most practical option currently.
feature of Action Comics #1-propelled Goodman to contract with the newly formed comic book packager, Funnies, Inc. 19 Funnies, Inc., and sales agent Frank Torpey, made a deal for Goodman to publish strips for a new comic book anthology: Marvel Comics #1, which featured the first appearances of two characters who would become associated with the Marvel brand: the android Human Torch and Namor, the Sub-Mariner. 20 The issue sold 80,000 copies on its first printing in September 1939, and a massive 800,000 copies on its second printing, which was better than the sale of an average DC Comics title for the time. 21 From then on a cohesive "Marvel" universe began to coalesce. A key development was the release of Marvel Mystery Comics #7-Marvel Comics' new title instituted by Goodman with its second issue-which hinted that the characters Namor and the Human Torch existed within the same fictional universe. 22 In 1940, Marvel Mystery Comics #8 and #9 featured as its headline character Namor, who was shown attacking renowned monuments from the Empire State Building to the Bronx Zoo, thus establishing the cohesion of Marvel Comics as a fictional universe with a grounding in the "real world." 23 Further successful productions from Marvel Comics soon followed, such as Captain America. Created by Jack Kirby, born Jacob Kurtzberg, and Joe Simon, Captain America followed the lead of earlier Marvel Comics heroes existing in the "real world" by combatting the real-life villains of World War II; on December 20, 1940 Captain America #1-featuring Captain America punching Adolf Hitler-hit the newsstands and sold nearly a million copies, exceeding everyone's expectations. 24 It was also during this period, before Captain America #1 went to press, when Stan Lee, born
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