This simple intervention could be easily incorporated into residency training and potentially extended to the faculty to encourage increased scanning.
The work of the UK government's Foresight team is full of helpful reports and useful tools to encourage 'horizon scanning', and the National School of Government offers training to help people to anticipate and prepare for the unexpected.
But here we see a rare case of the opposite problem: the Arabic language, spread over more than 20 countries, has too many armies and navies.Addendum: Even more than usual, I encourage readers to scan the comments below.
Incorporating this method of feedback may help encourage residents to scan more frequently.
I also think Facebook might not be doing enough to encourage users to scan their Timelines for embarrassing posts they might want to remove.
This method encourages environmental scanning (Fox-Wolfgramm, 2010), and the challenges of making decisions under conditions of complexity and conflict (Ferrell and Ferrell, 2012).
QR codes were located throughout the event and attendees were encouraged to scan codes and were rewarded with achievements for every scanned QR code and every journey they completed.
The Hazard Perception Test (HPT) was introduced as an element of the UK driving licence theory test in 2003 as a measure to encourage appropriate visual scanning of the road or highway and to develop the ability to recognise at the earliest opportunity that a potentially dangerous driving situation might arise.
The three year career planning program developed by Hall et al. [ 24] encouraged participants to scan their work environment, assess themselves in relation to their values, knowledge, strengths and limitations, and develop clear goals.
They developed a nine-lesson curriculum to teach kids mindful meditations, such as 'body scanning', to encourage them to keep their attention focused in the present, and to help them deal with stress.
