Online document collaboration is reading, conference and writing all at once, and it is not certain what sort of man that will maketh.
While all supervisors take the academic part of supervising seriously--discussing books to read, conferences to attend, experiments to plan, and so on--many tend to disregard the social aspects of the task.
Those of us who are old enough to have read conference proceedings books from the 1960s and 1970s will nostalgically recall the transcripts of discussions that accompanied the articles; usually these made the best reading in the book.
For the ECG reading conference, the ACTIVE format demonstrated improvements in learning point clarity (4.84 vs. 4.00, p < 0.01) and relevance (4.94 vs. 4.5, p < 0.01).
Study carrels, tutorial rooms, reading rooms, conference rooms...I found them in my local libraries.
Although it is not possible to determine from reading the conference abstract whether there was selective outcome reporting, primary outcomes are provided to analysis for us.
In addition to searching, mechanisms include: following citations; following up entries made in registers of clinical trials; exhaustive browsing of the contents of the major journals for the area; and reading relevant conference proceedings (which might not be indexed and thus cannot be found by searching the document databases).
Wild says she is encouraged to learn from papers she reads and conferences she attends, that more girls are being diagnosed.
Similar to Ph.D. scientists, genetic counselors must keep on top of scientific and technological advances by attending scientific conferences, reading the literature, and taking courses.
You can read our conference report here.
