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Implication Statement Assessment of clinical teachers is a requirement by family medicine residency programs in Canada. This facilitates feedback to teachers and ensures the curriculum is delivered in an efficient and safe way. To protect resident confidentiality, preceptors often receive their teaching evaluations months to years later. Teachers have requested shorter feedback loops, greater numbers, and more frequent assessments to improve their skills. The preceptor field note (PFN) is a tool that allows learners to evaluate teachers during a single encounter providing more frequent and immediate feedback. This study documents teachers’ and residents’ initial impressions of the first iteration of the PFN.

As Lawrence wrote in Sea and Sardinia (1921) “How glad to be on a ship! What a golden hour for the heart of man! Ah if one could sail for ever, on a small quiet, lonely ship, from land to land and isle to isle, and saunter through the spaces of this lovely world, always through the spaces of this lovely world.” (SS 47.27 – 31). He wrote those words as a record of his response to the sea on a steamer travelling from Sicily to Sardinia in January 1921. They are a good example of how conflicted he was about his use of technology. This essay will outline Lawrence’s principal journeys by sea, a significant feature of and expense in his life, how they were necessary to enable him to undertake his “savage pilgrimage” and what Lawrence wrote on board ship, providing examples of the people he met on board ship, and how they and his experience of the sea as opposed to his experiences on land helped or featured in some of his best work.

Organizational intelligence (IO) has raised an interest from academia and the organizational environment. From the literature, studies of the IO are evidenced that reveal the benefits of its management in the organizational field. From the approach to a definition of the IO and the conception of a management model, the present work aims to develop a methodology to evaluate the IO, identifying precisely and in detail the dimensional elements that constitute it. The measurement of this variable in organizations is relevant for control and management processes, identification of improvements and closing gaps, among others, to maintain compliance with the current demanding business environment

In “Accumulated Mail” (1925) Lawrence wrote that “it’s no fun, writing unpopular books” (RDP 239). But he was keen to see his books sold. When Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) was widely pirated he sought to beat the pirates at their own game by arranging for the so-called “Paris popular edition” of Lady Chatterley’s Lover to be published there in 1929 with an initial print run of 3000 copies. It was quickly followed by second and third printings of the same quantity. Lawrence’s wish is confirmed by Frieda Lawrence in her “open letter” prefixed to the Odyssey Press edition of the book published in 1933, where she stated that Lawrence “wanted to reach the people he voiced and from whom he came.” This paper will explore the intended audience of the Florence first edition, bearing in mind the print run of only 1000 copies. It will then look at Lawrence’s view of the piracies, with some illustrations of those, and then consider whether the Paris popular edition marked a rethink by Lawrence of who the intended audience was or whether it was a natural progression from the Florence first edition. Finally, comparisons will be made with other editions of Lawrence’s books that were considered to be “popular” editions.

Ecocriticism is very wide in its scope and this paper will focus on the branch of ecocriticism that analyses imaginative texts and argues that such texts can provide a regenerative and revitalising message for the world. Ecocriticism did not take off as a coherent movement until the 1990s but critics found valuable messages in Sketches of Etruscan Places from the early years following its publication in 1932. This paper will examine the developing reception of the book from the outset with particular reference to its ecological value, not what Lawrence saw as its value purely as another of his travel books.

Abstract: Travel is often thought to be an adventure, an exploration, a way of knowing self and world, a break from the stresses of everyday life, a vacation. But there can be a dark side to travel, as in voyages that are part of invasion, conflict and enforced transport. Here, I wish to concentrate on conflict, domination, murder and genocide and do so, at various moments, by referring to the Norse sagas, including the encounter with the Skrælings in the New World and, more briefly, Columbus’ and the Spaniards’ violent treatment of the Natives in the New World and the German transport, torture and murder of Jews in the Shoah, or Holocaust.

This article offers a conceptual study of a scientific practice. Phylogenetic analysis is one of the main methods of evolutionary biology as it allows us to deduce the evolutionary relationships between different species or organisms. In current practice, these analyses are often performed with the help of molecular data, resulting in what are called molecular phylogenies. A major question is what is the best way to characterize this practice? We begin with a presentation of this method articulated in four stages: (1) identification; (2) alignment of homologous sequences (stemming from a common ancestor); (3) construction (4) interpretation of phylogenetic trees. We show that phylogenetic analyses are not experiments, and therefore do not belong to the “laboratory style”, as defined by Hacking. This practice does not correspond to a typical practice from the historical sciences, as described by Cleland. Although there is only a partial correspondence between phylogenetic analysis and these conceptualizations, we argue that each confrontation sheds light on distinct aspects of this practice. We also question the idea of a strong methodological separation between experimental sciences and historical sciences.

The article is about theory and practice in Shakespeare, but while he used the word “practice,” he never employed the term “theory.” After discussing practice a little, I shall examine how Shakespeare refers to poetry and poets, philosophy and philosophers with some brief connections with art, theatre, music, painting and mimesis. Shakespeare showed no inclination for criticism or theory in essays or non-fiction prose, but, as can be seen, for instance, in Hamlet’s instructions to the players, his work, poetry and plays, contain if not a theory of art, theatre and poetry at least some representations of and reflections on such matters by speakers, narrators and characters.

The study aimed at characterizing the management of 27 pig farms in the framework of a conservation program of the Creole pig of Martinique. Blood samples were collected on 67 pigs for serological analysis. A multivariate analysis discriminated six groups of farms: group 1 (n = 9) consisted of family farms with fewer than three boars and a higher age of replacement of reproducers than the other farms (6.2 vs 5.0 years, p < 0.01); group 2 (n = 5) consisted of small farms with two matings per sow per year and with more than two livestock species; group 3 (n = 5) consisted of farms with more than four boars and more than four sows, with batch management and a feeding diet mainly based on industrial concentrates; group 4 (n = 4) consisted of family farms with pigs reared outdoors and a feeding diet mainly based on local resources (50 to 100% of the total diet content); group 5 (n = 3) consisted of mixed farming systems with more than three boars and more than 10 sows; and group 6 consisted of a farm with a high number of females without batch management. The analysis of serological data showed that, regardless of the farming system (outdoor, semi outdoor, indoor), the sanitary status of pig farms in Martinique was good, with no identified contagious disease. The typology obtained and the results on the sanitary status of farms are encouraging signs to pursue the project aiming at the conservation of Creole pigs by exchange of healthy reproducers between farmers and the development of a niche market around heritage values.

Montaigne and Las Casas are important thinkers and writers, as are many others, including Shakespeare, as a poet, whose work is complex enough in its modernity that it would be hard to condemn him as a poet as Plato did Homer. Aristotle analyzed Greek tragedy to see how it worked in terms of a framework of anagnorisis and catharsis, that is, recognition and the purging of pity and terror. Shakespeare revisits and reshapes Homer in Troilus and Cressida and remakes Plutarch in Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra while playing on the classical epic and mythological themes in Venus and Adonis and Rape of Lucrece. Plato, a poet as well as a philosopher, and a great writer if one does not like those categories, may have feared the poet within himself. Although assuming with Plato that philosophy is more universal and just than poetry, Aristotle takes the analysis of poetry and drama seriously in Poetics, and also discusses ethics, aesthetics and style in Rhetoric. So, while I discuss Plato as a framework, I am not presuming that writing on the relations among the good, the true, the just and the beautiful stop with him. I am also making the assumption that Las Casas, Montaigne, Shakespeare and other poets and writers deserve to be taken seriously in the company of Plato. Las Casas and Montaigne respond to radically changing realities and shake the very basis of traditional ethics (especially in understanding of the “other”) and work in harmony with the greatest poets and writers of a new era often called modernity like Shakespeare, who is in the good company of Manrique, Villon, Ronsard, Du Bellay, Juan de la Cruz, Luis de León, Lope de Vega, Quevedo and Calderón. Long before, Dante and Petrarch were exploring in their poetry ethical and aesthetic imperatives and broke new ground doing so. Nor can Las Casas and Montaigne be separated from other great writers like Rabelais and Cervantes, who carry deep philosophical and ethical sensibility in their work while responding to reality by providing aesthetically – even sensuously – shaped images that always leave a margin for ambiguity because conflicts are part of an ambiguous reality.

Pancreatic cancer may by considered rare, yet in Canada it is the fourth leading cause of death by cancer in the elderly. This study was conducted in a large tertiary centre to determine the symptoms experienced by patients and the response by health professionals in providing supportive care. This paper reports the results of a retrospective review of health records from patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer (n=99). Results indicate that pain, nausea, vomiting, and anorexia were frequently reported.There was a lack of consistency in the documentation of nursing care and little evidence of an organised, planned approach for care delivery. The role of the interdisciplinary health care team and its members in managing this devastating disease and its impact on patient quality of life was difficult to ascertain. The development of an integrated approach to the care of patients with pancreatic cancer is presented.

Pancreatic cancer may by considered rare, yet in Canada it is the fourth leading cause of death by cancer in the elderly. This study was conducted in a large tertiary centre to determine the symptoms experienced by patients and the response by health professionals in providing supportive care. This paper reports the results of a retrospective review of health records from patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer (n=99). Results indicate that pain, nausea, vomiting, and anorexia were frequently reported. There was a lack of consistency in the documentation of nursing care and little evidence of an organised, planned approach for care delivery. The role of the interdisciplinary health care team and its members in managing this devastating disease and its impact on patient quality of life was difficult to ascertain. The development of an integrated approach to the care of patients with pancreatic cancer is presented.