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Serving with Pharmacy Students: Reflections from a Medical Mission Team Leader and Preceptor
Pharmacy, 2016 The medical mission field is an innovative setting for training and evaluating health care professional students. The motivating factor of serving indigent populations as a means of a humanitarian, or oftentimes a spiritual act, makes medical missions an
Dana A. Brown
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A novel method of non-clinical dispatch is associated with a higher rate of critical Helicopter Emergency Medical Service intervention [PDF]
, 2018 Background - Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) are a scarce resource that can provide advanced emergency medical care to unwell or injured patients. Accurate tasking of HEMS is required to incidents where advanced pre-hospital clinical care is
de Coverley, Richard +5 more
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.Deployable medical devices typically need external stimuli to trigger deployment. However, external stimuli are difficult to supply within tissues. Here, we describe a strategy to deploy small‐scale structures into soft tissues after insertion without the need for any stimulus. We demonstrate deployment within a tissue phantom.
Yeh‐Chia Tseng +13 more
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Brain Gains: a literature review of medical missions to low and middle-income countries
BMC Health Services Research, 2012 Background Healthcare professionals’ participation in short-term medical missions to low and middle income countries (LMIC) to provide healthcare has become common over the past 50 years yet little is known about the quantity and quality of these ...
Martiniuk Alexandra LC +3 more
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How do Astronaut Candidate Profiles differ from Airline Pilot Profile [PDF]
, 2011 Sixteen years after the second Europe-wide astronaut selection campaign, the European Space Agency started the third campaign by putting out a call for new astronauts in 2008.
Maschke, Peter +2 more
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Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.A nanostructured, naturally flame‐retardant, and non‐toxic inorganic composite is introduced, which is laterally associated with silica nanoparticles to induce the restacking of the LDH lamella structure, thereby serving as an efficient thermal insulator.
Gayani Pathiraja +7 more
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Christian Journal for Global Health, 2015 Medical missionaries have always been a part of global health. One of their greatest potential assets as global health workers was that they carried with them a spiritual understanding of life. Although they didn’t always realize it, the people they came
Raymond Downing
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Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.Microfluidic engineering enables the fabrication of chitosan‐coated, melatonin‐loaded nanoemulsions with controlled release and enhanced physicochemical stability for space pharmaceutics. Interfacial biopolymer coating modulates droplet behavior under accelerated thermal stress and simulated microgravity.
Modupe Adebowale +3 more
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Characterizing the global context for cross-cultural healthcare work by regions of the world
Christian Journal for Global Health, 2015 Healthcare missionaries (n=393) from 18 English-speaking countries, serving in 67 countries, were surveyed. With an average of 11 years of field experience and working primarily in the local language, participants in this study were able to report on ...
Mark Strand +2 more
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Recommendation for a Medical System Concept of Operations for Gateway Missions [PDF]
NASAs exploration missions to cis-lunar space will establish a permanent gateway to future transport missions to Mars. These missions mandate a significant paradigm change for mission planning, spacecraft design, human systems integration, and in-flight ...
Fleming, Nancy +3 more
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