The attention/support to students in the socio-labor transition

In the present paper I intend to put forward some inquiries regarding the socio-labor guidance and transition of the young people in the co-ordinates of contemporary society. The outstanding paradox in which some young people are immersed when trying to get a first, second, third employment is also analyzed: "The job of looking for a job". This is a common experience shared by many young people when they try to find a place in the complex labor panorama. Looking for a job is a recurrent situation in contemporary society, given the high dose of precarious employment in which the productive world moves. Life-long jobs belong to the past and what is normal is that people strive to enter the competitive labor market repeatedly. Moreover, the paper offers the partial results of a larger research project that approaches tutorship, decision taking and expectations before the academic-labor future of the studentship in the last years of secondary school. Finally, I suggest some insights in the line that it is not longer feasible to work with old-fashioned guidance, trying to channel people's vocation and offering them information so that they get a job that provides them with the happiness of "doing what you like". Behind these ideas lay the normal biographies, the predictable itineraries. Labor market complexity makes the transition to working life very difficult. Once immersed in it, biographies and labor itineraries are constructed and reconstructed at the rhythm of the changing fortunes of times.

The attention/support to students in the socio-labor transition

In the present paper I intend to put forward some inquiries regarding the socio-labor guidance and transition of the young people in the co-ordinates of contemporary society. The outstanding paradox in which some young people are immersed when trying to get a first, second, third employment is also analyzed: "The job of looking for a job". This is a common experience shared by many young people when they try to find a place in the complex labor panorama. Looking for a job is a recurrent situation in contemporary society, given the high dose of precarious employment in which the productive world moves. Life-long jobs belong to the past and what is normal is that people strive to enter the competitive labor market repeatedly. Moreover, the paper offers the partial results of a larger research project that approaches tutorship, decision taking and expectations before the academic-labor future of the studentship in the last years of secondary school. Finally, I suggest some insights in the line that it is not longer feasible to work with old-fashioned guidance, trying to channel people's vocation and offering them information so that they get a job that provides them with the happiness of "doing what you like". Behind these ideas lay the normal biographies, the predictable itineraries. Labor market complexity makes the transition to working life very difficult. Once immersed in it, biographies and labor itineraries are constructed and reconstructed at the rhythm of the changing fortunes of times.

Methods and Tools for Objective Assessment of Psychomotor Skills in Laparoscopic Surgery

Training and assessment paradigms for laparoscopic surgical skills are evolving from traditional mentor–trainee tutorship towards structured, more objective and safer programs. Accreditation of surgeons requires reaching a consensus on metrics and tasks used to assess surgeons’ psychomotor skills. Ongoing development of tracking systems and software solutions has allowed for the expansion of novel training and assessment means in laparoscopy. The current challenge is to adapt and include these systems within training programs, and to exploit their possibilities for evaluation purposes. This paper describes the state of the art in research on measuring and assessing psychomotor laparoscopic skills. It gives an overview on tracking systems as well as on metrics and advanced statistical and machine learning techniques employed for evaluation purposes. The later ones have a potential to be used as an aid in deciding on the surgical competence level, which is an important aspect when accreditation of the surgeons in particular, and patient safety in general, are considered. The prospective of these methods and tools make them complementary means for surgical assessment of motor skills, especially in the early stages of training. Successful examples such as the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery should help drive a paradigm change to structured curricula based on objective parameters. These may improve the accreditation of new surgeons, as well as optimize their already overloaded training schedules.

Desarrollo de un sistema de gestión de tutorías a través de una aplicación móvil

RESUMEN Con la irrupción y el auge de las tecnologías móviles en estos últimos años, se ha hecho patente que los procesos de gestión tienden a ser controlados a través de estas tecnologías, permitiendo al usuario centralizar todos los servicios que le sea posible en un dispositivo de uso tan común como el teléfono móvil, así como acceder a ellos de forma rápida y cómoda. El sistema de tutorías de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid no es la excepción. Desde su creación, el Grupo de Innovación Educativa Tutorial Action (GIETA) [1] ha trabajado en la modernización del proceso de gestión que conlleva el sistema de tutorías, buscando las deficiencias del sistema tradicional que pudiesen resolverse utilizando la tecnología. Este Trabajo de Fin de Grado (TFG) ha tenido como objetivo apoyar la labor iniciada por el GIETA, desarrollando un sistema de gestión de tutorías mediante una aplicación móvil. Para lograr este objetivo, inicialmente se realizó un proceso de reflexión sobre, entre otras cuestiones, la razón de ser de la aplicación a desarrollar, las ventajas que aportaría al usuario final, aquellos riesgos que podían amenazar al proyecto, etc. Este proceso se englobó dentro de la herramienta Agile Inception Deck. Tras este proceso de reflexión, se estructuró el proyecto en fases o sprints de desarrollo, en las que se llevó a cabo la implementación del resultado final de este TFG, una aplicación móvil para el sistema operativo Android, que aporta funcionalidad que resuelve todos los requisitos asociados a las distintas historias de usuario definidas para el proyecto. ABSTRACT With the rise of mobile technologies in recent years, it has become clear that management processes tend to be controlled through these technologies, allowing users to centralize all services as possible, using a device as common as the mobile phone, and access them quickly and easily. The tutorial system at the Technical University of Madrid is not an exception. Since it’s creation, the Group of Educational Innovation Tutorial Action has worked on the modernization of the management process that involves the tutorial system, looking for weaknesses of the traditional system that could be solved using technology. This TFG has aimed to support the work initiated by the GIETA, developing a tutorship management system through a mobile application. To achieve this goal, initially a process of reflection was held about, inter alia, the rationale for the application to be developed, the advantages it would bring to the final user, the risks that could threaten the project, etc. This process is encompassed within the Agile Inception Deck tool. After this process of reflection, the project was divided into phases or sprints, in which took place the implementation of the outcome of the TFG, a mobile application for the Android operating system, which provides functionality that meets all the requirements associated with the different user stories defined for the project.

Letter from Charles Stearns to Edward Wigglesworth, 1781 November 8, and receipt signed by Stephen Sewall, 1781 November 16

In a letter to Wigglesworth, acting president of Harvard and Hollis Professor of Divinity, Stearns resigns his tutorship and writes that he will return an unnamed silver tankard and various books to the College. The folder also includes as a receipt for those objects upon their return, signed by Harvard Professor Stephen Sewall.

Intervenção social com crianças refugiadas: estratégias profissionais do Serviço Social com crianças refugiadas em Portugal

O objetivo principal é analisar a Intervenção social com crianças refugiadas em Portugal e as estratégias profissionais do Serviço Social como resposta às necessidades dessas crianças. Assim, pretendemos conhecer de que forma o assistente social, enquanto agente ativo na sociedade e capacitado de uma ação meditativa, produz respostas a esta problemática e conhecer também a realidade do nosso país relativamente à chegada de crianças refugiadas. A metodologia de investigação usada foi qualitativa tendo sido, realizado um questionário com oito perguntas fechadas e abertas, sendo divulgado on-line pelas redes sociais em grupos de serviço social. Foram recolhidas oito respostas, no entanto dois inquéritos não se enquadravam nos critérios de inclusão definidos pelo que foram excluídos. A partir dos dados obtidos foi possível perceber que existe uma estrutura preparada em Portugal para proceder ao acolhimento de crianças refugiadas sozinhas, que considera nos seus procedimentos o superior interesse da criança mas que padece ainda de algumas lacunas, nomeadamente ao nível da formação dos agentes de intervenção no terreno e do ensino da língua portuguesa. / The present study aimed to analyze the social intervention with refugee children in Portugal and the professional strategies of social workers in order to insure the needs of these children. Our main objective was to understand how the social worker, as an active agent in society and capable of a meditative action, produces answers to this problem and also know the reality of our country in respect to the arrival of refugee children. By the use of qualitative research methodology and the application of a questionnaire, composed with eight open and closed questions, published online in social networks of social service groups, we came up with eight responses. However two surveys did not fit the inclusion criteria defined and, therefore, were excluded. From the data obtained it was revealed that there is a structure prepared in Portugal to carry out the reception of refugee unattended children. It is a structure that considers the procedures regarding the best interests of the child, but it still suffers from some shortcomings, particularly in terms of training of intervention agents on the ground and in the tutorship of Portuguese language.