Innovating in Teaching Collaborative Practice with a Large Student Cohort at Université de Montréal

Université de Montréal implemented an interprofessional education (IPE) curriculum on collaborative practice in a large cohort of students (>1,100) from 10 health sciences and psychosocial sciences training programs. It is made up of three one-credit undergraduate courses (CSS1900, CSS2900, CSS3900) spanning the first 3 years of training. The course content and activities aim for development of the six competency domains identified by the Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative. This paper describes the IPE curriculum and highlights the features contributing to its success and originality. Among main success key factors were: administrative cooperation among participating faculties, educators eager to develop innovative approaches, extensive use of clinical situations conducive to knowledge and skill application, strong logistic support, close cooperation with health care delivery organizations, and partnership between clinicians and patients. A distinguishing feature of this IPE curriculum is the concept of partnership in care between the patient and caregivers. Patients’ representatives were involved in course planning, and patients were trained to become patients-as-trainers (PT) and cofacilitate interprofessional discussion workshops. They give feed- back to students regarding integration and application of the patient partnership concept from a patient’s point of view. Lire l'article/Read the article : http://openurl.ingenta.com/content?genre=article&issn=0090-7421&volume=42&issue=4&spage=97E&epage=106E

La mise en scène du savoir-faire musical au cinéma

Ce mémoire de recherche-création vise d’abord à inventorier et à analyser les processus et procédés narratifs, rhétoriques et formels grâce auxquels trois films mettent en scène le savoir-faire musical, et particulièrement la situation d’apprentissage de la musique et la relation maître-élève. Ces trois films sont : All That Jazz, de Bob Fosse (1979), Bird, de Clint Eastwood (1988) et Tous les matins du monde, d’Alain Corneau (1991). Au terme de cet inventaire et de cette analyse, nous aurons repéré une dominante thématique : dans ces films, et peut-être au cinéma en général, la musique et l’enseignement de la musique sont représentés sous des traits socio-psychologiques particuliers : d’une part, la possession de l’autre, la soumission, le sacrifice et la perpétuelle insatisfaction. Mais aussi les multiples gratifications dont l’éducation et la formation du corps et de l’esprit sont gages. Il conviendra alors de vérifier une hypothèse : Est-ce que certains modes d’expression cinématographiques — ayant à voir avec certaines pratiques de cadrage, certaines figures du champ- contrechamp, etc. —, et certains modes de narration filmiques n’expliqueraient pas cette capacité du cinéma à mettre en scène les menaces affectives et sociales qui pèsent sur le maître de musique et l’apprenti musicien ? Ce sont ces mêmes processus et procédés, ce même thème et cette même hypothèse, qui seront explorés dans un scénario de long métrage, en faisant cette fois-ci confiance à la capacité de problématisation de l’écriture poétique.

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Impact of Quality on Ethics and Social Responsibility in Marketing, in Industries in Kerala in the present Indian Scenario

The paper ‘Impact of Quality on Ethics and Social Responsibility in Marketing in Industries in Kerala in the present Indian scenario’ highlights the observations, based on a descriptive research carried out in five leading industries in Kerala, in the private and public sector. Ethics and social responsibilities, practiced in these industries, are reflected in the results of the survey conducted on specific queries like awareness of products/services provided by them, total understanding of the requirements of the customer, open discussion on technical matters, accountability of employees to the society and social needs, consumer ethics vis a vis business ethics etc. Team working goes a long way, in building relations, which in turn, results in a progressive and effective marketing strategy. This assumes paramount importance, considering the severe competition we are facing in the light of liberalization, privatization and globalization, which encompasses the globe. The prediction of India becoming a lead nation, along with USA, China and Japan, in this decade, can get fructified only if we follow a very high standards of ethics and social responsibility, in all domains including marketing. Organizations like TRW.Rane, Sundaram Fasteners, TVS Motors, in Chennai are a few among others in India, who have achieved the highest distinction in quality viz Deming Prize, and these demonstrate their commitment to quality, society and humanity at large. Cost effectiveness, without jeopardizing quality has become the need of the hour and MRTP has become history. This trait is being brought out through the survey and the results speak for themselves. Unethical practices like switch and bait, not only brings shame to the organization, and country but also results in the company getting wiped out from the market. Adherence to standards like ISO 14000 helps to maintain the minimum level of social responsibility and environmental friendliness. Like quality audit, safety audit etc, social audit is being insisted in all progressive countries to ensure that the organization comply with the minimum statutory requirements. The paper also touches upon Corporate Social Responsibility practiced in the industries and this becomes crystal clear through their commitment to improve the community. Green Marketing lays a lot of importance on the three Rs of environmentalism viz Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. The objective of any business is to achieve optimal profit and this is possible only by reducing the cost as well as waste. In this context, management tools like brainstorming, suggestion schemes, benchmarking etc becomes helpful. These characteristics are brought out through the analysis of survey results. The conclusions drawn throw a lot of information on the desirable practices with respect to Ethics and Social Responsibility in Marketing