This study is designed to be conducted in K-12 math contexts in order to examine how personalizing math tasks to involve familiar and interesting careers and out of school interests can enable students to engage in effective math learning.
The course "Emergency Medicine: Diversity in Discipline, Professions, and Patient Populations" provides rising second year medical students with early exposure to the specialty of Emergency Medicine and fosters conversations regarding healthcare disparities in medicine and ways to address them. After an immersion in the specialty, students help to create content for and lead a week-long program for high school and/or college students. The purpose of the surveys is to assess the students' perceptions of there knowledge in areas of patient care, procedural skills, ultrasound, and healthcare disparities before and after the course.
The purpose of this study is to test a program to help people who have knee or hip osteoarthritis (OA) to increase their physical activity (PA).
This study is designed to understand how local health professionals address inland flooding from hurricanes and how the COVID-19 pandemic may be affecting these efforts. Researchers in this study will use this information to develop recommendations for improving future response efforts.
We will conduct an online survey of health professionals to learn whether they are able to prescribe buprenorphine (a medication for opioid use disorder) and things that may make it difficult or easy to prescribe bup to patients who would benefit from it.
Burnout within the health care setting is a known problem. The COVID-19 pandemic has lead to dramatic changes in the health care workplace and may lead to worsening burnout. This study aims to identify the most worrisome workplace stressors at UNC across departments so that changes can be made to address burnout.
The purpose of the study is to better understand acute respiratory infections in patients with Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD). This information will help to plan prevention and treatment studies in the future.
We hope to further study the effect of the Meet My Loved One (MMLO) document on health care delivery, communication between patients/families and staff/providers, as well as potential health care provider resiliency.
The purpose is to examine the psychological processes underlying reading (and language comprehension more generally) in healthy, literate adults, focusing particularly on how the representation of information in memory supports and constrains processing. This will contribute to a greater understanding of the basic processes involved in reading, which may lead to improvements in education and more effective uses of information technology.
Asking instructors how they teach students to use data in order to understand how the library can best support this effort.