Operational And Implementation Evaluation Of A Short-Term Medical Service Program In Rural Guatemala, Mitchell M. Michalak, Shamecka Douglas, Oscar Gonzalez, Giovanna Sanguinetti, Ashley Sweat

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

Holistic Review In Health Professions Education Program Admissions: A Concept Analysis, Andrea N. Bowens

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

Purpose: Health professions education programs often use holistic reviews to promote a more diverse student body, leading to a more diverse healthcare workforce. Although many organizations and educational institutions advocate for holistic reviews of applicants, there are inconsistencies in the literature as to what this practice entails. Thus, the purpose of this concept analysis was to identify the defining attributes of holistic reviews and provide an operational definition. Methods: Walker and Avant’s description of a concept analysis served as a guide for this review. This systematic process included an analysis of current literature, legal proceedings, and organizational documents; identification of …

Making Reflection Assignments Meaningful And Enjoyable For Health Professions Students And Faculty, Karen A. Gibbs, Megan L. Trad, Shannon R. Herrin

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

Purpose: Recognizing the professional and personal benefits of self-reflection, health professions programs routinely incorporate reflection activities into their curricula. However, designing, administering, and grading engaging, meaningful reflection activities that can be utilized for in-person or online teaching can be challenging for faculty and less than enjoyable for students. This study explored student perceptions of a shared activity using photovoice to stimulate individual and group reflection and discussion of learning during clinical experiences. Methods: Second year, doctor of physical therapy students were asked to reflect on their clinical experiences. During the semester-long assignment, each student completed a photovoice slide …

Interprofessional Socialization Through Medical Missions And Outreach Experiences, Megan E. Colas, Karen Basedow, Christene Braunius, Tamara Pinchevsky, Aaron Hackman, Elizabeth Swann

InterLACE Research Showcase

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Sharksrx Newsletter Fall 2023, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Sharks Rx

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Short-Term Service-Learning: Implications For Preparing Health Science Students For Practice, Tamara Lemmonds, Jamie Adam, Elena Wong Espiritu, David K. Wyant

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine students’ self-reported learning outcomes following participation in collaborative interprofessional service-learning experiences through the qualitative analysis of participants’ written, guided critical reflections. Method: Participants responded to guided reflection questions pre and post trip. The four pre-trip open-ended reflection questions included: what the students expected or hoped to learn, how they expected to learn this, the importance of this learning for their career skill development and how this learning could be used in the future. Upon completion of the service-learning experience, students were asked the same questions with slight variation- What did they …

Com Outlook (Summer/Fall 2022 - Volume 21 Number 2), Nova Southeastern University

COM Outlook

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Exploring The Acculturation Experiences Of Cuban Refugee Doctors And Their Families In Miami: A Phenomenological Study, Nelson Michel Perez

Department of Family Therapy Dissertations and Applied Clinical Projects

Since 1961, the Cuban government has used its medical missions worldwide for diplomatic, ideological, financial, and humanitarian purposes (Huish, 2014; Solano, 2019). Since the collapse of the Socialist Bloc, thousands of Cuban health workers have found a means of economic subsistence and exit from the island through these missions. The U.S. Department of State (2020) declared these medical missions to be forced labor and human trafficking, a move that had multiple consequences for these professionals and their families. From 2006 to 2017, more than 9,000 Cuban health workers entered the Unites States as refugee immigrants, with many settling in South …

2021 Nsu Fact Book, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Fact Book

The 29th edition of the Nova Southeastern University (NSU) Fact Book provides perspective on the university’s character, growth, and accomplishments. The 2021 Fact Book includes narrative, numeric, and graphic representation of the university, including history, characteristics, and development of the institution. Data are presented in both tabular and graphic formats to provide pertinent detail, and general trends are highlighted.

Like all previous editions of the Fact Book, this edition is a snapshot of the university during the academic year that concludes in the year of its publication. Therefore, the 2021 Fact Book represents NSU from fall 2020 through spring …

The Current Volume 30 : Issue 17, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

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2020 Nsu Fact Book, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Fact Book

The 28th edition of the Nova Southeastern University (NSU) Fact Book provides perspective on the university’s character, growth, and accomplishments. The 2020 Fact Book includes narrative, numeric, and graphic representation of the university, including history, characteristics, and development of the institution. Data are presented in both tabular and graphic formats to provide pertinent detail, and general trends are highlighted.

Health Professions Division Catalog_2020-2021, Nova Southeastern University

Health Professions Divisions Course Catalogs and Course Descriptions

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Nsu Sharks Rx_Fall 2019, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Sharks Rx

Newsletter

A Fat Mass And Obesity-Associated Gene Polymorphism Influences Fat Mass In Exercise-Trained Individuals, Sarah Knafo, Alina Ali

Undergraduate Student Symposium

A single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) gene is a strong predictor of obesity in humans. The FTO SNP (rs1421085) results in a T to C nucleotide substitution that may result in an increased risk for obesity in individuals who carry at least one C allele. The purpose of this investigation was to characterize the FTO genotype in a cohort of exercise-trained men and women. We tested 108 exercise-trained individuals that included professional mixed martial arts fighters, competitive distance runners, collegiate swimmers, stand-up paddlers as well as a cohort of recreational bodybuilders. Body composition was …

A Study Of Pediatric Oral Health In Ahwa, Gujarat, India, Elizabeth Barley

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Oral health is a critical factor that plays an imperative role in the overall health and well-being of an individual. Dental health requires regular, preventive care at home as well as professional screenings and interventions. The goal of this research is to examine the current need for dental education for children in poor and rural villages in Gujarat, India. Previous research indicates that children aged of 12-15 have not received proper oral health education. This poster will focus on dental health and hygiene of school aged-children treated at the VAD clinic in Ahwa, Gujarat, India, including an oral health education …

Angiotensin Ii Fragment Receptor Binding In The Mouse Brain, Sarin Itty

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Angiotensin IV (Ang IV), one of the metabolites of Angiotensin II, is a key player within several systems including the kidneys, brain, and other non-traditional locations. It has functions varying from blood flow regulation, stress response, seizures, learning, and memory acquisition. Administration of Ang IV has been shown to increase cerebral microcirculation, elicit cognitive improvements, improve memory, restore cognitive deficits, and combat memory impairment. In our lab, we developed a new peptide that acts on the angiotensin system, ¹²⁷I-Ang 1-7. Previous studies showed that ¹²⁷I-Ang 1-7 is less susceptible to metabolism and ~1000-fold more potent than Ang 1-7 …

Am I #Metoo?, Maha Barakat

Undergraduate Student Symposium

In this documentary film, “Am I #MeToo?,” women of three different cultures, religions, and ethnicities will be interviewed regarding their view of the Me Too Movement. I will focus on whether they feel included and/or represented when it comes to modern social movements. The film will also question whether certain communities get left out because of the stereotypes surrounding their identities. The goal of this project is to shed light on which people are actually receiving the help they seek in these social movements. I want to provide an understanding of what empowerment is being sought through these ideologies, and …

Behavior Checklist For Preschool Children With Reading Dogs, Ammy Castillo, Jahleeyah Muhammad, Angela Ogero

Undergraduate Student Symposium

The present research looks at how dogs can improve focus and attention during book readings at a preschool to different age groups of students who are learning to read and write. An Achenbach-style behavior checklist will be created and tested for adequate psychometric properties. The distribution of the checklist to different researcher-participants will serve as a method study of inter-rater reliability and intra-rater reliability. The main purpose of this study will be to create a Behavior Checklist for Preschool Children with Reading Dogs with high reliability and validity. Additionally, the developmental differences between the different age groups of preschool students …

Bilingualism And Inhibitory Control: The Advantage Of Speaking A Second Language, Maria Morales

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Researchers speculate that speaking a second language has benefits that go beyond communicative abilities. Bilingualism has been linked to enhanced performance on executive function (EF) tasks, particularly, those that require inhibitory control. Inhibition is the ability to ignore salient, but distracting, information which may occupy and divert attention from the task at hand. To date, however, the findings have been inconsistent, and one major limitation in the literature is that most studies do not objectively quantify second language proficiency. This study, therefore, used an objective measure of language proficiency and compared bilinguals and monolinguals on tasks that require different levels …

Bittersweet Dreams (Are Made Of This): Unripe Fruit And Women, Vivian Dang

Undergraduate Student Symposium

This paper investigates the role of woman as a medicinal mother in Christina Rossetti’s 1862 Christian epic poem “Goblin Market” in which two young sisters, Laura and Lizzie, struggle with temptation as wicked goblin men attempt to coerce them into consuming their forbidden fruit. The marriage market, called the “Goblin Market” in this poem, highlights the inequities between marriage expectations for men and women and the disadvantages faced by the archetypal medicinal mother in the early development of modern medicine. While men are the producers in this misogynistic marriage market, women are not the true consumers because they are the …

Cell-Cell Communication In Bacteria Mediated By Weak Photon Emission, Roodelyne Pierrelus

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Cells, including bacteria communicate via multiple routes. Prominent amongst these is through chemical signaling. However, literature dating back to the 1970s has suggested that cells may communicate using electromagnetic forces, including weak photon (light) emission. To date, however, these predictions remain largely theoretical, or lack robust experimental support. In this study, we sought to determine if chemically separated cultures of bacteria could communicate across a boundary that allows light, but not chemical signals, to pass. To address this question, we cultured Escherichia coli initiated from either low or high density in an experimental setup that involved growing one population on …

Comparative Investigation Of Coupling Methods To Create 2,2'-Bipyridine Adducts, Sabrina Vazquez, Kylie Wilkinson

Undergraduate Student Symposium

The project aims to streamline the synthesis of 2,2’-bipyridine adducts, so they can be efficiently synthesized as precursors for ligands in novel organometallic ruthenium complexes. Specifically, the compounds being synthesized are 4,4’-methylated, 4-methylated, 5,5’-methylated, and 5-methylated, 2,2’-bipyridines. Three different synthetic methods will be explored including homo-coupling and crosscoupling reactions as well as the use of a turbo-Grignard reagent. The homo-coupling reaction with or without the turbo-Grignard reagent uses 2-bromo-4-methyl or 2-bromo-5-methyl pyridine as the starting material to produce the 4,4’-methylated adduct or 5,5’-methylated adduct respectively. This is in contrast to the cross-coupling reaction which utilizes a combination of the 2-bromo-4-methyl …

Creating Unique 3-D Printed Molecular Models To Explain The Role Of Higb Toxin In Cleaving Ribosome-Bound Mrna, Carolina Alzamora, Alesa Chabbra, Helana Ghali, Marina Handal, Mahima Kathiria, Alexander Martinek, Jenny Nguyen, Chandni Patel, Shreja Patel, Antoine Pham

Undergraduate Student Symposium

The CREST (Connecting Researchers, Educators, and STudents) team at Nova Southeastern University created two physical models depicting the mechanism of endonuclease cleavage by the HigB protein, as described in the literature. Details of the HigB-ribosome complex and its residues for mRNA cleavage were found in the Protein Data Bank file, 4ZSN, and imported into Jmol, a protein visualization software. Specific program commands were developed to manipulate the original file into a format that was later 3D-printed. The models highlight the small ribosomal subunit, ribosomal proteins, tRNA, rRNA, the mRNA strand, and HigB protein along with its residues involved in mRNA …

Disentangling The Effects Of Ptsd From Gwi Via A Network Analysis Of Cell-Cytokine-Symptom Interactions For Improved Diagnostics And Treatments, Jacob Hardy, Ricardo Castellanos

Undergraduate Student Symposium

A third of the veterans returning from Operation Desert Storm/Shield in the 1990-91 Gulf War reported cognitive dysfunction, skin rashes, musculoskeletal discomfort, and fatigue. This led to the designation of the unique stress-mediated condition Gulf War Illness (GWI). GWI is similar to other known stressmediated illnesses such as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in clinical presentation, but as yet we know no concrete understanding of the underlying mechanisms mediating the disease. As such, there are no biological diagnostic to predict the presentation of GWI. Confounding this is the high prevalence of co-morbidity with another war related condition, namely post-traumatic stress disorder …

Effect Of Standardizing Kick Plate Position On Track Start Biomechanics In Elite Swimmers, Angela Cicenia, Caroline Oster

Undergraduate Student Symposium

In the swimming track start the kick plate position on the starting block is chosen by the level of comfort of the swimmer but may influence performance. Hundredths of a second often determine the winner of short distance races. Therefore, it is crucial for a swimmer to produce a biomechanically sound start. The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of standardizing kick plate positioning based on shin length on selected biomechanics. 15 swimmers (males, 10; females, 5; age, 21.3 ± 1.7 yrs; height, 1.79 ± 0.08 m; mass, 77.4 ± 10.4 kg) participated in the study. Shin …

Effects Of Role Models And Financing Barriers On Women Entrepreneurship, Tiana Henry

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Entrepreneurship has attracted the attention of many and is seen as the economic engine that has the potential to deliver future job growth. Because of this potential it is crucial to identify what drives entrepreneurship. Extant literature has focused on entrepreneurial wealth--sufficient collateral—as a liquidity constraint hindering small business capitalization. Our study empirically investigates the expected linkage between personal wealth constraints and intention to start a business for women entrepreneurs. Further we examine the moderating effect of successful role models on women entrepreneurship. Funded by a research grant, data has been collected in the state of Alabama from women intending …

El Silbo Gomero - An Ancient Language Evolved, Nicole Suárez

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Language makes up our identity through tradition and culture. How we communicate in terms of language varies in form and style. The whistling language, El Silbo Gomero, is heard and practiced by the residents of the Canary Islands located in La Gomera. It is not a substitute but a complement to the spoken language that already exists. The whistle makes a sweet tweet and musicality that is quite similar to sounds of birds making it quite easy for the residents of La Gomera to communicate and be heard in their noisy, outdoor environment. The loudness and frequency of the whistle …

Fashion Law: A Comparative Study Of U.S. And European Models, Francesca Chavez

Undergraduate Student Symposium

The objective of this research project is to bring to light the lack of protection for fashion designers’ intellectual property in a comparative study of intellectual property laws in the United States and the European Union. Legislation and case law surrounding the intellectual property rights of designers in the U.S. enable a culture of “fast fashion” where designs are stolen with ease and mass produced at a low cost to consumers with no legal ramifications. The erosion of intellectual property rights has revealed to have far-reaching ethical implications beyond the injustice the original designer concerning environmental impact and unfair labor …

Harmful Or Helpful?: Helicopter Parenting Among Latina/O Emerging Adults, Alina Alba, Samantha Mirman, Nehemie Dantica, Stephanie Nguyen

Undergraduate Student Symposium

When young adults enter college, parents sometimes have difficulties relinquishing control over their child. Parents might continue to be overinvolved and oversolicitous in their child’s life while in college, which is referred to as helicopter parenting (HP). HP tends to be developmentally inappropriate for college students, who often seek autonomy and independence during this time of emerging adulthood. Controlling parenting in general has been linked to the impostor phenomenon, or impostorism, which involves distressed feelings of being intellectually fraudulent despite being highly capable. However, from the perspective of Latina/o emerging adults (those between 18 and 25 years old), parental control …

Hollow, Amelia Figueroa, Jieun Son

Undergraduate Student Symposium

“Hollow” is a narrative short about a girl that breaks up with her emotionally abusive boyfriend after countless months of trying to make things work. In the final moments of their relationship, the story explores how it all started, what lead her to this point, and how she copes and perseveres in the aftermath. The film is directed by Amelia Figueroa and Jieun Son. Other crew members and actors involved TBA. The film is meant to be a narrative message about emotionally abusive relationships. More recently in pop culture, there’s been a wave of songs and stories about toxic relationships …