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Record W1494715620 · doi:10.4212/cjhp.v59i2.221

A Motivation Letter

2006· article· en· W1494715620 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Mary H. H. Ensom

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicPharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
Canadian institutionsChildren's & Women's Health Centre of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPharmacyFeelingPharmacistListing (finance)PsychologyRecallMedical educationSocial psychologyMedicineNursingCognitive psychology

Abstract

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Once upon a time, there was a pre-pharmacy student who wrote a “motivation letter”. As was the case for all applicants to the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy, she had to convince the selection committee (in 500 words) that her motivation for becoming a pharmacist qualified her for acceptance to pharmacy school. That student was me, and I vividly recall how I struggled to write that letter. I ended up listing such lofty goals as “helping mankind by making a significant difference in the well-being of patients” and “having a fulfilling professional career”. Now, almost 32 years later, I find myself writing another motivation letter. As I embark on my 5-year term as Editor of CJHP, I ask myself what exactly has motivated me to take on this major endeavour. This time, the answer is easy and requires just 16 words: “I would like to give something back to the profession that has given me so much.” Little did I appreciate that those big words in my pharmacy motivation letter would ring so true and be so directly applicable today in my role as Editor. Back then, I used the words more as a way to gain acceptance to pharmacy school than to describe my true feelings. Now, I can’t think of words any more appropriate to describe exactly how I feel.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.039
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.162
Threshold uncertainty score0.541

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.039
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0050.001
Scholarly communication0.0050.002
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0120.008
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1620.073

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.079
GPT teacher head0.349
Teacher spread0.269 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2006
Admission routes2
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