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Record W2137973693

An evalutation of the British Columbia rural health video network link.

2002· dissertation· en· W2137973693 on OpenAlex
Jeff A. May

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueAUSpace (Athabasca University) · 2002
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicGlobal Health Workforce Issues
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLink (geometry)TelecommunicationsGeographyLibrary scienceComputer networkEngineeringComputer science
DOInot available

Abstract

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The British Columbia Rural Health Video Network Link initiative strove to provide quality educational experiences, clinical consultations, and clinical service support to the population of nine physicians in Vanderhoof during the period from November 1, 2001, to November 30, 2002. The purpose of this study was to perform an evaluation of the project with a particular focus on the continuing medical education component (CME). A needs assessment, two focus groups, six CME rounds delivered via videoconference, and a final site visit, were the foci for evaluating project effectiveness. Participants reacted positively to all six sessions, reporting a moderate to high level of agreement that the videoconference medium provided the best way of delivering CME material. The findings suggest that the needs-based CME rounds were effective in fulfilling the educational requests of physicians, positively influencing their clinical practices, and improving patient care. However, the only way this group of physicians will welcome the technology again is in the form of a sustainable initiative with guaranteed funding and 24-hour, highly reliable access. Therefore, future telehealth delivery into other rural communities should follow the Telehealth Uptake Strategy, first described in this paper, with a funding guarantee for three to five years, which includes the provision of a project coordinator and identification and cooperation of a local "change agent" with administrative support. The Shared Provincial Access Network/Provincial Learning Network is underutilized and offers an opportunity to bridge the CME access gap between rural and urban physicians. The network was very reliable between the hours of 0730-0900 and 1500-2000, exceeding 95% problem-free connectivity. The evaluation produced 23 recommendations.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.559
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0040.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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 head0.019
GPT teacher head0.330
Teacher spread0.312 · 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