Bibliographic record
Abstract
Important changes are happening at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, in how they assess our trainees' competency and readiness for independent practice.For many of us already in practice, the changes that we are witnessing in how we manage patients, such as electronic patient records, evolving technologies and greater patient awareness of treatment options through the internet, mirrors what is happening in the world outside of urology.Patients read about self-driving cars, widespread use of robotics in industry, expansion of apps that can perform almost any function and the explosion of cell phone power, replacing desk top computers, expect advances in healthcare to be similarly rapid.The CUA recognizes that these "advances" will be welcomed by most, but can represent a challenge for others and are poised to provide resources to help our membership deal with these changes.As an example, while on-line education is important today, its role in maintaining your competency and ability to continue to practice urology at the highest level, will undoubtedly increase rapidly over the next decade.It is with that understanding, that we have devoted many hours to our website and have asked our office of education team to enhance our current educational offerings, assess our ability to transmit educational programs from the live learning at the annual meeting to self-assessment learning acccesible on the CPD site and look at innovative ways to provide continuing professional development to our membership.Our annual meeting is being designed with interactive sessions focused on the needs of the practicing urologist, providing new treatment approaches, and interactive sessions that address controversial topics.The days of a social-first CUA Annual Meeting have passed, as we recognize that our membership wants high quality science, pragmatic lectures that are interactive and practice focused, with a first-rate social program to boot!The needs and practice patterns of todays urology graduates will likely be very different than what many of us have asked of the CUA in the past.It isn't just the rapid progress of technology that is changing what we do and how we do it.Strauss and Howe
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.024 | 0.001 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".