Bibliographic record
Abstract
This issue’s interviewee is Richard Ballon Goldbloom, (O.C., B.Sc., M.D., C.M., F.R.C.P.C., D.Litt (Hon), LLD (Hon), a paediatrician who has always advocated for closer ties with psychiatry. In 1967, he was appointed Professor and Head of the Department of Pediatrics at Dalhousie University, and Physician-in-Chief and Director of Research at the Izaak Walton Killam Hospital for Children in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He held these posts from 1967 to 1985. He was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada in 1987 in recognition of contributions to regional health care for children. He has authored over 120 original papers in the medical literature and numerous textbook chapters. He edited (with Dr. Robert S. Lawrence) a book entitled “Preventing Disease, Beyond the Rhetoric”, published in 1990. His second book, “Pediatric Clinical Skills”, first published by Churchill-Livingstone, NY, in June 1992, has been extremely popular with medical undergraduates and postgraduates. A fourth edition will be published in 2010. He achieved international recognition as a pioneer of family participation in the care of hospitalized children, having introduced one of the first Care-by-Parent Units in Canada. He has held visiting professorships and distinguished lectureships throughout the world, including Litchfield Lecturer at Oxford University and Visiting Professor of Pediatrics at Shanghai Medical University, Tel Aviv University and other universities throughout Canada and the United States. In 1986, he was named Sir Arthur Sims Commonwealth Travelling Professor, and visited universities and hospitals in India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom. In 1997, he received the Ross Award, the highest recognition of the Canadian Pediatric Society. He served as Chancellor of Dalhousie University from 2001–2008 and is currently Chancellor Emeritus.
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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 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.124 | 0.044 |
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".