Military surgeon selected as co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Surgery
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Abstract
OTTAWA – The Canadian Journal of Surgery has appointed Major Vivian McAlister, a Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) surgeon, as co-editor, highlighting the high esteem in which CAF doctors are held in the medical community.When not engaged in military duties, Major McAlister works at Western University in London, Ontario as a Professor of Surgery. He is also a member of the Council of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada."Major McAlister’s appointment as co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Surgery illustrates the very high quality of health professionals within the Canadian Armed Forces," said the Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence."The health of Canadian Armed Forces personnel is a top priority for this government and medical officers such as Major McAlister represent the finest doctors in our country and abroad. I congratulate him on behalf of the Government of Canada."The mission of the Canadian Journal of Surgery, a publication of the Canadian Medical Association, is to contribute to the effective continuing medical education of Canadian surgical specialists, using innovative techniques when feasible, and to provide surgeons with an effective vehicle for the dissemination of observations in the areas of clinical and basic science research."As a professor of surgery who has completed six tours in combat, mentorship, and humanitarian assistance operations in Afghanistan and Haiti, Major McAlister brings a superb international reputation and an extraordinary wealth of experience to the Canadian Journal of Surgery," said Brigadier-General Jean-Robert Bernier, the Surgeon General. "His contributions to the journal’s educational mission, his work at Western University, and his service on the Royal College’s council all exemplify the close collaboration and mutual support between the civilian and military medical communities. This close relationship has existed since before Confederation and benefits all Canadians."Contact: Joanna.Labonte@forces.gc.caNotes to editor / news director: For more information on Canadian Forces Health Services please visit: http://www.forces.gc.ca/health-sante/default-eng.asp.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.019 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.027 | 0.019 |
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".