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Davis Rebekah A, Lee Kachiu C, Lee Ivy A, Levin Yakir S, Garibyan L. Innovating on innovation training with the Virtual Magic Wand (VMW) program: a qualitative study. Arch Dermatol Res 2023; 315:513-519. [PMID: 36121556 PMCID: PMC9483859 DOI: 10.1007/s00403-022-02392-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2022] [Revised: 08/26/2022] [Accepted: 09/07/2022] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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To identify and solve unmet needs and bring new therapies to patients, clinicians at all levels must engage in innovation. The Magic Wand Initiative, a program based at Massachusetts General Hospital-Wellman Center for Photomedicine, created a 10-months course called the Virtual Magic Wand (VMW) program that is a curriculum that teaches the biomedical innovation pathway to dermatologists and engages them in this creative process. This study aims to identify the impact of the VMW program on participants and consider the potential benefits of an innovation curriculum. The authors conducted semi-structured interviews in which alumni of the VMW program were asked about their experiences with innovation before, during, and after the program. Using grounded theory methodology, data were analyzed using deductive coding methods. The most cited benefit of the program was the opportunity to network (n = 12, 100%)-specifically, the mentorship opportunities (n = 10, 83%) and specialty-specific peer groups (n = 9, 75%). Other benefits included a change in mindset regarding their clinical work (n = 11, 92%) and learning the process of innovation (83%). Among barriers, lack of time (n = 7, 58%), knowledge (n = 6, 50%), and resources (n = 5, 42%), were the most mentioned. All alumni interviewed have stayed engaged in the field of biomedical innovation after their completion of the VMW program. These findings show that the VMW program positively impacted the lives and careers of participants. This study identified some of the systemic reasons that deter physicians from regularly engaging in innovation and provides guidance for how to design other innovation programs and further support the advancement of medicine.
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- A Davis Rebekah
- Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
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- Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, 40 Blossom St, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.
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Shome S, Parra RG, Fatima N, Monzon AM, Cuypers B, Moosa Y, Coimbra NDR, Assis J, Giner-Delgado C, Dönertaş HM, Cuesta-Astroz Y, Saarunya G, Allali I, Gupta S, Srivastava A, Kalsan M, Valdivia C, J Olguin-Orellana G, Papadimitriou S, Parisi D, Kristensen NP, Rib L, Guebila MB, Bauer E, Zaffaroni G, Bekkar A, Ashano E, Paladin L, Necci M, Moreyra NN, Rydén M, Villalobos-Solís J, Papadopoulos N, Rafael C, Karakulak T, Kaya Y, Gladbach Y, Dhanda SK, Šoštarić N, Alex A, DeBlasio D, Rahman F. Global network of computational biology communities: ISCB's Regional Student Groups breaking barriers. F1000Res 2019; 8. [PMID: 31508204 PMCID: PMC6720036 DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.20408.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/26/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Regional Student Groups (RSGs) of the International Society for Computational Biology Student Council (ISCB-SC) have been instrumental to connect computational biologists globally and to create more awareness about bioinformatics education. This article highlights the initiatives carried out by the RSGs both nationally and internationally to strengthen the present and future of the bioinformatics community. Moreover, we discuss the future directions the organization will take and the challenges to advance further in the ISCB-SC main mission: "Nurture the new generation of computational biologists".
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- Sayane Shome
- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, Iowa State University, Iowa, USA
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- Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Science for Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Upsala, Sweden
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.,Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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- KZN Research and Innovation Sequencing Platform, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa
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- Graduate Program in Bioinformatics, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Graduate Program in Bioinformatics, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
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- School of Microbiology, Universidad de Antioquía, Medellín, Colombia.,Colombian Tropical Medicine Institute (ICMT), Universidad CES, Medellín, Colombia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, South Caroli a, USA
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Rabat, Morocco.,Division of Computational Biology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- School of Computational and Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
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- School of Computational and Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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- Ecosystem's Health Laboratory, Universidad Andres, Bello Santiago, Chile
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- Interuniversity Institute of Bioinformatics in Brussels, Université libre de Bruxelles-Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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- The Bioinformatics Center, Biology and Biotech Research and Innovation Center, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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- Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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- Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Molecular Diagnostics, Laboratory Services, APIN Public Health Initiatives, Abuja, Nigeria
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Genetics and Evolution of Buenos Aires (IEGEBA), CONICET-UBA, Institute of Ecology, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Biomedical Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Laboratorio de Biotenología de Plantas, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica (UNA), Heredia, Costa Rica
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- Quantitative and Computational Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
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- Research Unit for Bioinformatics, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
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- Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey
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- Hacettepe University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Ankara, Turkey
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- University Medical Center Rostock, University Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla Institute for Immunology, California, USA
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- Roche Diagnostics Automation Solutions GmbH, Roche, Waiblingen, Germany
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- Computational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
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- Genomics and Computational Biology Research Group, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK.,School of Human and Life Sciences, Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent, UK
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Shome S, Meysman P, Parra RG, Monzon AM, Palopoli N, White B, Rahman F, Hassan M, Özkeserli Z, Ashano E, Hughitt VK, Uzair Khan M, Murphy DJ. ISCB-Student Council Narratives: Strategical development of the ISCB-Regional Student Groups in 2016. F1000Res 2016; 5. [PMID: 28105301 PMCID: PMC5224681 DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.10420.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/16/2016] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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Regional Student Groups are groups established and managed by the ISCB-Student Council in different regions of the world. The article highlights some of the initiatives and management lessons from our 'top-performing' Spotlight Regional Student Groups (RSGs), RSG-Argentina and RSG-UK, for the current year (2016). In addition, it details some of the operational hurdles faced by RSGs and possible solutions.
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- Sayane Shome
- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program,, Iowa State University, Ames, USA
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- Advanced Database Research and Modeling group (ADReM), Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium; Biomedical Informatics Research Network Antwerp (biomina), University Hospital Antwerp/University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Protein Physiology Laboratory, Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, UBA-CONICET-IQUIBICEN, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Quantitative and Computational Biology Group, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany
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- Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Unidad de Físico Química, Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Fundación Instituto Leloir-IIBBA-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Genomics and Computational Biology Research Group, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales, Wales, UK
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- Genomics and Computational Biology Research Group, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales, Wales, UK
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- Medical Biotechnology Program, Bioinformatics Group, Institute of Medical Sciences, Acibadem University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Immuno-virology and Vaccine Development Unit, Medical Biotechnology Department, National Biotechnology Development Agency, Abuja, Nigeria; Bioinformatics Research Group, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria
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- Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, USA; Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
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- Biotechnology and biotechnology program. Institute of integrative biosciences, CECOS University of Information Technology and Emerging Sciences, KPK, Pakistan
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- Genomics and Computational Biology Research Group, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales, Wales, UK
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