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Introduction: This multi-professional programme was developed by the stroke team at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital (CWH) to support stroke survivors post discharge into the community. Approximately one third of patients have significant impairments post stroke;physical, cognitive, visual, or speech/language related. Most patients and carers suffer a period of adjustment post discharge. The psychological aspect of stroke can have a huge impact beyond the inpatient setting. Method(s): The programme aims to: - Provide a platform where patients and relatives can meet the stroke team, giving them opportunity to become more informed of their own experience and highlight on-going needs. - Strengthen alliances with community and voluntary services. - Empower patients to seek self-management strategies to monitor and progress their long-term condition. - Sign-post stroke survivors to community stroke help groups and charities. - Increase high quality rehabilitation in-line with the NHS Longterm Plan. - Build a network of stroke survivors that support each other during their recovery. Result(s): The programme was planned face-to-face yet due to the Covid Pandemic, our first session ran virtually on 20/09/21, followed by 4 sessions every 2 months. Further sessions will hopefully be face-to-face. Conclusion(s): Feedback from stroke survivor attendees has been extremely positive (100% recommend it). We presented our innovative programme at a Dragon's Den style Trust event in November 2021. Feedback was very complimentary and we were privileged enough to receive a 10,000 Grant funded by NHS England and CWH Charity. This Grant will go towards development of the programme, support our stroke unit and nurse training.
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SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: 180 residents in an internal medicine residency program DESCRIPTION: COVID-related restrictions on gathering have created challenges to community-building during residency, an important way to mitigate burnout. The ongoing stresses of the pandemic also have led to a sense of “languishing,” which can decrease engagement with everyday activities. To promote community and support resident- driven ideas, we created an innovative “ticket drop” and mini-grant program. Residents were invited to submit ideas for either ticket-based events in the city, or for mini-grants to lead a community-building activity. The Residency Well- Being Committee sponsored one event of each type per month based on evolving COVID guidelines. The committee advertised the ticket drops to all residents, purchased tickets, and allocated them by lottery to ensure equitable access. The initiative was funded by a departmental allocation to the residency program. EVALUATION: Ticket drop and mini-grant events generated many ideas from residents and were well-attended. Residents submitted 23 ideas in the first 6 months of the initiative, and we have been able to fund 1-2 per month. Ticket drop events to date included a professional baseball game, a special exhibit at an art museum, and an evening at the science academy. Residents receiving mini-grants have planned a ceramics night, an arcade game night, and a kayaking event. The intervention is ongoing, and we will present final descriptive data about participation as well as survey data about facilitators and barriers to success of each event and the overall effects of this initiative on social cohesion in residency. Early feedback suggests that identifying a resident champion for each event increases enthusiasm, and that having events preplanned overcomes the low motivation that is widespread during the lingering pandemic. Participants also noted learning about new cultural attractions in their city, which deepened connection with the wider community outside residency. Events were attended by residents at all levels of training and promoted cohesion across residency classes. For many events, the impact extended beyond tickets paid for by the residency, as other residents bought tickets for themselves or for their partners. DISCUSSION / REFLECTION / LESSONS LEARNED: Our residency ticket drop program is a relatively low-cost, low-effort, moderate-impact innovation that represents a sustainable way to increase connections in residency. A modest financial investment can have a large impact on community building if events are targeted to meet resident-identified priorities. Nurturing interests outside of medicine, such as in the arts, entertainment, or cultural attractions, may allow residents to further connect as humans with diverse interests as well as colleagues.
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The Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) is the United Arab Emirates (UAE) first mission to Mars and is the first Arab mission to another planet. It launched an unmanned observatory called "Hope" into an elliptical orbit around Mars on July 20, 2020 carrying three scientific instruments to study the Martian atmosphere in visible, ultraviolet, and infrared wavelengths. EMM will be the first mission to provide the first truly global picture of the Martian atmosphere, revealing important information about how atmospheric processes drive diurnal variations for a period of one Martian year. This will provide scientists with valuable understanding of the changes to the Martian atmosphere today through the achievement of three scientific objectives: A. Characterize the state of the Martian lower atmosphere on global scales and its geographic, diurnal and seasonal variability. B. Correlate rates of thermal and photochemical atmospheric escape with conditions in the collisional Martian atmosphere. C. Characterize the spatial structure and variability of key constituents in the Martian exosphere. The mission is led by Emiratis from Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) and is expanding the nation s human capital through knowledge transfer programs set with international partners from the University of Colorado Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), Arizona State University (ASU) School of Earth and Space Exploration, and University of California Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL). The paper highlights the driving motivation behind the mission, its scientific objectives and instruments, the unforeseen challenges amid the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the status and accomplishments of the mission since its Mars Orbit insertion on Feb 9, 2021. © 2021 International Astronautical Federation, IAF. All rights reserved.
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