{"id":2429,"date":"2017-03-23T11:16:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T15:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/perceptual-studies\/?page_id=2429"},"modified":"2025-02-24T09:17:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T14:17:50","slug":"educational-activities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/perceptual-studies\/resources\/educational-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Educational Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the limited resources available, a deliberate decision was made for the focus of the Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS)<\/strong><\/span> to be a research unit rather than provide\u00a0instruction as the the main contribution of the Division to this field of study. In addition, the Division\u2019s organizational affiliation within the UVA School of Medicine precludes its having direct responsibility for teaching classes leading to academic degrees. Nevertheless, the members of research faculty and have engaged in a considerable amount of\u00a0mentoring in various ways over the years.<\/p>\n

The following are\u00a0the current educational opportunities and activities in place at the UVA Division of Perceptual Studies<\/span><\/span>:<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Lectures and Public Events<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Members of the research faculty sometimes give lectures within the department of the UVA School of Medicine Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences, as guest lecturers at other universities or institutions, and at professional conferences and special public lecture events.<\/p>\n

Please contact us at DOPS@virginia.edu<\/a><\/strong> if your\u00a0academic institution, interest group or professional research\u00a0organization\u00a0would like to\u00a0invite the faculty individually or collectively, to speak about their research.<\/p>\n

For more information, please see public lectures by the DOPS faculty<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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DOPS Research Faculty Presented at the UVA Medical Center Hour, February, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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Recently, the DOPS research faculty had the opportunity to present at the UVA School of Medicine Medical Center Hour<\/a><\/strong> to commemorate 50 years of research into the question of post-mortem survival of consciousness.<\/p>\n

Click here to view the UVA DOPS faculty present their research at the UVA Medical Center Hour-Is there Life after Death? Fifty Years of Research at UVA<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

To view a curated collection of other lectures by\u00a0the DOPS research faculty, please see our UVA Division of Perceptual Studies YouTube Channe<\/strong>l<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Summer Research Interns<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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Medical Students Kelsey O’Leary and Monica Janke, Class of 2019-UVA DOPS Research Interns, Summer 2016<\/p><\/div>\n

Since the year 2002, DOPS has engaged 1 or 2 first year UVA medical student summer research interns<\/strong><\/a> in coding the cases of children who report memories of previous lives. The medical students apply and are interviewed for this summer research program. The medical students are here for 7-8 weeks during their break from their first and second year of medical school. \u00a0The students are supervised and trained in the coding procedures in a standardized manner. They are then given access to the files and field notes of the cases of children who remember previous lives. Using standardized procedures, they code the cases for over 200 variables. Once a case is coded, the data is entered into a large SPSS data base. The medical students are then encouraged to create a research project of their own in which they use statistical analysis to look for patterns and and trends in the data. At the end of the summer, the medical students typically give a presentation about their project to the faculty and write a short summary paper. It is possible for these medical student projects to evolve into published academic papers with the guidance and collaboration of the research faculty.<\/p>\n

Research Student Publications:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n