Achieve perfect clarity as you work

"You Can't Miss it!": Judging the Clarity of Directions

The perfect time to say "thank you"

The year of 2007 was very special to the Journal of Applied Oral Science (JAOS). Some of our main goals were achieved like the increase in the number of international reviewers and contributors. Our online submission system, launched on November 1, has been receiving comments and suggestions. We encourage contributors and reviewers to keep on expressing their opinions about the online submissio...

Supporting clinician educators to achieve “work-work balance”

Clinician Educators (CE) have numerous responsibilities in different professional domains, including clinical, education, research, and administration. Many CEs face tensions trying to manage these often competing professional responsibilities and achieve "work-work balance." Rich discussions of techniques for work-work balance amongst CEs at a medical education conference inspired the authors ...

Perfect and nearly perfect sampling of work-conserving queues

We present sampling-based methods to treat work-conserving queueing systems. A variety of models are studied. Besides the First Come First Served (FCFS) queues, many efforts are putted on the accumulating priority queue (APQ), where a customer accumulates priority linearly while waiting. APQs have Poisson arrivals, multi-class customers with corresponding service durations, and single or multip...

Frontline learning of medical teaching: “you pick up as you go through work and practice”

BACKGROUND Few medical teachers have received formal teaching education. Along with individual and organizational barriers to participation in teacher training programs, increasing numbers and altered distribution of physicians away from major teaching centers have increased the difficulty of attendance. Furthermore, it is not known if traditional faculty development formats are the optimal lea...