Connectivity Need Not Come at the Expense of Professionalism

Does Athletic Success Come at the Expense of Academic Success?

Claims are often made about the impact of high school athletics on academic achievement without reference to empirical research on the issue. In this paper we empirically examine the relationship between the extent to which high schools have winning sports teams, offer a variety of sports options, and facilitate student participation in athletics on schools’ overall student achievement and atta...

Not a loss of professionalism.

Recently I came across a series of articles authored by Dr Stange and his colleagues that were published in the Annals of Family Medicine.1-7 They immediately captivated me. It was Dr Stange’s article on the science of connectedness that particularly, well, connected with me.2 While many of the concepts and theories of Dr Stange were unknown to me, I was struck by how strongly they resonated wi...

conditional copula-garch methods for value at risk of portfolio: the case of tehran stock exchange market

ارزش در معرض ریسک یکی از مهمترین معیارهای اندازه گیری ریسک در بنگاه های اقتصادی می باشد. برآورد دقیق ارزش در معرض ریسک موضوع بسیارمهمی می باشد و انحراف از آن می تواند موجب ورشکستگی و یا عدم تخصیص بهینه منابع یک بنگاه گردد. هدف اصلی این مطالعه بررسی کارایی روش copula-garch شرطی در برآورد ارزش در معرض ریسک پرتفویی متشکل از دو سهام می باشد و ارزش در معرض ریسک بدست آمده با روشهای سنتی برآورد ارزش د...

Are we living at the expense of the developing countries ?

Your professionalism is not my professionalism: congruence and variance in the views of medical students and faculty about professionalism

BACKGROUND Medical professionalism is an essential aspect of medical education and practice worldwide and it must be adopted according to different social and cultural contexts. We examined the current congruence and variance in the perception of professionalism in undergraduate medical students and faculty members in one medical school in Saudi Arabia. METHODS The target population was first...