Education and training. Cancer center participation in biomedical education—opportunity or hazard?

Participation in moral hazard problems

Two principals engage in Hotelling competition for an agent's services under incomplete information as to her outside option (location). This renders the agent's participation decision probabilistic from the perspective of each principal. Regardless of the market structure at equilibrium the optimal contract features a trade-off between participation probability and incentives. Rent and effort ...

Pain education and training: progress or paralysis?

The time has come for organized medicine, led by the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) working with other pain organizations, to address systematically and rigorously the need for standards in pain education for all medical schools and relevant training in pain management for all clinical specialties. This education and training needs to be provided by faculty uniformly and reliably trai...

Design Thinking applied in Education or Training

As innovation becomes the cornerstone for new problem solving and creation of private and public value, this paper introduces the design thinking approach as a new means of systematic innovation. We introduce the approach with two short examples from programs to graduate students. We illustrate the setup of a design thinking program by using the HPI School of Design Thinking as a case study in ...

patterns and variations in native and non-native interlanguage pragmatic rating: effects of rater training, intercultural proficiency, and self-assessment

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...

redundant publication' or 'duplicate publication' in the biomedical literature