Formula for Success

A formula for success.

Primary school children in a large-scale OSCE: recipe for disaster or formula for success?

BACKGROUND Many medical schools have moved to large end-of-year Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) in which it is difficult to involve children as patients. It is nevertheless important to assess student competencies in clinical examination of children. METHODS We set up a partnership with a local primary school, where children aged 8-11 years have assisted with our OSCE annua...

A Worldwide State-of-the-Art Analysis for Bus Rapid Transit: Looking for the Success Formula

his paper’s intended contribution, in terms of providing an additional angle in the existing Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) state-of-the-art knowledge spectrum, is a dual one. On the one hand, it provides a detailed description of the mode, re-deining BRT as an overall concept by identifying, discussing, and categorizing in a systematic way its strengths and its weaknesses in comparison with rail-base...

Saudi Arabia-United States collaboration in health research: a formula for success.

The aim of this article is to share our experiences from an international collaborative effort to study health outcomes among Saudi Arabian National Guard (SANG) soldiers following the 1991 Gulf War. By paying particular attention to distinct social and religious customs, geopolitical differences, and unique aspects of the health care system, we achieved a successful international collaboration...

Evaluating the efficacy of adaptive management approaches: is there a formula for success?

Within the field of natural-resources management, the application of adaptive management is appropriate for complex problems high in uncertainty. Adaptive management is becoming an increasingly popular management-decision tool within the scientific community and has developed into two primary schools of thought: the Resilience-Experimentalist School (with high emphasis on stakeholder involvemen...