LEAH interdisciplinary training program

Opportunities and challenges of interdisciplinary research career development: implementation of a women's health research training program.

BACKGROUND A key component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap for Medical Research is the development of interdisciplinary research teams. How best to teach and foster interdisciplinary research skills has not been determined. An effort at promoting interdisciplinary research was initiated by the Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) at NIH in 1999. The following year, 12 ...

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ABSTRACf This study is concerned with detailed expansions for the renewal function H(t) and various of its generalizations. Our assumptions concerning the growth rate of the tail of the underlying lifetime distribution F(x) are of the form f: x\lM(x)dF(x) < co, where \I ~ 0 and M(x) belongs to an appropriate class of monotone functions. l~en F(x) has a finite variance, it is shown that (for t >...

Postgraduate training program.

BACKGROUND Faculties face the permanent challenge to design training programs with well-balanced educational outcomes, and to offer various organised and individual learning opportunities. AIM To apply our original model to a postgraduate training program in rheumatology in general, and to various learning experiences in particular, in order to analyse the balance between different educationa...

Interdisciplinary research career development: building interdisciplinary research careers in women's health program best practices.

BACKGROUND The Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Institutes and Centers and the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) have sponsored an interdisciplinary research career development program in five funding cycles since 2000 through a K12 mechanism titled "Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH)." A...