Professional Training, Standards, and Status for Entomologists

Forensic Entomologists: An Evaluation of their Status

The National Academy of Sciences ( 2009 ) published a review charting several key recommendations on strengthening the forensic sciences as an entity as part of an initiative put forth by the USA Congress to streamline and improve the quality of the forensic sciences and their impact on the judiciary process. Although the review was not totally inclusive, many of its sentiments have permeated i...

Professional Standards Review Organization and pedodontics: a status report.

The Professional Standards Review Organization is a Federal quality assurance program for Medicaid, Medicare, and Crippled Children’s Programs health services which was legislated in the early 1970s in response to administrative, economic, social, and professional concerns. The program is now fully implemented and provides local review of hospital admissions, including pedodontic admissions, th...

Standards for postdoc training.

Postdoctoral (Postdoc) training has become virtually institutionalized in many parts of the world as a discrete stage in the career progression in most science and engineering fields. However, there is far too much variability in what such training involves, across institutions and among the laboratories within them. Given its importance and pervasiveness—there are over 50,000 postdocs in the U...

Professional Standards Review Organizations

NAEYC Standards for Early Childhood Professional Preparation