Remuneration of clinical academic staff

An Evaluation of Remuneration Patterns in Academic Plastic Surgery.

RESULTS: Eighty-five out of the 282 ACAPS members (30.1%) responded to the survey (Table 1). Eighty participants (94%) reported having mainly a reconstructive practice. The majority of survey participants (69.1%) had a base salary plus a bonus based either on collections or WRVUs (Figure 1). Sixty-three percent of plastic surgeons in the survey received less than $50 as a compensation per WRVU....

Academic and Research Staff

Our general objectives are concerned with the study of atomic and molecular processes and with the transport of charged particles in weakly ionized collision-dominated plasmas. During the past year our efforts in this field have been on a rather modest scale. The research that we have conducted was concerned with the effects of pipe turbulence on the electrical conductivity and on the diffusion...

Academic and Research Staff

In an earlier study Gruberg and Solish showed that salamander somatosensory spino-tectal fibers took the same course and ended in the same layer of the intermediate tectal neuropil as 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT or serotonin) fibers as seen by Falck-Hillarp fluorescence. In order to determine whether the spino-tectal fibers are themselves serotonergic, we have carried out anatomical, biochemical,...

Clinical trial remuneration: the patients' perspective.

To the Editor: The remuneration of patients in clinical trials is controversial because money may influence their decision to participate. When the amount becomes irresistible, it represents undue inducement and may persuade patients to participate in a clinical trial or resist discontinuation against their better judgement, which can potentially compromise the informed consent process and the ...

Systematic Program Development Academic Staff