Rewarding Academic Excellence

Rewarding excellence in biomedical research

Every year since 1986, the Louis Jeantet Foundation has distinguished excellence in biomedical research in Europe by awarding a Prize to exceptional Scientists whose innovative research has advanced medicine. Rather than marking past achievements, the Louis Jeantet Prize aims to encourage and support innovative ongoing research projects. Over the years, many exceptional researchers have receive...

Rewarding excellence and efficiency in Medicare payments.

Medicare could become an innovative leader in using financial incentives to reward health care providers for providing excellent and efficient care throughout a patient's illness. This article examines the variations in cost and quality in the provision of episodes of care and describes how a pay-for-performance payment system could be designed to narrow those variations and serve as a transiti...

Proceedings of the 2008 Academic Excellence Showcase

An anthropological study of families and their children in the colonia of Ladrillera, located in the U.S.Mexico border town of Agua Prieta, Sonora, based on field research conducted during the summer of 2007 while taking part in WOU’s first ever U.S.-Mexico border field school. This paper utilizes the theories of underdevelopment and dependency to help us understand the experiences of children ...

Mentoring in academic medicine: A challenging yet rewarding endeavour.

Implications of academic medicine's failure to recognize clinical excellence.

OBJECTIVE To better understand the implications of inadequately recognizing clinical excellence in academia by exploring the perspectives of clinically excellent faculty within prominent American departments of medicine. DESIGN Qualitative study. SETTING 8 academic institutions. PARTICIPANTS 24 clinically excellent department of medicine physicians. METHODS Between March 1 and May 31, 2...