SAT-205 POEMS: A Medical Odyssey

Medical faculty development: a modern-day odyssey.

Academic medical centers (AMCs) are pillars of the community; they provide health care, create jobs, educate biomedical professionals, and engage in research and innovation. To sustain their impact on human health, AMCs must improve the professional satisfaction of their faculty. Here, we describe ways to enhance recruitment, retention, creativity, and productivity of health science faculty.

A personal scientific odyssey.

When I was just a little kid growing up in Philadelphia, I had heroes just like any other kid. But my real hero was old Albert Einstein himself. I liked him even more than my basketball heroes on the Philadelphia Warriors Paul Arizin, Tom Gola and of course Wilt Chamberlin. I had taken up basketball in Elementary School mainly to avoid having to pay the tough neighborhood guys bribes to take th...

A Standardization Odyssey

29 proposing the UML specification for international standardization. It is anticipated that the " fast track " PAS process will complete sometime next year, at which time UML will be formally recognized as an international standard for information technology. The major benefits of international standardization for a specification include wide recognition and acceptance, which typically enlarge...

2010: A Publishing Odyssey

With this first issue of the year, Cell launches a new format for online presentation of all research articles. This " Article of the Future " initiative reflects our commitment to evolve the concept of a scientific publication in step with the development of new technologies and functionalities both now and into the future. The first print issue of Cell in 1974 established a highly recognizabl...

Mystic Poems, Poems of Enlightment