Scholarship Support for Veterans Enrolling in MD, JD, and MBA Programs

In memoriam: Stephen F. Lowry, MD, MBA.

The rapid growth of MD/MBA programs: are they worth it.

As the need for management skills for physicians becomes ever more evident, the number of MD/MBA programs has doubled in the past decade. About 65 dual-degree programs are offered in the United States, with more on the way. At the annual meeting of Association of MD/MBA Programs last year, 48 universities from three countries were represented. Maria Young Chandler, MD, MBA, the association’s fo...

MD/MBA Students: An Analysis of Medical Student Career Choice.

BACKGROUND An increasing number of medical schools are offering dual degree MD/MBA programs. Career choices and factors influencing students to enter these programs provide an indicator of the roles in which dual degree students will serve in health care as well as the future of dual degree programs. PURPOSE Using career choice theory as a conceptual framework, career goals and factors influe...

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...

American College of Surgeons International scholarship programs: 40-year history of support for International Surgical Education.

I T s f o g y t rom the time of its founding in 1913, the American ollege of Surgeons (ACS) has promoted educational nd research collaborations with other medical associaions. It is therefore fitting that a program to support nternational surgical scholars was formalized in 1968 ith the launching of the International Guest Scholarhip (IGS) program. The first scholars were funded partly by a beq...