Significant Factors That Influence Pharmacy Students’ Decisions to Pursue Residencies

Factors that Influence Information Systems Undergraduates to Pursue IT Certification

We identify factors that influence the intent of undergraduate information systems majors to pursue IT certification. Previous research has revealed that IT/IS hiring managers may use certification as a job requirement or to differentiate between job candidates with similar levels of education and experience. As well, salary surveys have shown that certified employees often make more money and ...

Factors that affect academic performance among pharmacy students.

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to examine factors such as academic competence, test competence, time management, strategic studying, and test anxiety, and identify whether these factors could distinguish differences among students, based on academic performance and enrollment in the experiential program. METHODS A cross-sectional study design utilizing questionnaires measuring prev...

Definitions of pharmacy residencies and fellowships.

Pharmacy residencies (originally termed “internships”) began in the early 1930s, primarily for the purpose of training pharmacists for the management of pharmacy services in hospitals. The first nonacademic residency program is believed to have been conducted by Harvey A. K. Whitney at the University of Michigan Hospital. Approximately 10 years later, the first residency program combined with f...

Mandatory pharmacy residencies: One way to reduce medication errors.

An Investigation of Factors that Influence Resource Allocation Decisions

We investigate how people allocate a limited set of resources between multiple risky prospects. We found that only a small percentage of decisions followed some form of naive diversification or mean-variance optimization. In general, people were less mean-variance optimal than a naive 1/N heuristic. Aspects of choice sets, such as domain, skew, and second order stochastic dominance, affected re...