Sunset as Oversight: Establishing Realistic Objectives

Create realistic objectives.

The first step in planning orthodontic therapy is to establish treatment objectives. It is impossible to achieve the correct end result if the appropriate goals or objectives have not been identified before treatment. In adolescent patients with complete dentitions, orthodontic treatment objectives tend to be idealistic. After all, if a young patient has an intact dentition without restorations...

Establishing procedures for institutional oversight of stem cell research.

Academic health centers (AHCs), which are at the forefront of stem cell research, need to establish institutional stem cell research oversight committees (SCROs) to comply with 2005 National Academy of Sciences (NAS) recommendations and to establish public trust in this sensitive research. Institutional review boards (IRBs) typically lack the expertise and time to adequately review the specific...

Establishing common course objectives for undergraduate exercise physiology.

Undergraduate exercise physiology is a ubiquitous course in undergraduate kinesiology/exercise science programs with a broad scope and depth of topics. It is valuable to explore what is taught within this course. The purpose of the present study was to facilitate an understanding of what instructors teach in undergraduate exercise physiology, how it compares with various guidelines, and to cont...

Corporate strategic objectives for establishing relationships with university research centers

Organizations face increased pressures to continually advance knowledge and new technologies for their long-term success and prosperity. University research centers offer important interorganizational linkages for industry–university collaboration, conducive for advancing knowledge and new technologies. This study examined industry’s strategic objectives for establishing relationships with univ...

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