The NRC Postdoctorate Fellowships, 1948-1978

Sports fellowships.

Several factors should go into selecting a sports medicine fellowship. These include clinical factors, research factors and team coverage experience, among others. The most important issue when selecting a sports medicine fellowship is to identify individual goals. Without accurately identifying one’s goals, it is impossible to select the right fellowship. Sports medicine fellowships vary great...

The Heinz fellowships 1960-80.

This paper celebrates a 25th birthday, a record of learning and teaching across the Commonwealth. It began in 1959, when Philip Evans (secretary, British Paediatric Association 1954-59) and Reginald Lightwood (Head of University Department of Paediatrics, St Mary's Medical School, London), convinced that paediatric teaching exchanges would improve child health within the Commonwealth, sought th...

Fellowships, Grants, & Awards

Background: Co-morbidity is a powerful predictor of health care outcomes and costs, as well as an important cofounder in epidemiologic studies. The effect of co-morbidities is generally related to mortality or complications. This study evaluated the association between co-morbidity and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients awaiting total joint replacement. Methods: A total of 893 p...

Fellowships, Grants, & Awards

Vaccinia virus DNA polymerase catalyzes duplex-byduplex DNA joining reactions in vitro and many features of these recombination reactions are reprised in vivo. This can explain the intimate linkage between virus replication and genetic recombination. However, it is unclear why these apparently ordinary polymerases exhibit this unusual catalytic capacity. In this study, we have used different su...

Fellowships, Grants, & Awards