Women in Academic General Surgery

the relationship between academic self-concept and academic achievement in english and general subjects of the students of high school

according to research, academic self-concept and academic achievement are mutually interdependent. in the present study, the aim was to determine the relationship between the academic self-concept and the academic achievement of students in english as a foreign language and general subjects. the participants were 320 students studying in 4th grade of high school in three cities of noor, nowshah...

Mentorship program designed to advance women in academic surgery.

see her career unfolding in front of her. “I know the kind of future leader I will become because of Mary McCarthy, and I will be that leader because I am being groomed to do that,” said Dr. Tchorz, associate professor at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine in Dayton, OH. Mary C. McCarthy, MD, FACS, a professor of surgery at Wright State, is Dr. Tchorz’ mentor through the Early...

Women physicians in academic medicine.

A BSTRACT Background I conducted a study to determine whether women who graduate from medical schools are more or less likely than their male counterparts to pursue full-time careers in academic medicine and to advance to the senior ranks of medical school faculties. Methods The rates of advancement to the ranks of assistant, associate, and full professor for all U.S. medical school graduates f...

Surgical competence in general surgery assistance: a brief report

Evolution of academic surgery.

Sitting by the River Dordogne on 14 July, I could not do other than think about the storming of the Bastille, which heralded the start of the French Revolution 200 years ago. Accounts in the English language concentrate on the years of terror rather than on the desperate need for change; for France was, in the words of Dickens, rolling "with exceeding smoothness downhill."' Many believe that in...