Traditionally, family doctors who had an interest in academic scholarship had no choice but to work at academic teaching centres, where teaching went hand in hand with the scholarly aspects of an academic appointment. However, in the past several years medical education has expanded beyond the boundaries of the academic teaching centres into the surrounding communities. New community-based facu...

This is a story about a faculty faced with a disintegrating culture and lack of direction, which underwent adaptive change to become internationally competitive in veterinary education and research. It highlights the importance of establishing a sense of common purpose through an agreed culture, which can then be translated into action through shared leadership. Visionary leadership created a c...

Doctoral students and new faculty members often seek advice from more senior faculty on how to advance their program of research. Students may ask whether they should choose the manuscript option for their dissertation or whether they should seek a postdoctoral fellowship. New faculty members wonder whether they should pursue a career development award and whether they need a mentor as they str...

The death of a pet is a universal experience for those who share their lives with animals. In parallel with a rising interest in palliative medicine, hospice care and advance-care planning within human medicine, increasing attention is currently being given to serious illness and death within veterinary medicine. Our ability to prolong life has created the need for thoughtful end of life discou...

Emergency medicine training programs often require residents to participate in research activity. One goal of the Resident Forum was to discuss ways of improving this element of our training. We asked ourselves the following questions. What are the objectives for a graduating resident? The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada’s Standard for the Academic and Scholarly Aspects of th...

The primary requirement for attaining the senior rank of Associate Professor or Professor is the demonstration of substantive, creative and independent scholarship in academic endeavors (teaching, research, health care, academically related professional development activities, and mentorship). The discovery, transmission and application of new facts, insights and relationships, and their integr...

In recent years, scholarly publishing has been faced with many distractive phenomena. Generally, most researchers are unaware of fraudulent practices now common to scholarly publishing and are at risk of becoming a victim of them. Editors also need to have sufficient knowledge about these practices. There are papers that try to increase awareness of authors about fraud in scholarly publishing, ...

On the Web, hyperlinks have been used both to assess the impact of academic Web sites and to trace aspects of online informal scholarly communication. They are also used in Web information retrieval algorithms to identify important pages and to cluster pages by topic, both of which help in ranking search engine results. In this paper we investigate a type of link that is of particular interest ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to track the graduates of the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic (LACC) radiology residency program, review their scholarly productivity, and report those involved in teaching and leadership positions. METHODS Former LACC residents' career information was identified through publicly available electronic documents including Web sites and social media. P...