The allure of the IS major depends on the successful placements of recent IS graduates in rewarding careers. The rise of the data science field provides an opportunity to rebrand and rebuild IS departments using the careerplacement successes of IS graduates as a springboard. This paper describes a framework that IS departments can use to coordinate between the employer demand side and the gradu...

In the UK, the attainment of White graduates (as measured by the class of honours that they have been awarded) tends to be higher than that of graduates from other ethnic groups. This is apparent, in particular, in graduates who have taken courses by distance learning with the Open University. Analysis of data from Open University graduates over three successive years yielded no evidence that t...

UNLABELLED The National Postbaccalaureate Collaborative (NPBC) is a partnership of Postbaccalaureate Programs (PBPs) dedicated to helping promising college graduates from disadvantaged and underrepresented backgrounds get into and succeed in medical school. This study aims to determine long-term program outcomes by looking at PBP graduates, who are now practicing physicians, in terms of health ...

my interest in the department of medical education started in the year 1955 when about 900 high school graduates in shiraz, participated in the “konkoor”, an iranian university entrance exam. of these 900 graduates, 42 passed and gained admissions into shiraz university medical school and six years later, 32 graduated and received a medical degree from shiraz university medical school. i was on...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether completing a year of the Rural Clinical School of Western Australia (RCSWA) program is associated with entering the rural medical workforce. DESIGN AND SETTING Cohort study of graduates from the University of Western Australia who completed Year 5 of medical school between 2002 and 2009, comparing work location (identified from the Australian Health Practitioner...

background: medical graduates should acquire the necessary skills to provide desirable health services. so it is necessary for medical schools to evaluate their students according expected competencies. the aim of present study was to investigate the viewpoints of medical graduates toward their achievement to these expected capabilities. methods: this research was a cross sectional study carrie...

The purpose of this study was to explore the University of Malaya (UM) dental graduates' competence in holistic care in real settings from the employers' and graduates' perspectives. A self-administered questionnaire consisting of ten domains was sent to thirty senior dental officers of the Ministry of Health (MOH) and 164 UM graduates. In this article, nineteen major competencies that best rep...

BACKGROUND In the UK and many other countries, many specialties have had longstanding problems with recruitment and have increasingly relied on international medical graduates to fill junior and senior posts. We aimed to determine what specialties were the most popular and desirable among candidates for training posts, and whether this differed by country of undergraduate training. METHODS We...

This study analyzed the concept of cooperative education as it relates to preparing students for the workplace. Community college graduates from an engineering/technical graphics program that utilized cooperative education in its curriculum were compared with graduates from another engineering/technical graphics program that was comparable except that it was not involved with cooperative educat...

PURPOSE During the last 15 years, the proportion of U.S. allopathic medical graduates planning to pursue alternative careers (other than full-time clinical practice) has been increasing. The authors sought to identify factors associated with contemporary medical graduates' career-setting plans. METHOD The authors obtained anonymous data from the 108,408 U.S. allopathic medical graduates who c...