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In this paper, we present the findings of a thematic analysis on how alumni make sense of design in light of their undergraduate experiences in the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program. These findings are part of a larger embedded, sequential mixed-methods study on the overall alumni experience in EPICS and how this experience prepared them to enter the workplace. In this l...

BACKGROUND As highlighted in recent reports published by the Physician-Scientist Workforce Working Group at the National Institutes of Health, the percentage of physicians conducting research has declined over the past decade. Various programs have been put in place to support and develop current medical student interest in research to alleviate this shortage, including The Vanderbilt Universit...

Background and Objectives: To identify the effects of global health electives over a decade in a pediatric residency program. Methods: This was an anonymous email survey of the Boston Combined Residency alumni funded for global health electives from 2002 to 2011. A test for trend in binomial proportions and logistic regression were used to document associations between elective and participant ...

BACKGROUND Although medical programmes are often thoroughly evaluated, these evaluations more seldom include workplace points of view. The present study focuses on how well a Swedish medical programme was judged to prepare students for work as a physician. METHODS Thirty-two competences in physicians' work were identified through interviews. A subsequent questionnaire was completed by 123 pro...

The Dalla Lana School of Public Health uses an "add-on" or concentration model of global health education. Records of masters' graduate cohorts across five disciplinary fields from 2006 to 2009 were classified as to prior experience at application and completion of global health concentration requirements. Alumni from the first two cohorts (2006-08 and 2007-09) were interviewed using a semi-str...