BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The near universality of otitis media with effusion (OME) in children makes a comparative review of treatment modalities important. This study’s objective was to compare the effectiveness of surgical strategies currently used for managing OME. METHODS: We identified 3 recent systematic reviews and searched 4 major electronic databases. Eligible studies included randomi...

The growing number of PhD students has spurred debates about the societal relevance of PhD training trajectories. The academic labour market does not provide enough jobs and many PhD graduates will have a career outside academia. It has been questioned whether current PhD training trajectories are still adequate and collaborative research projects are introduced as alternative trajectories. Suc...

Kelly A. Hunt, MPP Ellen J. Weber, MD Jonathan A. Showstack, PhD, MPH David C. Colby, PhD Michael L. Callaham, MD From Research & Evaluation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ (Hunt, Colby); and the Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine (Weber, Callaham), Institute for Health Policy Studies and Department of Medicine (Showstack), University of California, San Franci...

Introduction: Many PhD students will continue their academic career as university lecturers; therefore they should be familiar with presentation skills. Most universities around the world offer postgraduate pedagogic courses in their PhD curriculums, while such courses are not included in most Iranian PhD programs. Thus at the Education Development Office of Mashhad Medical School, we offered t...

Introduction Most of cross country studies on research productivity differences do not take into account compositional differences in academic staff force, such as sex, years of experience, origin of PhD studies, even though there are well documented evidence that (a) males tend to publish more than females (Gupta et al., 1999); (b) junior academic staff tend to publish more and in better outle...