background and purpose: today, according to busy doctors, one of the ways to keep their medical information up to date is the use of evidence-based medicine (ebm). the purpose of this study was to determine the educational needs of ebm in clinical faculty members working in shahid beheshti university hospitals in tehran and the prioritization of these needs . methods: the study was descriptive,...

As a faculty member who is teaching students in the main hospital of coronavirus - Tohid Sanandaj, Iran. I want to share my experiences confronting chest CT COVID-19 patients. What we saw these patients was different percentage lung involvement blood groups. The with group O noticeably higher than other Unfortunately, high outpatients were old and unaware their group, therefore cannot claim tha...

W omen are underrepresented in the new field of nanoscience and nanotechnology (NS/NT). They comprise only 14% of the faculty members at the 62 federally funded centers for NS/NT at higher education institutions in the USA, but make up 25% of the faculty in other STEM disciplines (1). Increasing the participation of women and minorities in NS/NT research is important for the relatively new fiel...

BACKGROUND Medical education increasingly relies on small-group learning. Small group learning provides more active learning, better retention, higher satisfaction, and facilitates development of problem-solving and team-working abilities. However, less is known about student experience and preference for different small groups teaching models. We evaluated group educational dynamics and group ...

As a part of the 2000-01 American Dental Education Association (ADEA) Leadership Institute, the Leadership Institute Fellows conducted a faculty development workshop for department chairpersons and program directors during the 2001 ADEA Annual Session. A central premise of the workshop was that successful chairpersons and program directors are both effective leaders and effective managers and t...

BACKGROUND Faculty turnover threatens the research, teaching and clinical missions of medical schools. We measured early attrition among newly-hired medical school faculty and identified personal and institutional factors associated with early attrition. METHODS This retrospective cohort study identified faculty hired during the 2005-2006 academic year at one school. Three-year attrition rate...

I received my B.A. degree in mathematics and physical education form Drury College in 1961 and my M.S. degree in physical education from Florida State University in December 1962. I took a temporary faculty position at Valparaiso University in 1963 while a faculty member was on a leave of absence. My teaching assignment was physical activity classes (e.g., team sports and swimming). In 1964 I j...