sues to drug solutions is seen to be dependent upon many biological factors : upon electric potential, conditions of solubility and ionisation and the like. In brief, modern pharmacology of to-day has become an exact and exacting science, calling alike upon the biologist, the expert chemist, the physiologist, and the pharmacist to assist in building up a new science of therapy, dependent upon a...

Medical educators and public health experts have been calling on medical schools to enhance their teaching of population-based medicine for the greater part of the past decade. In June 1998, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) emphasized the importance of integrating a population health perspective within medical school curricula with its publication of Report II of the Medical ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES US medical school curricula continually undergo reform. The effect of formal curricular approaches (course organization and pedagogical techniques) on competence in medicine as measured by the United States Medical Licensing Examinations (USMLE) Step 1, 2, and 3 is not fully understood. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of formal curricular appro...

We consider the classic college admissions problem. Unlike Gale and Shapley (1962), we realistically assume that (i) students’ college application choices are nontrivial because applications are costly, and (ii) college rankings of students are noisy and thus uncertain at the time of application. We analyze a general equilibrium model where two ranked colleges set admissions standards for stude...

a most important phenomenon among organizational resources is creativity along with mobility of staff, while empowerment being the motivator of creativity and mobility. the purpose of this study was an analysis of management and organizational factors necessary for empowerment of iranian agricultural colleges faculty members. research methodology was a descriptive-survey one. the statistical po...