BACKGROUND Pediatric hospital medicine has become a viable long-term career choice. To retain qualified physicians, both academic and community hospital leaders seek to improve their job satisfaction. OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to determine whether practice in a community versus academic setting is associated with pediatric hospitalists' career satisfaction. METHODS The study was ...

In this paper, we use the term academic text to refer to any free text composed in an academic setting, covering the whole spectrum from first year students’ reviews of available scientific texts up to a scientist’s struggling, but still fragile text concerning his or her new discoveries. These academic texts can be processed by various information technologies. We can now outline the landscape...

Various predictive research designs have been used to discover the relationship between learners' aca- demic achievement and the degree of teacher-student interactions they receive individually or in a group and the mediating role of their academic interest in learning. How these relation- ships/correlations work in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) setting, however, has remained a r...

introduction. considering rights of patients and presence of a need for a standard clinical skills learning setting in recent 3 decades, it seems necessary to encourage decision – makers of medical education to establish clinical skills laboratory, in order to minimize unnecessary practices and possible injuries and reduce stress over students. cls in tums was established in 2001. in planning p...

Agile software development is a widely used and successful methodology for organizing and managing software product development in an industry setting. For academic research projects in Computer Science, the development of software is often a major component and the use of agile methods may be appropriate. The fundamental difference in how software engineering is performed in an academic resear...

This study reports on the findings of a genre teaching course for developing academic writing of a class of EFL students in Iran. The information report genre was taught in a cyclical way of teaching and learning, which was started from ‘setting the context’ and ‘deconstruction’ of prototype information report genre, and continued with ‘joint construction’, ‘independent construction’, and final...