UPMC Digest provides a snapshot of activities within the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition’s seven Centers of Excellence. A New England Journal of Medicine study by Robert Schoen, MD, MPH, and colleagues clarifies the role of CRC screening. True translational research, as published by Vijay P. Singh, MD, in Science Translational Medicine, demonstrates the role of lipids in...

These Working papers collect the work of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Insubria. The publication of work by other Authors can be proposed by a member of the Faculty, provided that the paper has been presented in public. The name of the proposer is reported in a footnote. The views expressed in the Working papers reflect the opinions of the Authors only, and not necessarily the o...

“The results of this study suggest that the use of an objective instrument to measure oral appliance compliance during treatment of obstructive sleep apnea is feasible and, therefore, should be implemented in future studies dealing with oral appliance therapy for obstructive sleep apnea,” said principal investigator and lead author Olivier M. Vanderveken, MD, PhD, a staff-member consultant ENT,...

Lifelong employment commitments are a relatively uncommon employment contract. We …nd that three factors can explain their existence in academia – (i) non-contractibility of output, (ii) discipline-speci…c investment by a faculty member that enhances the chance of high output within the profession but that also signi…cantly diminishes the faculty member’s outside-occupation alternatives and (ii...

Recently, MIT professor and Nobel laureate Susumu Tonegawa has come under attack for allegedly opposing the recruitment of a female, prospective junior faculty member to MIT because her work would compete with that of his laboratory. While the accusations are still under internal investigation, this incident raises the important issue of how we scientists as a group succeed or fail as mentors f...

IRANIAN PATIENT RIGHT CHARTER FROM THE MEDICAL INFORMATION SCIENCE PERSPECTIVE: A QUALITATIVE STUDY Soraya Samadi, Vahideh Zarea Gavgani. Faculty member and head Department of Library and Information Science, Institute of Nabi Akram(SW), Tabriz, Iran; Associate Professor of Medical Library & Information Science, Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Management; Department of Medical Library & ...

All full-time (> 0.5 FTE) faculty members at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, including clinicians and basic scientists, are required to sign a University Physicians, Inc. (UPI) Member Practice Agreement (MPA). Signing the MPA is required by the Board of Regents as a condition of employment. The MPA specifies the types of consulting income, honoraria and other fees collecte...

background and purpose:: although it will be one of the most critical duties and skills of a general practitioner to manage outpatients in his office or at ambulatory care centers, our present medical education is based upon ward-based teaching and ambulatory care, as one important part of medical education, has been overlooked. we evaluate attitudes of faculty members of zahedan university of ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate and compare radiation exposure and intervention time during lumbar epidural steroid injection (ESI) 1) under different practitioners and methods with continuous fluoroscopic monitoring, and 2) under one practitioner with different methods and monitoring. MATERIALS AND METHODS We consecutively recruited 804 patients who underwent lumbar ESI and 759 patients who underwent ...

Prior to the third generation of distance education that is described as telelearning (Taylor 1995) or teleconferencing (Moore and Kearsley 1996), there were few questions about the ownership of a faculty member’s intellectual property. It was extremely rare for an institution to claim ownership of a professor’s class materials whether lecture notes, flip charts, overhead transparencies, audio ...