OBJECTIVE To describe outcomes of a third-year residency (PGY-3) program in family medicine/emergency medicine in terms of its graduates' practice characteristics and their self-assessed preparedness for practising emergency medicine. DESIGN A questionnaire was sent to graduates of Queen's University's family medicine residency programs. SETTING Recent graduates' practices. PARTICIPANTS A...

BACKGROUND Monitoring graduates' views of their learning experiences is important to ensure programme standards and further improvement. This study evaluated graduates' satisfaction with and attitudes towards a Master programme in Dental Public Health. METHODS An online questionnaire was sent to individuals who completed successfully the Master of Science programme in Dental Public Health at ...

A key focus of concern in relation to the future shape of the nursing workforce internationally and nationally has been the perceived high attrition rate of graduates. This concern has been accompanied by a plethora of literature on graduate transition to practice. Many of the studies have been carried out from the perspective of the employing organisation and look at graduates turnover intent ...

This qualitative case study addressed recent graduates’ perception of the efficacy of simulation in registered nursing education. Finding clinical placement is one of the greatest challenges faced by schools of nursing. One possible solution is to use high-fidelity simulation manikins to substitute for clinical experience. The research that exists regarding nursing simulation laboratory experie...

The goals of this study were to: (1) define the publication productivity of early-career orthopedic trauma surgeons over time; (2) compare the early-career publication productivity of recent orthopedic trauma fellowship graduates vs their more senior colleagues; and (3) determine the proportion of fellowship graduates who meet the Orthopaedic Trauma Association (OTA) publication criteria for ac...

Full employment is an important objective for the nation’s economy. Unfortunately, the impacts of active short-term labour market policies implemented by the Malaysian government that focus directly on the employment appear to be limited. Therefore, this study intend to find the gap of the employed electronic engineers meeting the demands required competencies of the electronic industry and the...

This paper investigates the effect of the reduction in the young cohort size caused by Chinese family planning policies on the educational upgrading among older cohorts born before the policies. I suggest that family planning polices reduce the size of the young cohorts and increase their educational levels. Through imperfect substitutability of workers with same education but different ages, t...

This paper tests whether the impact of human capital externality differs by race, ethnicity and educational attainment. While extant studies have examined the existence of human capital externality on wages, studies have yet to explore whether the spillover benefits from college graduates are equally distributed across different groups of city residents. Using the PSID from 1980 to 2013, we fin...

This is the 27th report prepared by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) on the percentage of each US medical school's graduates entering family medicine residency programs. Approximately 8.3% of the 16,300 graduates of US medical schools between July 2006 and June 2007 were first-year family medicine residents in 2007, compared with 8.5% in 2006 and 8.4% in 2005. Medical school gra...