Purpose: This study was conducted to assess the effect of oncology nursing internship education on attitudes students (stigma) toward cancer patients. The in a faculty İzmir, Turkey.
 Methods: quasi-experimental pre-test post-test design used this study. sample composed totally 84 students, who attended course Oncology Nursing Internship (n:43) and Gynaecology Obstetrics (n:41). Student In...

The purpose of this study was to identify perceptions about a school counseling internship program at a university in Adana, Turkey by determining counseling interns’ perspectives on the effects of the internship program and supervisors’ perspectives on interns’ professional development. Data were collected from nine school counseling supervisors, 11 school counseling interns, 11 guidance teach...

Applying a modified-Delphi technique, this research study sought consensus from business education mentor teachers regarding the top three areas in which business education student teachers were prepared as well as underprepared for their roles as teachers. Further, the mentor teachers provided recommendations for business education teacher preparation programs to implement to better prepare th...

CONTEXT Little is known about the incorporation of integrative medicine (IM) and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) into family medicine residency programs. OBJECTIVE The Society for Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) approved a set of CAM/IM competencies for family medicine residencies. We hope to evaluate whether residency programs are implementing such competencies into their cur...

High rates of nonmedical exemptions (NMEs) from required childhood vaccinations have contributed to outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, such as measles and pertussis. Understanding the parental decision to obtain an NME could help health professionals and public health programs improve vaccination rates in areas with high vaccine refusal. Using a 2002-2003 multi-state survey of parents o...

To determine whether physicians with harm avoidance (HA) personality traits were more prone to developing increased anxiety and depression during the medical internship. A prospective longitudinal study of 74 medical interns was carried out using repeated measures of symptoms of anxiety and depression with the Beck Anxiety and Depression Inventories (BAI and BDI) before, at the 3rd, 6th, and 12...

This report refers to work completed during my internship with the Mechatronics Research Group at the department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Melbourne, Australia from September 5th, 2003 until March 5th, 2004. Recognition of three-dimensional objects in two-dimensional images is a key area of research in computer vision. One approach is to save multiple 2D v...

A study on six plots of corn was conducted on the St. Andrews School farm near Townsend, DE to compare the runoff water quality characteristics between pelletized broiler litter (PBL) and conventional fertilizers, in this case urea. The objective of this comparison was to see whether or not PBL is a suitable replacement for conventional fertilizer. Within the six corn plots, three of the plots ...