BACKGROUND To describe and contrast programmatic offering of Clinical Epidemiology Masters programmes in Africa, to evaluate experiences of graduates and faculty, and assess if graduates are playing roles in research, practice and teaching of Clinical Epidemiology. METHODS We searched and identified relevant programmes, reviewed programmatic documentation, interviewed convenors and surveyed g...

OBJECTIVE To examine the possible effects of discrimination by sex and race on the career patterns of doctors up to six years after qualifying. DESIGN Postal questionnaire follow up survey. PARTICIPANTS 1572 Doctors who graduated from five British medical schools in 1981, 1983, and 1985, including 587 women and 131 doctors from ethnic minorities. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Reported success rat...

OBJECTIVE To determine the perceptions of pharmacy interns and newly registered pharmacists and preceptors regarding the preparedness of graduates to enter professional practice. METHODS A questionnaire was developed from the New Zealand Competence Standards for the Pharmacy Profession (pharmacist level), with additional questions on communication skills included. The instrument contained 16 ...

BACKGROUND The objectives of this study were to characterize the satisfaction of Pediatric Infectious Diseases fellows with their training and to understand how opinions about training have changed over time. METHODS Anonymous survey studies were conducted with questions designed to include areas related to the 6 ACGME core competencies. Surveys for current fellows were distributed by fellows...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study is to assess whether recent graduates of the Ohio State University's Occupational Therapy division are applying information-seeking skills they learned as undergraduates, and to seek their advice on ways to improve information-literacy instruction for current and future occupational therapy students. METHOD A survey was sent to a sample of graduates from 1...

OBJECTIVES Since 1999 important widely publicized issues have affected morale in UK cardiothoracic (CT) surgery. Because more surgeons are needed, we sought to investigate whether these events have affected recruitment and demographic change in the specialty between 1999 and 2014. METHODS We collected information on UK consultant CT surgeons using the SCTS public portal, the GMC Specialist Re...

the main purpose of this study is to find out the factors affecting entrepreneurship strengthening tendencies in student of iran’s agricultural scientific-applied higher education centers. the research is an applied type in which descriptive method has been employed. the tool for data collection was questionnaire the reliability of which was 85%. population of the research consisted of 1954 gra...