Acknowledgements. The author wishes to thank the scientific suggestions and dedicated work of the following researchers: Dr. Ramón Fontanillas (Lucta SA), Dr. David Torrallardona (IRTA), Prof. Eric van Heughten (North Carolina State University), Prof. Kirk Klasing and Dr. Brook Humphrey (University of California).

Cultural training can be a difficult topic to address during the internship year and can be defined or approached in many different ways. This article describes a program designed to provide cultural training focused on increasing cultural awareness for psychology interns. The training program outlined is based in part on anthropological research methods and teaches interns a method for learnin...

The year 2000 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the National Research Service Award (NRSA) training programs and their implementation. Established by the National Research Service Award Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-348), these programs were conceived as setting a new direction in federally sponsored research training (National Institutes of Health Task Forces for the Review of NIH Biomedical Resea...

background: to achieve development goals in a country, having a research plan is necessary. need assessment in health is the first stage of research priority aiming improves health condition in a population. the objective of this study was to determine a list of research projects according to the health problems priority in ramadan province, iran. methods: to determine research priorities in th...