BACKGROUND U.S. military personnel face challenging situations including frequent deployments, family separations, and exposure to war. Identifying coping strategies used by the most resilient service members and veterans could positively influence military resiliency training programs. OBJECTIVE The purposes of this paper are to investigate the relationship between coping and resilience amon...

The PhD degree was established in Berlin 200 years ago and has since spread across the whole world. While there is general agreement that the degree is awarded in recognition of successfully completed research training, there have been significant differences in the way doctoral training programs have developed in particular countries. There is, however, a clear global tendency to follow the pr...

BACKGROUND The human cadaver remains the gold standard for anatomic training and is highly useful when incorporated into minimally invasive surgical training programs. However, this valuable resource is often not used to its full potential due to a lack of multidisciplinary cooperation. Herein, we propose the coordinated multiple use of individual cadavers to better utilize anatomical resources...

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This project to help new nurse recruits integrate into the hospital work environment had two components: the development of a new web-based orientation tool in French for new recruits and mentor training for more experienced nurses. The aim of the first component was to redesign delivery of the nursing orientation program by assessing individual needs of new recruits and developing "just in tim...

OBJECTIVE To determine the attitude toward and the state of research within the field of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery. DESIGN A questionnaire was sent to the chairpersons of departments of otolaryngology where residency training is provided. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING Program directors of academic otolaryngology training programs. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Responses to questionnaire. R...

The historical assumptions that have influenced internships in professional psychology need to be reconsidered to articulate what actually happens in current training programs and what the graduate students gain. Beginning with the historical and intellectual context, the authors discuss internship models and pedagogies along with competencies and the cultures of programs. The differing emphase...

(a) The purpose of this study was to determine whether novice drivers that were trained to anticipate hazards did so better than novice drivers who were not so trained immediately after training and up to one year after training occurred. (b) Novice drivers who had held their restricted license for about one month were randomly assigned to a PC-based hazard anticipation training program (RAPT) ...

Recruiting newly graduating Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) is expensive. Recruitment into rural areas is especially challenging. We analyzed the first jobs of all 95 graduates of the University of Iowa's CRNA training program, from the initial graduating class of 1997 through the class of 2009. We compared the location of the student's first job to where the student lived at th...