OBJECTIVE New medical graduates are the front-line staff in many hospital settings and manage patients with diabetes frequently. Prescribing is an area of concern for junior doctors, however, with insulin prescribing reported as a particular weakness. This study aimed to produce an educational intervention which aimed to improve preparedness to manage patients with diabetes and evaluate it usin...

Learning how to frame research is arguably the most important capacity for new researchers to develop. This is true both for doctoral students and for junior faculty as they establish research programs at new institutions and begin to help students conduct their own research. I take framing research to mean the construction of connections among research questions, the literature(s) within which...

BACKGROUND Consistent with osteopathic principles and practice, the nation's colleges of osteopathic medicine (COMs) have emphasized the significance of the musculoskeletal system to the practice of medicine. The authors hypothesized that graduating COM students would, therefore, demonstrate superior knowledge and competence in musculoskeletal medicine when compared with graduates of allopathic...

Undergraduate public health education at 4-year institutions, those with and without graduate public health education, has grown rapidly during the first decade of the 21st century since the IOM recommended that "all undergraduates have access to education in public health." Much of this growth has been guided by the Educated Citizen and Public Health initiative, a collaboration of arts and sci...

OBJECTIVE To assess the level of awareness regarding basic and practical knowledge of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and its importance in the eyes of medical/dental students and doctors. METHODS The cross-sectional study was conducted in medical and dental colleges as well as hospitals of Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan, from June to September 2011. Non-probability convenience sampling was...

Though various measures of mobility rate for colleges, e.g. bottom-to-top rate, status maintenance and middle-class have been introduced, they rarely reviewed together to see the whole picture intergenerational mobility, particularly in non-Western societies. This paper fills this gap characterises rates 17 different college tiers South Korea using Graduates Occupational Mobility Survey 37,552 ...

Deciding which field to study is one of the most consequential decisions college students make, but research on topic focuses attending 4-year colleges. To understand how community colleges make field-of-study decisions, I link administrative educational records recent high school graduates with local mass layoff and plant-closing announcements. find that declines in employment deter from enter...

"Ayurveda" is an ancient system of healthcare that is native to India. At present, in India, there are more than 240 colleges that offer a graduate-level degree (Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery-BAMS) in Ayurveda. Even though the Central Council of Indian Medicine, the governing body that monitors the matters related to Ayurveda education, has imposed various educational norms and reg...

Compromise process in choosing careers that is not line with the field of study widely happening only Malaysia, but throughout globe. This because reality career selection a very complicated challenge to be addressed especially by those who have just graduated. was conducted gaze at predictive factors influence community college graduates compromising aspects during job search processes. A tota...