BACKGROUND The proportion of females enrolling into medical schools has been growing steadily. However, the representation of female residents among individual specialties has shown considerable variation. The purpose of this study was to compare the trends of gender representation in Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (OTL-HNS) residency programs with other specialty training programs in C...

BACKGROUND A web-based inventory was developed as a voluntary registry of Canadian pregnancy and birth cohort studies, with the objective to foster collaboration and sharing of research tools among cohort study groups as a means to enrich research in maternal and child health across Canada. DESCRIPTION Information on existing birth cohort studies conducted in Canada exclusively or as part of ...

1 Center for Visual Information Te hnology, IIIT Hyderabad, India. 2 THOTH team, Inria Grenoble Rhone-Alpes, Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann, CNRS, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Fran e. *Corresponding author Email: anand.mishra resear h.iiit.a .in Phone: +91-40-6653 1000 Fax: +91-40-6653 1413 Figure 1 A typi al street s ene image taken from Google Street View. It ontains very prominent sign boards with text...

Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Inst of Child Health & Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Dept of Health & Human Services, Bethesda, MD; Congenital Malformations Registry, New York State Dept of Health, Troy & Dept of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Univ at Albany School of Public Health, Rensselaer; Wadsworth Center, New York State Dept of Health, Albany, NY; Dept of Ped...

Abstract
 Due to COVID-19, almost all educational institutions were temporarily closed across the globe. As a result, many educators have focused on delivering courses through emergency remote teaching. Preparation for teaching was itself great challenge. In this reflective paper, I presented my own experience of preparation one in Canadian universities. mentioned paper factors that helpfu...

Faculty members are crucial partners in promoting academic integrity at Canadian universities, but their needs related to neither well documented nor understood. To address this gap, we developed a mixed methods survey gather faculty perceptions of facilitators and barriers using the existing procedures, policies, resources, supports required promote integrity. In article, report data collected...

In this article, a number of difficulties faced in research, teaching and learning by engineeringinstructors, researchers, students administrative staff the universities Canada during COVID-19 pandemic are discussed. A few solutions, such as use sample online assessment tool, that might aid better delivery engineering courses provided. The effectiveness solutions devised for short-term their ap...

Background. Open access (OA) publishing via article processing charges (APCs) is growing as an alternative to subscription publishing. The Pay It Forward (PIF) Project is exploring the feasibility of transitioning from paying subscriptions to funding APCs for faculty at research intensive universities. Estimating of the cost of APCs for the journals authors at research intensive universities te...