OBJECTIVES Differential attainment in school examinations is one of the barriers to increasing student diversity in medicine. However, studies on the predictive validity of prior academic achievement and educational performance at medical school are contradictory, possibly due to single-site studies or studies which focus only on early years' performance. To address these gaps, we examined the ...

BadRank is a method for detecting spam web sites, based on the premise that a page is spam if it points to another spam page; i.e., the BadRank score of a page is the weighted sum of the BadRank scores of the pages that it links to. BadRank is an important tool in spam detection. We consider the mathematical structure of BadRank, showing how it can be modified to guarantee that the iterates con...

OBJECTIVE To determine which factors affect alcohol counselling practices among medical students. DESIGN Cohort study. SETTING Nationally representative medical schools (n=16) in the United States. PARTICIPANTS Medical students who graduated in 2003. INTERVENTIONS Questionnaires were completed (response rate 83%) at the start of students' first year (n=1846/2080), entrance to wards (typ...

INTRODUCTION James Cook University's School of Medicine enrolled its first cohort of 64 students in 2000. The School was established with the aim of increasing the number of medical graduates who understand rural, remote, Indigenous and tropical health issues and who would subsequently choose rural (non-metropolitan) practice. In December 2005, 58 students graduated the course. Several students...

Based on directed normal junior college students of Guangxi K College, who have graduated from high schools, this paper analyzes the characteristics majoring in all subjects rural primary and puts forward three dilemmas ideological political education under background widespread use Internet, namely, is still mainly conducted by teachers, “Internet Plus” system needs to be innovated, vocational...