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The author describes the relationship between self-knowledge and career confusion among university students and discusses strategies to enhance career and academic planning. The multiple intelligences profiles of typical university students are compared with those of 82 students enrolled in 3 sequential semesters of a Career Exploration course at a large midwestern U.S. university. Low Intraper...

An increasing number of countries are exploring the introduction or expansion of autonomous hospitals as one of the numerous health reforms they are introducing to their health system. Hospital autonomy is one of the forms of decentralization that is focused on a specific institution rather than on a political unit. It has gained much interest because it is an attempt to amalgamate the best ele...

PURPOSE Instruments that rate teaching effectiveness provide both positive and negative feedback to clinician-educators, helping them improve their teaching. The authors developed the Clinical Teaching Effectiveness Instrument, which was theory-based and generic across their entire academic medical center, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation. They tested it for reliability, validity, and usability....

a Endocrinology and Metabolism Laboratory, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Mexico b Medical School, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Mexico c Cellular Biology and Physiology Department, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico d Department of Environmental Toxicology Laboratory, Medical School, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico ...

Currently: Associate Professor at Chalmers/GU (substitute, until 2007-06-01). 050110-060110: Substitute in mathematics at Sigrid Rudebecks gymnasium (an independent school in Gbg). 020901-050110: Teaching students at Chalmers/GU (Guest teacher, i.e. not a permanent appointment) in different courses in mathematics. 990701-020901: PhD-student at Växjö University (VXU). 95-990701: Under graduate a...

A programme of repeated personal reminders substantially reduced the delay in producing final histological reports for necropsy cases. The proportion delayed for over four weeks was reduced from 69.7% to 46.7%, and the proportion delayed for over 10 weeks was reduced from 38.6% to 11.7%. This improvement may contribute to halting and reversing the now established trend in the decline of necrops...

Benjamin H. Rotstein,†,‡ Serge Zaretsky,† Vishal Rai,†,§ and Andrei K. Yudin*,† †Davenport Research Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 3H6 ‡Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, Massachusetts 021...

[*] Prof. R. S. Ruoff, Dr. S. Park, J. W. Suk, Dr. J. An, Dr. R. D. Piner Dr. W. Cai Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Texas Materials Institute The University of Texas at Austin One University Station C2200, Austin TX, 78712 (USA) E-mail: [email protected] Prof. V. Berry, N. Mohanty, A. Nagaraja Department of Chemical Engineering The Kansas State University Manhattan KS, 66506...