Podcasting in medical education is becoming more widely used and may be a useful tool for communicating with applicants to medical school. Given recent trends in the popularity of podcasting and mobile media, we created a podcast to communicate more effectively with applicants to our medical school as well as with the broader premedical community. The purpose of this study was to characterize t...

BACKGROUND The use of emergency department (ED) services for non-urgent conditions is well-studied in many Western countries but much less so in the Middle East and Gulf region. While the consequences are universal-a drain on ED resources and poor patient outcomes-the causes and solutions are likely to be region and country specific. Unique social and economic circumstances also create gender-s...

BACKGROUND There is little empirical information on how general practitioner (GP) supervisors teach and the reasons for the variation in their teaching methods. Could the variation be due to differing motivations to teach? METHODS Supervisors from one regional training provider who attended educational workshops in 2013 were surveyed, seeking infor-mation on their motivation to become and rem...

Most young adults have had some casual sex experience. However, it is important to understand the motivations for such behavior because of potential health consequences. We investigate the motivations for and consequences of casual sex using a life course lens. We use the Toledo Adolescent Relationship Study to examine a diverse sample of young adults with recent casual sex experiences (N=210)....

Utilizing information systems is very useful in the current era. Digitizing administration Village beneficial service process to public. This seen as a change that can make it easier or more difficult for people of Sanrobone take care at village office. study aims analyze public opinion regarding use e-government, predict and modeling topics related e-government. research applies text mining al...

Recent protest movements brought attention to the one percent, a segment of the population that is critical to understanding inequality and social mobility but that attracts relatively little research attention. In this article, I survey current research on the one percent in the United States. I distinguish income from wealth and show that both are very concentrated but that the concentration ...

This study extends work on player types as motivations for video game play in two primary ways. First, it draws from the presence literature and considers how a person’s “need for presence” relates to established player types. Second, it expands the predictive utility of player type research and explores how motivations for play relate to game use across multiple genres and platforms, including...