This study assessed the effectiveness of education reforms on student-reported learning outcomes at the end of the 5-year medical school (M5) and 1-year internship (HO) in 2006, 2007 and 2008. A self-administered anonymous survey with 17 learning outcomes assessed, derived from Harden's Three-Circle Outcomes Model for outcomes-based education, was administered to 683 students at the end of medi...

This study investigates the influence of internship experience, grade-point average (GPA), and job market on the starting salaries of management information systems (MIS) graduates. The seven-year period of the study includes the strong job market of the Internet boom, as well as the weak job market following the Internet bust. The regression results indicate that several factors are significan...

The authors examined applicants’ perceptions of internship site types by specialty affiliation (clinical and counseling psychology). Multidimensional scaling analyses suggest that clinical psychology students focus their attention on internship site prestige, future job opportunities, opportunities for research, degree of client psychopathology and physical illness, and their overall comfort in...

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of a year-long internship on undergraduate psychology students’ ethical sensitivity and reasoning using a repeated-measures design. Students’ ethical sensitivity was measured by the Quick Racial and Ethical Sensitivity Test and ethical reasoning was measured by the Defining Issues Test -2. Based on the analysis, the internship experience had a ...

OBJECTIVE The high degree of heterogeneity in the development of depression under stress is unaccounted for in traditional statistical modeling. We employ growth mixture modeling to identify classes of individuals at highest risk of depression under stress. METHOD Medical internship was used as a prospective stress model. Interns from US residency programs completed demographic, psychological...

On the one hand, classical analysis of geometric algorithms is done in the worst case. The worst case is often very pessimistic and need to designed carefully pathological data set to be reached. On the other hand, analysis of geometric algorithms can also be done under probabilistic hypotheses on the data distribution. Unfortunately, common hypotheses, such as Poisson distribution or uniform d...

The Robot Soccer World Cup (RoboCup) Federation is an international organization which focuses on the promotion of robotics and Artificial Intelligence research, by offering a publicly appealing challenge: build robots that play soccer. The teams: Tech United and CAMBADA compete in the Middle-Sized League (MSL) among other leagues. In the MSL robots of no more than 50 cm in diameter and 80 cm i...

Spirito et al. (this issue) provide a blueprint for discussion regarding the programmatic as well as competencybased skills necessary for psychologists to be recognized as pediatric psychologists. The purpose of the internship year is to complete training in the general practice of clinical psychology and to extend specialty preparation in didactic instruction, research, and clinical practice i...

To better understand the graduate student viewpoint on quality of preparation provided by graduate programs in terms of the internship application process, the current study surveyed students enrolled in member programs of the Council of University Directors of Clinical Psychology (CUDCP). Six hundred seventy-four students completed a questionnaire designed to assess perceptions regarding prepa...

Objective: The study examined the clinical performance differences of novices before and after a critical care internship and compare their performance attributes to a reference group comprised of experienced critical care nurses. The extant research regarding clinical internship programs has focused on retention in practice, workforce issues and competence. While studies have shown a pattern o...