THE BEGINNING Contrasting the experience in other countries, the PA profession in India started as an experiment in a private, tertiary cardiovascular facility in Chennai, Tamil Nadu state. PAs who graduated from that program moved along with the cardiologists and surgeons who left the mother institute to start their own facilities. PA graduates had an edge over medical graduates in these cente...

OBJECTIVES For many years, the voice of patients has been understood as a critical element for the improvement of care quality in healthcare settings. How well medical graduates are prepared for clinical practice is an important question, but one that has rarely been considered from patient and public perspectives. We aimed to fill this gap by exploring patients and carers' experiences and expe...

N education in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) goes back to 1958 when the first formal education for nurses was initiated as a collaborative effort between the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the World Health Organization.1 For many years, the MoH conducted formal education for nurses at 2 levels: post intermediate school nursing institutes graduating diploma nurses after 3 years of studies and post...

At present, the employment situation of college graduates is grim, which has caused wide concerns in the whole society. How to improve the competitiveness of college graduates, to adapt to the employment environment, to help college graduates to smooth employment has become an urgent problem to be solved. According to the investigation of college graduates’ employment environment, the author an...

INTRODUCTION: The fundamental obligations of Colleges Education is to breed fleet teachers that are employed in primary and Junior Secondary levels impart knowledge, moral societal values for better change stability, hence the need institutions have regular feedbacks from adjoining societies so as developmental policies planning ascertain development. PURPOSE: study’s purpose was survey student...

BACKGROUND The transition from medical student to junior doctor in postgraduate training is a critical stage in career progression. We report junior doctors' views about the extent to which their medical school prepared them for their work in clinical practice. METHODS Postal questionnaires were used to survey the medical graduates of 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2005, from all UK medical schools, on...

Differences in Employment Outcomes for College Town Stayers and Leavers Areas surrounding colleges and universities are often able to build their local stock of human capital by retaining recent graduates in the area after they finish their education. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as “college towns” and investigates differences in employment outcomes between college graduates...

This paper examines the impact of college quality and academic major on the earnings of a nationally representative sample of baccalaureate recipients. We extend previous work in this area by analyzing the magnitude of change in the influence of these factors at two points in the early career of these graduates. Our results demonstrate that, despite significant variation, graduates from higher ...