leadership and management canons [2, 7−9]. Authorities within these domains suggest that innovative research and scholarship requires a culture that values these pursuits [2, 9]. Importantly, institutions that are successful in producing exceptional academic scholarship align the culture of their organizations with these goals [7, 9]. For more than a decade, medicine has characterized the acade...

a comparative study of personality factors, life orientation and hope level in coronary heart patients and normal subjects     shiekhy s [1] , issazadegan a [2] * , banehasmishishevan mr [3] , mahmoodi h [4] , amani saribagloo j [5]     received: 26 nov , 2012 accepted: 20 feb , 2013     abstract   background & aims : one of the most important topics in the field of health psychology is the inf...