W hile I was completing my nurse practitioner program, I interviewed for a PRN position at a large private oncology practice. The oncolo-gist with whom I spoke was aware that I was continuing my graduate nursing education; she spoke of how they might consider me for employment as an oncology nurse practitioner upon my graduation. As she talked about her current staff, she used a descriptor I ha...

ALTHOUGH NURSING THEORISTS have incorporated some concepts from Asian wisdom traditions (Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism) into their works, the ways that these traditions might inform Western nursing philosophies, praxis, and ethics is underdeveloped in the professional literature. These differences have been more extensively explored in disciplines other than nursing (psychology, philosophy...

From the Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA The views expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the American Board of Pediatrics, the Association of Pediatric Program Directors, or th...

Aims and method To assess trends of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology examination pass rates before and after the 2003 duty hours regulations (DHR). We obtained the pass rates for part I and II for years 2000-2010. Data were divided pre-DHR (2000-2003) and post-DHR (2007-2010). Results During the pre-DHR period, first- and multiple-attempt group pass rates were 80.7% and 39.0% whic...

This paper interrogates the relationship between working-class participation in higher education (HE) in England and social and cultural mobility. It argues that embarking on a university education for working-class people has been construed in governmental discourses as an instrumental means of achieving upward mobility, or of aspiring to ‘become middle class’. Education in this sense is thus ...

Fall 2005 will be the start of our new MATESL curriculum. Lest the title suggest too dramatic a change going forward, let me assure the reader that the basics of the new curriculum are the same as they have been since Fall 1988, the start of our current curriculum. The newness is in how we address some difficult and long-standing issues. What do you do when you want to provide a quality graduat...

Robert Earle Buchanan (1883-1973), 19th President of the Society of American Bacteriologists (later American Society for Microbiology), was one of the more important 20th century microbiologists. He was a dominant force in creating the field of bacterial systematics and made significant contributions to microbial physiology. He also numbered a number of influential textbooks. A reasonable concl...

This article presents a detailed guide for high school through graduate level instructors that leads students to write effective and well-organized scientific papers. Interesting research emerges from the ability to ask questions, define problems, design experiments, analyze and interpret data, and make critical connections. This process is incomplete, unless new results are communicated to oth...

Biomedical education is currently faced with a number of significant challenges, including the explosion of information and the need to train researchers who can work across traditional disciplinary boundaries. We propose a new integrated model for graduate education in the life sciences that addresses these issues.