Doctorate holders represent a crucial human resource for research and innovation. As a site for the production of new knowledge and new knowledge making practices, doctoral education has recently become ‘a matter of increasing interest and concern’ in many parts of the world (Lee & Green, 1995, p. 2), as a consequence of educational reforms. In China, postgraduate education is a borrowed concep...

Despite the drive towards evidence-based practice, the extent to which research evidence is being implemented in nursing practice is unclear, particularly in developing countries. This study was to assess the levels of perceived barriers to and facilitators of research utilization in practice among Chinese nurses and inter-relationships between these barriers and facilitators and their socio-de...

X-ray exposure to dental patients has been significantly reduced by the introduction of speed group E intraoral film, rectangular beam limitation, long position indicating devices (PIDs), and rare-earth intensifying screens for extraoral radiography. Research indicates that many dentists do not use these techniques. However, schools of dentistry have implemented them to varying degrees for many...

PEDIATRIC PRACTICE: A. THE PEDIATRICIAN AS A SPECIALIST T lIE BOLE of time pediatrician in the totality of medical practice in timis country undergoes close scrutiny; panels and papers imave dealt witim it. Pediatric educators are vitally concerned timat timeir teaclming programs be tailored to future needs; official interest of the American Academy of Pediatrics lmas been expressed througim it...

The present paper reports on the results of a telephone survey of 217 alcohol and drug treatment clinicians on their beliefs and practice, in relation to service provision for women. Nurses comprised the second largest professional group surveyed. Seventy-eight percent of clinicians believed that women's treatment needs differed from men's and 74% reported a range of approaches and intervention...

INTRODUCTION The pharmacists played an important role in the development of biochemistry as applied chemistry in Serbia. What is more, the first seven state chemists in Serbia were pharmacists. State chemists performed the chemical-toxicological analysis as well as some medical and biochemical ones. When it comes to the education of medical biochemists as health workers, the period after the be...

Molecular Microbiology and Immunology has a long history of providing graduate and postgraduate education in basic principles of microbiology and immunology, as well as research training opportunities in the laboratories of established scientists with diverse research interests. Faculty expansion has provided new curricular offers with flexibility for personalized scholarly pursuits built in. T...

Address: 1Assistant Professor, Department of Cytopathology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, INDIA, 2Senior Resident, Department of Radiodiagnosis, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, INDIA, 3Additional Professor, Department of Cytopathology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, INDIA, 4Assis...

background: the first stage of the accreditation, process as the most important way of assurance and improvement of the quality of high education process is collection of standards. to describe present and desirable quality of nursing and midwifery postgraduate education via accreditation process in iran, we decided to compile applicable standards in this field, using available international st...

1 Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiac Anaesthesiology Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, India 2 PDT Department of Cardiac Anaesthesiology Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, India 3 Professor, Department of Cardiac Anaesthesiology Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, India 4 Professor and Head, ...