Innovative changes in undergraduate Nursing programs have brought about new methodologies and the need for cost evaluation. This study aims to develop a model for cost estimation, and to estimate educational costs of an integrated Nursing curriculum at a public university. This is a case study conducted in stages: model development, data collection, analysis and interpretation. The cost-constru...

A Parsimonious Method for Offline Freeway Travel Time Estimation From Sectional Speed Detectors Willem W. E. Himpe a , Chris M. J. Tampère a & Bieke Moelans b a Center for Industrial Management/Traffic & Infrastructure, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering , KULeuven, Leuven , Belgium b Departement Mobiliteit en Openbare Werken , Antwerp , Belgium Accepted author version posted online: 13 May 2013...

In this paper we describe a web-based information system, which serves for a first contact between a university and a prospecting student (applicant) in the admission process. We describe advantages of an involvement of the applicant into the virtual space of the university. Our e-Application system covers the whole admission process. The objective is to make the communication between the unive...

This work explores various ways of making the FERweb CMS system (a web-based Content Management System of the Faculty of electrical engineering and computing at the University of Zagreb) a "distributed system". Here, the notion of a distributed system is taken quite literally, and stands for executing as many components of the system as possible on as many different computer systems. The only l...

BACKGROUND There is evidence that the addition of current medical student interviewers (CMSI) to faculty interviewers (FI) is valuable to the medical school admissions process. This study provides objective data about the contribution of CMSI to the admissions process. METHOD Thirty-six applicants to a 4-year medical school program were interviewed by both CMSI and FI, and the evaluations com...

Faculty development implications related to implementing the Family Medicine Curriculum Resource (FMCR) Project provide an opportunity to look at the recommendations of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine's federally funded Faculty Futures Initiative (FFI) and the recent Future of Family Medicine (FFM) project. Implications for faculty development include the importance of the clerkship ...

BACKGROUND Because of the shortage of health professionals, particularly in specialty areas, Rwanda initiated the Human Resources for Health (HRH) Program. In this program, faculty from United States teaching institutions (USF) "twin" with Rwandan Faculty (RF) to transfer skills. This paper assesses the twinning model, exploring USF and RF goal setting, satisfaction and perceptions of the effec...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES The American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine (AUB-FM) strategy is to develop faculty members (fm) skills by sponsoring local and international scientific activities has been in place for over three decades, and remains dependent on individuals' efforts. In 2011-2012, Faculty Development Program (FDP) was introduced to develop faculty leadership, business ski...

Unlike in the past, standards for quantity and quality of work expected from medical school faculty are continuously rising, causing changes stress various areas. This highlights need career development among professional, personal, organizational, societal reasons. The role has become more diverse, leading to an increase types levels competencies required. Medical schools must support their me...