Community colleges are significant in the landscape of undergraduate STEM (science technology, engineering, and mathematics) education (9), including biology, premedical, and other preprofessional education. Thirty percent of first-year medical school students in 2012 attended a community college. Students attend at different times in high school, their first 2 yr of college, and postbaccalaure...

BACKGROUND Historically, fourth-year (M4) medical students at the Medical College of Wisconsin who were interested in emergency medicine (EM) worked with faculty in the emergency department primarily in a see-one-staff-one clinical model. Students were sent to see a patient, obtain a history and perform a physical examination and then present a summary to the faculty.1,2,3 The faculty evaluatio...

UNLABELLED Despite attempts to control college-aged drinking, binge and underage drinking continues at colleges and universities. Although often underutilized, faculty have the potential to influence students' behaviors and attitudes towards drinking. Little information is available pertaining to college faculty drinking patterns, views on drinking, or their influence on college drinking. What ...

Rebouche, for their helpful comments as well as the generous faculty commenters at Villanova Law and Temple Law's faculty workshops. Rebecca Cole provided excellent research assistance as always.

BACKGROUND The term 'Faculty Development' encompasses all those activities which help faculty members enhance their academic competencies. It comprises three domains: personal development, professional development, and instructional and course development. The objectives of this study were to determine the proportion of medical colleges involved in faculty development activities, to assess the ...

In addition to learning, the college experience involves building relationships with peers and university faculty. For many students, interactions with faculty take place only in the classroom. For students at small liberal arts colleges, though, students and faculty often meet serendipitously both on and off campus. This study focuses on the unplanned interactions that occur between students a...

Over the past several decades, one of the most significant changes in the delivery of postsecondary education involves the dramatic increase in the use of contingent or part-time faculty. Although the increased use of part-time faculty within higher education makes sense from an administrative point of view, its use does not come without criticism. With community colleges representing a more co...

Author details Department of Nutrition & Dietetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Lincoln University College, No. 2, Jalan Stadium SS 7/15, Kalana Jaya, 47301 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia. Department of Pharmacy, State University of Bangladesh, 77 Satmasjid Road, Dhanmo...