Scutwork.com is an online, peer-based residency review system. We report preliminary results of an online survey designed to investigate the impact of Scutwork on the residency application process. Overall, 68% of respondents believe that the reviews influenced their decision-making and 91% would use Scutwork again. These results and others reported below suggest that Scutwork may play a signif...

Manufacturing industry has over the last decade become global and is operating in an integrated supply chain using e-work technology. In order to meet this challenge, education must reflect these changes and must become globally oriented. For this reason the IMS project “Global Education in Manufacturing” (GEM) has been launched. The main objective of GEM is to develop a new curriculum covering...

BACKGROUND In-service training of nursing personnel has a significant role in increasing the empowerment of nurses and promotion of the quality of health services. The objective of this study is to identify and explain the process of in-service training of nursing personnel in the hospitals affiliated with Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences in Tehran. MATERIALS AND METHODS The presen...

PURPOSE The study was done to identify turnover intention in new nurses according to characteristics of the nurses and other factors affecting turnover and to provide data to set up a strategy to reduce the turnover. METHODS Data were collected from 1,077 new nurses who had less than 12 months employment experience and worked in one of 188 hospitals. Eight research instruments were used. Data...

1 Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Surgical Education and Training program. Melbourne: RACS, 2007. http://www.surgeons.org/Content/NavigationMenu/EducationandTraining (accessed Oct 2007). 2 Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Council highlights August 2007. Melbourne: RACS, 2007. http://www.surgeons.org/Content/NavigationMenu/WhoWeAre/Council/CouncilHighlights/Council_Highlights_Augu...

This study was carried out to determine the feedback from the primary school headmasters on in-service training activities. 384 primary school headmasters were asked to give feedback on the in-service training facilities organized by the Ministry of Education through an open –ended question. The study group was formed by 359 primary school headmasters who attended “Management Skills” seminars w...

1Terry Fox Foundation Strategic Training Initiative for Excellence in Radiation Research for the 21st Century at CIHR, 2Department of Radiation Oncology, 3Institute of Medical Science, 5Department of Medical Biophysics, and 17Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 2J7, Canada; 4Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and Campbell Family Cancer Researc...

This study evaluated the effectiveness of a teacher-implemented intervention package designed to replace prelinguistic behaviors with functional communication. Four young children with autism participated in a multiple-probe design across three communicative functions. Initially, three existing communication functions were selected for each child. Next, the existing prelinguistic behaviors that...

Sara Higueras-Fresnillo, Pilar Guallar-Castillón, Verónica Cabanas-Sanchez, José R. Banegas, Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo, David Martinez-Gomez Department of Physical Education, Sport, and Human Movement, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid/...

OBJECTIVE This study quantitatively examined the prevalence and correlates of short-term sex work cessation among female sex workers who inject drugs (FSW-IDUs) and determined whether injection drug use was independently associated with cessation. METHODS We used data from FSW-IDUs (n=467) enrolled into an intervention designed to increase condom use and decrease sharing of injection equipmen...