OBJECTIVE A tracking study of the undergraduate medical students and postgraduate residents who participated in the Northwestern Ontario Medical Programme (NOMP) during its first 25 years (1972-1997) was conducted to search for factors related to physician recruitment to Northwestern Ontario. METHODS Annual editions of the Canadian Medical Directory were used to determine how many participant...

Many postgraduate students of a non-English-speaking background (NESB) studying at Western universities experience difficulties – more so than their undergraduate counterparts. Reading has been cited as one of the most neglected problems facing postgraduate international students. This paper is part of a larger investigation, exploring the reading traditions and practices which influence the in...

term in those days. The traditional concept of quality was inferred from the fact that world-class universities like Harvard and Oxford were considered benchmarks and no further dissection on the dimensions of quality was done. (Green 1994). Green (1994) gave an extensive analysis of the literature that defines the term quality and categorized them into the following five approaches (1) Conform...

1 Associate Professor, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2 Postgraduate Student, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3 Statistical Consultant, Dental Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran 4 Assistant Pro...

1 Assistant professor, Oral and maxillofacial radiology, Dental material research center, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran 2 Postgraduate student of pediatric dentistry, Dental material research center, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran 3 Assistant professor of endodontics, Dental material research center, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran 4 Dent...