OBJECTIVE The aim of the study is to figure out the status of tinnitus management program (TMP) being conducted in India, to estimate the use of different tinnitus management program, to study the role of various professionals involved and document the current practices of audiologist in country. DESIGN A questionnaire on "tinnitus management survey" was developed and distributed to 150 insti...

Gerard Anderson, et al., in a recent commentary published in Health Affairs (March/April 1999), concluded that "despite dire predictions, America's teaching hospitals appear to be thriving".' This outdated conclusion, based largely on data from 1995, is dangerously optimistic and belies mounting evidence that documents the significant financial stress now facing teaching hospitals around the co...

We introduce and study two-sided matching with incomplete information and interdependent valuations on one side of the market. An example of such a setting is a matching market between colleges and students in which colleges receive partially informative signals about students. Stability in such markets depends on the amount of information about matchings available to colleges. When colleges ob...

PURPOSE The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and Drexel University College of Medicine have designed and implemented national career development programs (CDPs) to help women faculty acquire and strengthen skills needed for success in academic medicine. The authors hypothesized that skills women acquired in CDPs would vary by career stage and program attended. METHOD In 2011, t...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES In the last two decades, the curriculum in medical education has changed so as to maintain its efficiency and effectiveness. Considerable changes are underway in many medical colleges worldwide. This study assessed the current status of the undergraduate curricula in the medical colleges of the Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) countries, in relation to the SPICES (studen...

Based on analyzing characteristics of innovative teaching teams in colleges and universities, the paper elaborates the construction principles of innovative teaching teams in colleges and universities, puts forward the “Four, Three, Four, One” organizing mode of innovative teaching teams in colleges and universities, and can be consulted while establishing current innovative teaching teams in c...

This paper revisits the college admissions problem and studies the efficiency, incentive, and monotonicity for colleges. We show that max-min criterion that is stronger than substitutability, together with the quota-saturability that requires having enough acceptable applicants, guarantees weak Pareto efficiency and strategy-proofness for colleges under the colleges-proposing deferred acceptanc...

The paper regards the 42 undergraduate colleges (the independent colleges are not included) of Henan province by the end of 2013 as the object of research, builds the composite indicator rank model of undergraduate colleges’ educational resource allocation. On this basis, the authors use the score of integrated factor as the rank of composite indicator. In addition, they cluster to the educatio...

For-profit, or proprietary, colleges are the fastest-growing postsecondary schools in the nation, enrolling a disproportionately high share of disadvantaged and minority students and those ill-prepared for college. Because these schools, many of them big national chains, derive most of their revenue from taxpayer-funded student financial aid, they are of interest to policy makers not only for t...