A needs' assessment of interns was undertaken using a self-completion questionnaire and a semistructured interview. The questionnaire explored to what degree graduates had been helped to acquire a range of competencies and professional characteristics. In the interviews graduates discussed their self-perceived learning needs, their educational and training experiences and made ...

OVERVIEW: This study reviews the first decade of critical care medicine (CCM) certification by the American Board of Internal Medicine (1987-1996). Included are the characteristics of examinee and certificate-holder groups; examination performances from different underlying disciplines of internal medicine, with or without formal CCM training; and the influence of background ...

We use an extensive form two-person game as the basis for two experiments designed to compare the behavior of two groups of subjects with each other and with the subgame perfect theoretical prediction in an anonymous interaction protocol. The two subject groups are undergraduates and advanced graduate students, the latter ...

T. Dale Stewart's contributions had a considerable influence on the development and early evolution of the field of forensic anthropology. This composition provides a perception of Stewart from the viewpoint of an advanced graduate student and then a young colleague. It explains, in part, the quiet leadership and assistance that ...

Post graduate research students need to undertake programs that will develop their potential as a scientist. They need to acquire skills to develop scientific argument, design an experimental approach to test a hypothesis, obtain and analyse data, and effectively communicate their ideas and findings to the scientific community. Many biotechnology-based ...

Using its own resources, a follow-up outcome study of 83 out of 119 (70%) graduates from four therapeutic community programs at two inner-city sites was conducted using the Tennessee Self Concept Scale:2 (TSCS:2) and the Post-Treatment Follow-Up Survey (PTFUS). The TSCS:2 and the PTFUS were completed anonymously by the respondent ...

BACKGROUND: Because the distribution of physician services in the rural United States continues to be a problem, rural residency tracks in family practice have been developed as a strategy to acculturate residents into a rural practice model. Residents complete the first year of training in an urban-based program and the ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Many faculty development (FD) programs depend on external private and public sponsors that routinely require systematic studies on FD outcomes. The results of evaluation studies can influence whether or not programs continue to be funded. To better evaluate program outcomes on academic productivity, this paper presents and ...

Professional school clinical psychology graduates not only exhibit inferior performance on the research subtest of the Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology (EPPP; D. I. Templer & M. E. Tomeo, 1998), but they also perform less well on the four more professionally oriented subtests: diagnosis, intervention, professional/ethical/legal issues, and application ...

This article describes the development and initial validation of the Multicultural Environmental Inventory (MEI). The MEI is an instrument designed to measure an individual's perceptions about the degree to which graduate counseling programs address multicultural issues within curriculum, supervision, climate, and research. This investigation was conducted using the data from ...

PURPOSE: To keep the profession apprised of current trends in the job market, the American College of Radiology (ACR) studied the employment situation of 1998 radiation oncology graduates and the status and plans of radiation oncology training programs in the United States. METHODS AND MATERIALS: In April-May 1998, and again ...

Pdf article from Conflict Management in Higher Education Report, Volume 1, Number 3, (August/September 2000), studied the effects of mistreatment of graduate students by faculty on their health and psychological well-being.

The perspectives and enthusiasms recorded in this review describe the events I witnessed and, in small ways, contributed to. Two great rewards emerged from my experiences - the pleasure of doing experiments and the great wealth of friendships with students and colleagues. As a graduate student, phenomena appeared at the ...

A survey of graduate program directors shows that they recognize major change taking place in the health services industry and the need for programs to respond with curriculum revision. The revisions proposed tend to emphasize more practice involvement and human resources management skills rather than increased quantitative and financial competencies. ...

The teaching of research design and data analysis to our graduate students has been a persistent problem. A course is described in which students, early in their graduate training, obtain extensive practice in designing experiments and interpreting data. Lecture-discussions on the essentials of biostatistics are given, and then these essentials ...

The University of Utah has been educating health professionals in medical informatics since 1964. Over the 35 years since the program's inception, 272 graduate students have studied in the department. Most students have been male (80 percent) and have come from the United States (75 percent). Students entering the program ...

The first class to complete the new Adelaide problem-based learning curriculum graduated in 1997. Their self-perceived competence at graduation was assessed using a revised version of a questionnaire recently compiled and used in Toronto, and based on the global competencies for dental practice accepted in 1995 by all Canadian Faculties ...

The Urban Graduate Center is an academic village for graduate studies in an urban setting. The project seeks to establish a campus setting for students and professors who will primarily attend the Graduate Center on evenings and weekends. The Graduate Center seeks to extend the fabric of the existing urban ...

Health education graduate students were surveyed to assess perceptions of their professional responsibility to be role models of healthy behaviors, characteristics of a professional role model, and related socializing experiences during professional preparation. A total of 233 randomly selected health education graduate students participated in this study nationwide. Significant inverse ...

OBJECTIVE: To document a decrease in the supply of family physicians (FPs) and general practitioners among Canadian graduates of medical schools since rotating internships ceased to serve as a route to national licensure. DESIGN: Review of data from the Association of Canadian Medical Colleges, the Canadian Post-M.D. Education Registry, and ...

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine how occupational therapists perceive postprofessional education, specifically the reasons for pursuing or not pursuing graduate education, as well as to examine the factors that seem most important. METHOD: Seven hundred and fifty members of the American Occupational Therapy Association who did ...

: There is extensive and continuing concern over the human health eects of atmospheric particulate matter, which is reected in the debate over the 1997 EPA standards. Much of the evidence supporting such standards comes from statistical and epidemiological studies employing time series regression of mortality and morbidity on a ...

OBJECTIVE: In light of concerns about the job market, the American College of Radiology studied the employment situation of 1998 graduates from diagnostic radiology training programs and the status and plans of the programs. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In April and May 1998, the American College of Radiology surveyed a 50% ...

This article reports on a recent survey of ARRT examinees conducted to determine if multicredentialing and cross-training were essential for newly graduated radiographers seeking entry-level employment in the United States. Results indicated that although employers looked favorably on graduates with multicompetency skills, it was not a major factor in employment ...

Psychologists (44 men, 6 women) were identified as individuals who received both Fellow status from Division 17 of the APA and ABPP Diplomate status in Counseling Psychology. Years of postdoctoral experience acquired prior to gaining the credentials averaged 13.1 (SD = 6.1) for the Division 17 Fellow and 9.8 (SD ...

BACKGROUND: Supervision of newly graduated health care practitioners takes place in many clinical settings, such as in different types of hospital departments, in general practice, and now also within the chiropractic profession. The author conducted an initial study to determine the most important issues regarding the supervision of chiropractic graduates ...

PURPOSE: To measure the performances of first-year residents who had graduated from a medical school with a pass/fail grading system and to compare the preparedness of these graduates with that of their peers. METHOD: All 169 graduates of Stanford University School of Medicine's classes of 1993 and 1994 were included ...

Eighty-five program coordinators responded to a survey concerning Psychiatric Mental Health (PMH) graduate-nursing education. Twelve of these 85 program coordinators reported their programs had closed. Data from the remaining 73 indicated that the number of students entering PMH graduate programs is small. In the past 2 years, most programs have ...

This study compared scores on future time perspective of 50 female prison inmates who were participating in a vocational training program within the Julia Tutwiler Prison. There was no control group. Zimbardo's measure of future time perspective, administered a year earlier, was associated with success or failure in the program. ...

From 1969 through 1996, Meharry Medical College offered the Biomedical Sciences Program, an eight-week summer premedical and predental enrichment program designed to increase the enrollment of minority students in health professions schools. The program focused on preparing undergraduates to pursue health professions careers by providing specially designed courses in biology, ...

This article describes the development and implementation of a graduate student selection method and preliminary results validating the effectiveness of the process. A detailed description of the process is presented to allow replication. Preliminary investigations indicate that the new process is more efficient of faculty time and that students admitted ...

PURPOSE: To quantify the employment status of 1995 graduates of radiation oncology training programs in the United States. METHODS AND MATERIALS: All senior residents (149) and fellows (36) who completed training in 1995 were mailed an employment survey questionnaire by the Association of Residents in Radiation Oncology (ARRO). Telephone follow-up ...

PURPOSE: In light of concerns about the job market, the American College of Radiology (ACR) studied the employment situation of 1997 radiation oncology graduates, and the status and plans of radiation oncology training programs. METHODS AND MATERIALS: In April-May 1997, and in a December follow-up, the ACR surveyed all radiation ...

The aim of this study was to ascertain the views of recent graduates on their undergraduate training. 53 Vocational Training scheme organisers were contacted and 37 (70%) responded 391 new dentists on the schemes were sent postal questionnaires to record information on their views of the undergraduate dental curriculum, 247 ...

Interest in the efficacy of multicultural training for practitioners and scientists working with multicultural populations has led to questions about the characteristics of students who seek this training. Students of ethnic minority background, as compared with White students, may be more likely to seek programs that offer this training, and ...

Many behavioral health professionals eventually assume managerial roles; therefore the extent to which graduate behavioral health programs adequately prepare them for these roles is of concern. To examine this issue, directors from graduate behavioral health training programs were surveyed about whether organizational behavior coursework was routinely provided to their students. ...

Recruitment and retention of health care workers has long been a problem for the rural workforce. One of the methods used to address this problem is exposure to rural practice at an undergraduate level. One such initiative is the Rural Professional Issues Program for undergraduate physiotherapists at the University of ...

This study focused on reasons midlife (40-59 years) women graduate students pursued graduate study and identified their experiences when enrolled. Developmental theory and concepts of generativity and complexity were used to analyze the data (Erikson, 1950, 1968; Ryff & Heinke, 1983; McAdams, Ruitzel, & Foley, 1986). The responses of 212 ...

The four reports that follow embody the second installment of a series designed both to provide an orienting overview of education in the history of psychology to prospective students in the field and to characterize one highly significant aspect of the state of the discipline as the century ends. Like ...

This article describes the results of a survey of radiography program directors on positioning competencies for entry-level radiographers. The survey asked program directors to classify projections as essential, important, rarely needed or for reference only. The objective of the study was to rank radiographic projections from most to least important ...

OBJECTIVE: In light of concerns about the job market, the American College of Radiology studied the employment situation of 1997 graduates from diagnostic radiology training programs and the status and plans of these programs. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In an April-May 1997 survey and in a December 1997 follow-up, the American ...

The traditional model for the mentoring of graduate students has been for the student to receive all formal mentoring from the thesis advisor, the laboratory principal investigator (PI). While this continues to be a successful model for some students, other students find that they need or desire additional mentors during ...

One of the most striking changes to affect the direction of current biomedical research is the increasing use of transgenic or gene-targeted mice as models of gene function and human disease. The proliferation of transgenic and gene-targeting technology has contributed to a rebirth of histology as an important research tool ...

OBJECTIVE: The American College of Radiology sought to detail the initial employment experience of 1996 diagnostic radiology and radiation oncology graduates, the actual effect of factors expected to generate poor employment outcomes, and trends since 1995. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In autumn 1996, questionnaires were mailed to all graduates; 69% responded. ...

When Dr. D. Corydon Hammond invited me to write a paper for this symposium on hypnosis training, it was obvious that its greatest contribution could be a description of the rather intensive program developed over 2 decades at the University of Montana. However, it became apparent that the Montana program ...

To provide a sound basis for modification of our paediatric residency education programme, we surveyed graduates from the past 16 years. The questionnaire was designed to determine the adequacy of training rotations in preparing graduates for their career paths. Questionnaires were mailed to 81 graduates; 73 (90%) replied. A modified ...

PURPOSE: This article presents a review that used three ADA studies on the distribution of dentists to determine whether the number of private practice prosthodontists in the mid 1990s has kept pace with the population in the various regions and states. RESULTS: Findings indicate that between 1987 and 1991 there ...

Job satisfaction, as assessed via five scales that posed questions concerning colleagues, work, supervision, pay, and promotion, as well as overall total job satisfaction, was examined for 55 self-identified college graduates with learning disabilities (LD) and 55 control graduates matched by gender, major, degree, and graduation year. All participants graduated ...

Graduate students today may be faced with the option of writing either a traditional format thesis or a paper format thesis. In contrast to the traditional format in which the text body consists of four or five chapters, the body of the paper format thesis can be comprised of an ...

Provision of meaningful professional credentials to Poultry Science graduates requires the sharing of expertise among a number of departments. Increased access to specialized poultry courses will assist in assuring that all graduates have excellent technical credentials. Greater access could be brought about through distance learning materials developed on a regional ...