BACKGROUND Various studies have been conducted in many countries to determine the perception/awareness about plastic surgery. The present study assessed the views of college students about plastic surgery. METHODS A questionnaire consisted of nine questions regarding the basic knowledge about plastic surgery was randomly distributed among college students. The students were given 20 minutes ...

a number of authors have investigated whether aggregate and! or local labor market conditions affect college enrollment, hut the results across studies are very inconsistent. there are two shortcomings in the previous studies that may explain the weak correlation between labor market opportunities and college enrollment. first, we will use the unique structure of the hs & b to construct unemplo...

OBJECTIVES To adapt and evaluate an instrument that measures perceived psychological contract violations in pharmacy students by schools and colleges of pharmacy. DESIGN A psychological contract violations measure was developed from existing literature and the 1997 ACPE Guidelines and pilot-tested with second-year pharmacy students at 2 schools of pharmacy. A revised measure then was administ...

It is perhaps not inappropriate that this Symposium should be held at St. Luke's Hall in the University of Exeter because fourteen years ago St. Luke's College as it then was started an optional course in Sports medicine for their third year physical education students, and was one of the first Colleges in this country to do so. Since then it has been much concerned with all aspects of Sports m...

Student performance has dominated current discussions on educational matters and many believe that the new curriculum is not yet absorbed in schools and consequently student performance leaves much to be desired. This has resulted in finger pointing among stakeholders. However, the fact of the matter is that something should be done to improve the current status quo. Every one has a right to ba...

Since the late 1950s there has been an explosion in the field of bioethics. Gone are the days when problems were resolved by emulating seniors in the profession. Writing in The National Medical Journal of India, Dr SK Pandya laments that today “unfortunately the number of role models in the medical colleges is diminishing as unethical practices flourish and this adds to the frustration of stude...

Like at most colleges and universities, a relatively small number of courses at Oakton account for a large percentage of student enrollments. In this In the Abstract, we present information about Oakton’s high enrollment courses and the characteristics of students enrolling in them. Data are from Fall 1998 through Spring 2003 semesters, excluding summers. First, what are the high enrollment cou...