On 30 September each year the Medical Workforce Unit of the Royal College of Physicians of London (RCP) undertakes a census of consultant physicians on behalf of the Federation of Medical Royal Colleges of the UK. The 16th census collated responses (online or hard copy) and confirmed or supplemented data from other sources including specialist societies and Human Resources departments within tr...

Mean starting salary among graduates of U.S. veterinary medical schools and colleges during 2008 was $51,321 for males and $47,330 for females. Mean debt for male graduates with debt was $115,059, whereas mean debt for female graduates with debt was $121,006.

OBJECTIVE To determine the use of information technology (IT) among students of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy in Prince Sattam Bin AbdulAziz University, Al-Khraj, Saudi Arabia (PSAU). STUDY DESIGN Across-sectional survey. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY From September 2014 to January, 2015. METHODOLOGY Aclose-ended questionnaire consisting of 30 multiple choice questions (MCQs) was distri...

Ased on the National Education Ministry's "Main Courses Teaching Guidance Outline For College Physical Education Undergraduate Course", this study analyzes some main issues in the football tactic teaching in sports education professional. Combining the present high normal colleges and universities physical education teaching, the study designs and develops the football tactic teaching system wi...

CCC 58:3 / FEBRUARY 2007 Those of us who work in writing in the disciplines (WID) are aware of a disjunction between the way we conceive the relationship between writing and knowing in the disciplines and the way so many faculty across our colleges and universities conceive that relationship. This disjunction may be quickly summed up as the division between writing in the disciplines and writin...

Economic outcomes are compared for university graduates in Israel belonging to four different ethnic groups. A unique dataset is used that includes all individuals who graduated with a first degree from universities and colleges in Israel between the years 1995 and 2008 and which tracks them for up to 10 years from the year they graduated. The main finding is that education and experience appea...

To meet the increasing demand for a more educated nursing workforce, the Regionally Increasing Baccalaureate Nurses (RIBN) initiative provides an economically feasible educational pathway between community colleges and universities so that more North Carolina nursing students can achieve a baccalaureate degree at the beginning of their career.

OBJECTIVE To learn lessons from a traditional midwifery workforce in Western Kenya. DESIGN With the assistance of an interpreter, qualitative data was collected during in-depth individual and group interviews with traditional midwives. English components of the interviews were transcribed verbatim and the data thematically analysed. SETTING A rural, economically disadvantaged area of Wester...

The analyses described in this article investigated the association between adolescent fertility expectations and college enrollment (N = 7,838). They also explored the potential impact of fertility expectations and events on college persistence among 4-year (n = 2,605) and 2-year (n = 1,962) college students. The analysis, which used data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 coh...