dear editor program directors need to evaluate educational programs to ensure their quality (1). the results of a survey conducted in tehran university of medical sciences (tums) in early 2012 showed that program evaluation was not an established process in the majority of schools. it was at best a stand-alone project focusing on a single course or a particular component of it with no structure...

We study a Bayesian game of two-sided incomplete information in which an agent, who owns a project of unknown quality, considers proposing it to an evaluator, who has the choice of whether or not to accept it. There exist two distinct tiers of evaluation that di¤er in the bene…ts they deliver to the agent upon acceptance of a project. The agent has to select the tier to which the project is sub...

BACKGROUND This paper provides an overview of the Referral Evaluation Project, which took place in South East Wales, UK during 2007-2008. AIM To engage general practitioners (GPs) and consultants in the local hospitals of Gwent Healthcare Trust in discussions as to the validity, quality and appropriateness of GPs' referrals and to increase the quality of those referrals. To discuss with other...

As the value of an IT project can change over time, management is in “blind flight” about the state of the project until the project has been re-evaluated. As each evaluation causes costs, continuous evaluation is economically unreasonable. Nevertheless, the “blind flight” should not take too long, because the project value can considerably deviate from its initial estimation and high losses ca...