Flood of applicants delays EC training grants

Commentary: Research grants: advice to applicants.

According to one view, the project review mechanism is a beneficent goddess, nourishing researchers with a free flow of funds from her capacious federal breasts. A contrary view holds it to be a pernicious system, encouraging mediocrity and penalizing the original and creative researcher; at its best, bestowing its favors randomly, and, at its worst, fostering injustice and imbalance. To achiev...

Health assessment of applicants for nurse training.

Do otolaryngology residency applicants relocate for training?

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To determine whether there is an association between the geographic location of an applicant's undergraduate school, medical school, and residency program among matched otolaryngology residency applicants. STUDY DESIGN Observational. METHODS Otolaryngology residency program applications to our institution from 2009 to 2013 were analyzed. The geographic location of each...

A description of disqualifications of enlisted applicants for submarine training.

Residency applicants' perspectives on family medicine residency training length.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The Future of Family Medicine report advocated experimentation with 4-year residency training models. This study examines residency applicants' opinions about extending the length of residency training and seeks to determine which features of an extended program would be most desirable to applicants. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional, descriptive, self-administe...