Perspective: PhD Scientists Completing Medical School in Two Years: Looking at the Miami PhD-to-MD Program Alumni Twenty Years Later

Gateways to the Laboratory: How an MD-PhD Program Increased the Number of Minority Physician-Scientists.

Traditional underrepresented minority (URM) groups (African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans) remain underrepresented among physician-scientists. To address the dearth of URM physician-scientists, in 1993 the Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan Kettering Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program developed a pipeline program, Gateways to the Laboratory (Gateways), which focuses on increasing t...

MD/PHD program at the John A. Burns School of Medicine.

tor the medical sehoil were required n complete their acadentic decree pin r to admission. n I )95 the policy s as revised to allow some fiexihilitx for starting or completing a degree along with the Nd D. but the combined degrees were not encouraged. There were a number ot reasons br the poiic\ that discouiaued dual degrees. Most prominent among them crc the School’s emphasis on the de\elopine...

Twenty Years Later

The first RTA conference took place in Dijon, in 1985. This year, 2005, it takes place in Nara. Nara and Dijon share a glorious past but can be considered as being “Sleeping Beauties”, after the title of a book by the Nobel price novelist yasunari Kawabata. Is RTA sleeping on its glorious past ? Back in the late 80s, many of us feared that this would soon be the case, that research in rewrite s...

Twenty Years Later

About twenty years ago the measure of smoothness ω φ (f, t) was introduced and related to the rate of polynomial approximation. In this article we survey developments about this and related concepts since that time. MSC: 41A10, 41A17, 41A25, 41A27, 41A30, 41A36, 41A40, 41A50, 41A63, 26A15, 26B35, 26B05, 42C05, 26A51, 26A33, 46E35 keywords: Moduli of smoothness, K-functionals, realization functi...

The Medical Studies Act and allied medical societies: looking back at Niven v. Siqueira twenty-five years later.