The museum micro-fellowship

Museum as Text An Introduction to the Relationship between Semiotics and the Museum as an Institution

The Reading of Museum is the title of a book by Reza Dabirinezhad that has just been published and is available to the Iranian academic and cultural community. The author is a museum specialist and one of the renowned executives of the country's museums, who uses the methodology of semiotics to analyze the mechanism of the interpretation of museum objects and the Semantic System in museums. Sin...

The Continuing Fellowship Conundrum

The Association of Pathology Chairs (APC) leads and serves as the voice of academic pathology through engagement, advocacy, education, resource development and networking. In pursuing its goals, APC serves the interests of the profession of pathology as well as academic medical centers and the public at large, and envisions and supports excellence in all missions of academic pathology. The foll...

The radiology fellowship and fellowship match: current status.

The processes of museum text creation at The Spurlock Museum

While often one goes to a museum in order to see visual artifacts, be they paintings, a shovel from the fifth century, or the inside of a space engine, it is important to remember that "meaning is constructed and interpreted in relation to text-based resources: meanings do not arise from thin-air; they are textual products" (Ravelli, 150). In museums, these "resources" include, but are not limi...

Hand Surgery Fellowship Selection Criteria: A National Fellowship Director Survey

BACKGROUND Candidate characteristics for hand surgery fellowship training remains unknown, as very little data is available in the literature. This study aims to provide information on the criteria that are employed to select candidates for the hand surgery fellowship match. METHODS A 38-question survey was sent in April 2015 to all Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education recogni...