Visiting Professorship

MAINZ Visiting Professorship Lecture Series

Visiting professorship in hospital medicine: An innovative twist for a growing specialty.

INTRODUCTION As an emerging and rapidly growing specialty, academic hospitalists face unique challenges in career advancement. Key mentoring needs, especially developing reputation and relationships outside of their institution are often challenging. METHODS We describe the structure of a novel Visiting Professorship in Hospital Medicine Program. It utilizes reciprocal exchanges of hospitalis...

- Research Professorship Proposal - Agent-Based Social Simulations on Parallel Computers

The goal of the proposed research project is to study the conditions for the stability of a population consisting of motivationally heterogeneous agents and to identify large scale laws and patterns related to the structure and dynamics of social systems. A population of rational agents is divided in the three main classes identified in the social theories: the selfish who always defects, the a...

Health Visiting

This is a textbook for Health Visitor students and is intended to cover the new syllabus of the Royal Sanitary Institute. The author makes it quite clear that she is not attempting to deal with subjects on which specialist books arc available, but merely to give students a reference book to help them in their work. The various social services arc described and much of the book is taken up with ...

Visiting Professors

are called upon to undertake a great deal of work which is outside their terms of contract and which often takes them away for appreciable periods of time. The universities recognize this, for the work which is done in this way often helps to bring credit to the university and the contacts which are made bring distinguished visitors and may also attract junior staff and research workers of high...