Despite the importance of teaching, research, and related activities to the mission of academic medical departments, no useful and widely agreed-on metrics exist with which to assess the value of individual faculty members' contributions in these areas. Taking the concept of the clinical relative value unit (RVU) as a model, the authors describe the development of an academic RVU (aRVU) system ...

Mathematical programming has been successfully used for years in a variety of problems related to hard systems in which the structure, relations and behaviour are well-defined and quantifiable. Unfortunately, attempts to apply similar means to soft systems have not been generally successful. One of the reasons for this mismatching is the key role played by human judgement and preferences which ...

background and purpose: undoubtedly, social networks are being used extensively and are the most important communicative tool among students, especially at higher levels of education. we aimed to investigate the effect of social networks on education and academic learning. methods: this quasi-experimental study was conducted on 32 nursing students who were taking the cancer nursing course at ke...

introduction: today, stress is one of the human’s problems particularly in developing and developed countries. so, many people try to determine these factors and presented suitable solutions. the purpose of this research was to determine job stressors among librarians of isfahan university of medical sciences, iran in 2009. methods: this study was survey research in which data was collected by ...

introduction: high quality of care is one of the requirements of nursing which depends on the nursing competency. in this connection, the aim of this research was to determine the problems related to the academic training (nursing’ educational program) and clinical practice to achieve competency from the viewpoint of nurses, faculty members, and nursing students. methods: the study was an analy...

Emerging adult college students have developmental and educational needs which are unique to their phase of life. The purpose of this study was to examine academic and non-academic technology use by emerging adult college students. Survey results (N=235) provided insights into emerging adult college student technology preferences and frequency of use for academic and non-academic purposes. This...

abstract. academic spin-offs are recognized as the main means of technology transfer, contribute to the commercialization of the results of academic research, leading to society wealth creation. academic spin-offs start with some major disadvantages related to their liability of newness, smallness and their university origination. it is been argued that academic spin-off need to strengthen thei...

ôbjective: ïn ïran few studies have investigated the association among the dimensions of perfectionism with the academic achievement and other psychopathologies, such as depression and anxiety. this study has investigated these relationships in an ïranian school-age sample. methods: üsing multistage cluster random sampling, 793 students completed the questionnaire anonymously in the classroom i...

the aim of present research was examine of relationship between destruction meta-cognitive beliefs and academic achievement of students with test anxiety. for this purpose, 243 girls and boys subjects with test anxiety of 900 students of guidance schools of noshar city were determined as the sample of study. for gathering the data, meta-cognition questionnaire and test anxiety inventory were us...