PURPOSE To assess the relative importance of criteria used for residency selection in 21 medical specialties given current available data and competitiveness of specialties. METHOD In 2006, questionnaires were distributed to 2,528 program directors in university hospital or university-affiliated community hospital residency programs across 21 medical specialties. Responses were recorded using...

OBJECTIVE To identify nursing home standards through a nationwide survey of directors of nursing regarding transitions of care for residents transferred from acute care hospitals to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). METHODS A national survey was distributed online and was completed by 241 directors of nursing of SNFs. The directors of nursing were asked about communication methods, transfer ...

PURPOSE The results of a survey assessing the views of pharmacy directors, medical center executives, and pharmacists on the value of residency programs to their institutions are reported. METHODS In a two-phase survey entailing face-to-face interviews and the use of an electronic questionnaire, representatives of the pharmacy departments and executive staffs of eight academic medical centers...

While executive directors are responsible for superior performance, their behaviour may not always be aligned with shareholder interests. Non-executive directors provide one method of monitoring and controlling these and other agency costs. An event study focusing on director departure provides some insight into the economic importance of directors to shareholders. Initial results highlight bot...

Gioacchino Failla was initially appointed to operate the radon plant at Memorial Hospital in 1916. What to most people would have been a part-time temporary position was to him a career. He was not satisfied to simply fabricate radon seeds, he wanted to understand the physics and biology of the radiation emitted by the progeny of radium. His was not the first medical physics group in the United...

Purpose To assess the relative importance of criteria used for residency selection in 21 medical specialties given current available data and competitiveness of specialties. Method In 2006, questionnaires were distributed to 2,528 program directors in university hospital or university-affiliated community hospital residency programs across 21 medical specialties. Responses were recorded using a...

As early as the 1970s there were attempts by the leadership of the AUR to recruit residency program directors, including private (community hospital) directors. The efforts did not go much beyond letters of invitation however, and at the time, complex membership requirements made it difficult for private directors to qualify. The first substantive effort began in the fall of 1984 when the late ...

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of motivational interviewing based on the ability, information, and motivation (AIM) model on adherence to treatment and glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) in female patients with type 2 diabetes. Materials and Methods: In this randomized controlled clinical trial 60 women with type 2 diabetes were randomly selected from the 73 p...

PURPOSE Residency program directors' perceptions of the scramble process in 2013 using the Pharmacy Online Residency Centralized Application Service (PhORCAS) were evaluated. METHODS After the ASHP Resident Matching Program ("Match") results were released in 2013, programs were asked to not extend offers to applicants until the following Monday, allowing a week for programs and applicants to ...

This paper presents a fully experimental study on melting, flow and weld strength development during ultrasonic welding of CF/PPS composites with integrated triangular energy directors. The main goal of this research was assessing whether the heating time to achieve maximum weld strength could be significantly reduced as compared to ultrasonic welding with flat energy directors. The main conclu...