This study investigates the effects of scientists’ inbound mobility on the research performance of incumbent scientists in an academic setting. The theoretical framework integrates insights from learning theory and social comparison theory to suggest two main mechanisms behind these effects, localized learning and social comparison. The authors propose several hypotheses about the conditions th...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A review of four academic units has been initiated under the auspices of " Stewarding Excellence " at the University of Illinois. The review includes a central set of questions regarding whether the consolidation or merger of small units into larger units would generate increased administrative efficiencies. This report provides a systematic method for answering such a questio...

PURPOSE To determine how productivity- and finance-related indicators are used by radiology departments to evaluate departmental performance. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study met the criteria to be exempt from institutional review board approval. All subjects were informed of the purpose of the study and that their questionnaire responses would be kept confidential. For the study, a survey was...

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While each sector of medical practice and academic medicine confronts the reality of a changing economic environment driven by managed care, psychiatry faces some of the most difficult challenges in defining the future roles and training of psychiatrists. In this paper we describe the challenges and opportunities for psychiatry in this new era, as well as some of the unique problems facing acad...

Sweden is often described as one of the best countries in the world for women to live in. Despite this and despite a number of equal opportunity interventions within the area of higher education from the mid 1990s and on Sweden follows the international pattern of the “leaking pipeline” when it comes to gender distribution in academia. The higher up in the academic hierarchy the more men and th...

chronic brain diseases in which ordered protein polymerization is endogenously seeded. A detailed understanding of this process may shed new light on the etiology of these diseases, allow risk factors to be identified, and pave the way for more effective and specific Peter T. Lansbury, Jr. Center for Neurologic Diseases Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Neurology Harvard Medical School...