This study was conducted to evaluate the predoctoral removable partial denture (RPD) curricula in Turkish dental schools in regards to materials, techniques, and approaches. A questionnaire consisting of eighteen multiple-choice questions was sent by e-mail to the senior members of the prosthodontic departments of seventeen long-established dental schools in Turkey. The response rate was 100 pe...

Hunter Gehlbach, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University; Maureen E. Brinkworth, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University; and Anna Harris, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University. This research was supported by generous funding through a grant from the Spencer Foundation and an Early Career Research Award by Division 15 of the American Psycholo...

Traditionally medical schools have relied on performance in knowledge-based examinations for selection and although these distinguish academically able applicants, it is often the failure to develop non-cognitive competencies such as motivation and/or empathy and ability to communicate that lead to problems for doctors in their professional lives. If we accept that we want our doctors to have t...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the proportion of students in Australian medical schools who undertake international medical electives (IMEs), particularly in developing countries, and to ascertain which medical schools provide predeparture training and postelective debriefing. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Extraction of data on the number of students undertaking electives from the Medical Schools ...

Interviews with the directors or program chairs of Canada’s seven graduate schools of library and information studies revealed that schools face four common issues: (1) relocation within the university administrative structure or partnership with other academic units, (2) introduction of broader curriculum menus and more flexible course schedules, (3) closer liaison with industry for research f...

UT-Austin administrative data between 1990 and 2003 are used to evaluate claims that students granted automatic admission based on top 10% class rank underperform academically relative to lower ranked students who graduate from highly competitive high schools. Compared with white students ranked at or below the third decile, top 10% black and Hispanic enrollees arrive with lower average standar...

This paper develops the concept of institutional social capital and discusses its importance in the labor market. Institutional social capital is constituted by the resources inherent in an organization (such as a school) and thereby available to members of that organization. This is contrasted with the social capital available to individuals through their own personal networks. In the labor ma...

Many Departments of Physiology are administratively and fiscally in medical schools. Consequently, graduate students in these departments interact with medical faculty and medical students. They frequently take courses with medical students. From time to time the question has been asked whether this arrangement is in the best interest of the physiology graduate student and, since the discipline...

BACKGROUND Matriculation of international students to United States' (US) medical schools has not mirrored the remarkable influx of these students to other US institutions of higher education. METHODS While these students' numbers are on the rise, the visibility for their unique issues remains largely ignored in the medical literature. RESULTS These students are disadvantaged in the medical...