Academic Medicine, Vol. 89, No. 4 / April 2014 530 has limited benefits and potential harms for the receiving community abroad. As these short-term models become popular, our research group believes that standards are needed to shift this “balance of benefits” more towards the intended service recipients (i.e., the community abroad) while retaining benefits derived by learners and sending insti...

iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I wish to thank and acknowledge my committee for their diligent coaching through the development of this dissertation. These ladies and gentlemen put in countless hours reviewing and counseling me with regards to theory building, methodology, and implications of the study. Their expertise and support made it possible for this manuscript to obtain acceptable academic standards.

We describe an approach to reduce the effort involved in disseminating prototype academic (command-line) tools for wider use and inspection. This helps in preserving the effort involved in the development of such tools, and in raising the standards in computer science for conducting repeatable experiments. For this purpose we propose a light-weight, flexible framework to make such tools availab...

Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) has prompted renewed efforts to hold schools and students accountable for meeting high academic standards. At the same time, Congress has been debating the reauthorization of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which has heightened concerns that NCLB will indeed “leave behind” many students who have disabilities or other barriers to learning. Thi...

With Chinese economic reformation development, more and more Multinational Corporation has invested in China. Multinational Corporation has improved the Chinese economic standards, but it has also brought negative effects, especially the changing prices in the multinational corporation. This academic paper has researched its reason, purpose and negative effect and how to take preventive measures.

Objectives: The educational activities initiated by the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) have had global impacts and influenced national societies and local academic programs in the field of Biomedical and Health Informatics (BMHI). After the successful publication and dissemination of its educational recommendations, IMIA launched an accreditation procedure for educational ...

the present article reviews the significance of accreditation standards while emphasizing the necessity of implementation of such standards by basic medical science council, with an eye on such international standards as those published by wfme. this review article had to decide on the key words and expressions, data bases, to review relevant literature, review higher and medical education jour...

This project originates from the French scientific community. All journals follow academic and scholarly standards in the fields of history, politics, geography, sociology, anthropology, psychology, etc. They are owned by learned societies, major research centres, university institutes or private publishers. Most of them receive funds from the CNRS, the CNL (Centre national du livre in France) ...

A common format simplifies exchange of secondary school academic transcripts via electronic mail. Extant standards are applied to prevent unauthorized alteration of transcript content and to deliver transcripts directly and securely from each student to his or her chosen recipients. By eliminating third-party intervention and surveillance, the defined protocol better protects student privacy an...