Introduction. The professional education can be a very stressful experience. The high level of stress often leads to disruptions in physiological and psychological health. Although a moderate degree of stress can promote students’ creativity and achievement, the intense pressures and relentless demands of medical education may destroy personal relationship and ultimately, affect patient care. ...

The purpose of this study was to determine the contribution of academic vocabulary knowledge and academic listening self-concept to the academic listening comprehension of Iranian Engineering students. The participants of this study were 147 undergraduate students at the Iran University of Science and Technology. A revised version of the academic self-concept questionnaire developed by Liu and ...

The School Situation Survey (SSS) is a 34-item instrument designed to assess “school-related student stress” in grades 4 through 12. Comprising seven scales, the SSS provides separate scores for four “sources” of stress: Teacher Interactions (“students’ perceptions of their teachers’ attitudes toward them”), Academic Stress (“situations that relate to academic performance or achievement”), Peer...

This exploratory qualitative study investigated how doctoral students reported their personal and professional interaction experiences that they believed might facilitate or impede their academic pursuits in biomedical research. We collected 19 in-depth interviews with doctoral students in biomedical research from eight universities, and we based our qualitative analytic approach on the work of...

This literature review assesses indicators derived from social media sources, including both general and academic sites. Such indicators have been termed altmetrics, influmetrics, social media metrics, or a type of webometric, and have recently been commercialised by a number of companies and employed by some publishers and university administrators. The social media metrics analysed here deriv...

No sentient gastroenterologist has missed the fact that over the past 3 years, Medicare revalued our endoscopy codes. The impact of those reimbursement changes has been felt both by community gastroenterologists and those practicing in academic centers. Impacts are different, however, because funds flow, opportunities for ancillary income and compensation formulas all are different for private ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine how individuals providing reference letters framed the task and the specific attributes used to describe applicants. METHODS Participants were letter writers (N=106) for accepted or alternate applicants. Participants received a brief anonymous survey and a return postcard to release their past letter for content analysis. RESULTS Seventy...

Wikis are becoming popular with business and academia as a way to harvest, archive, and manage knowledge. One of the most popular and well-known wikis is Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia started by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger in 2001. Since its inception, much has been written (both pro and con) about Wikipedia; however, Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites on the Internet today. As it...

This article describes a study that examined the lifelong learning of information systems academics in relation to their normal work. It begins by considering the concept of lifelong learning, its relationship to real-life learning and that lifelong learning should encompass the whole spectrum of formal, non-formal and informal learning. Most world governments had recognised the importance of s...