Background: The Kidney Research Scientist Core Education and National Training (KRESCENT) Program was launched in 2005 to enhance kidney research capacity in Canada and foster knowledge translation across the 4 themes of health research. Objective: To evaluate the impact of KRESCENT on its major objectives and on the careers of trainees after its first 10 years. Methods: An online survey of tra...

F oster poses a fascinating dilemma when he asks the question: Would you admit your mother to the residency service? (1) It is fascinating not least because it causes us to reflect on our attitudes to patient centredness. Put bluntly, if we would not admit a family member to the residency service, then why would we admit any patient to this service? Foster’s perspective is also telling when he ...

Let V be a vertex operator algebra satisfying certain reductivity and finiteness conditions such that CV , the category of V -modules, is a modular tensor category. We study open-closed field algebras over V equipped with nondegenerate invariant bilinear forms for both open and closed sectors. We show that they give algebras over certain C-extension of the so-called Swiss-cheese partial diopera...

The growth of Brazilian scientific production in recent years is remarkable, which motivates an investigation on the factors, inside and outside the country, that helped shape this wealthy research environment. This article provides a thorough analysis of the education of researchers that constitute the main Brazilian research groups, using data on about 6,000 researchers involved in the countr...

Despite the importance of teaching, research, and related activities to the mission of academic medical departments, no useful and widely agreed-on metrics exist with which to assess the value of individual faculty members' contributions in these areas. Taking the concept of the clinical relative value unit (RVU) as a model, the authors describe the development of an academic RVU (aRVU) system ...

2006–Present Associate professor in Pharmacology Department of Drug Sciences and Health Products (ex Faculty of Pharmacy) at the University of Messina, Viale Annunziata, 98168, Messina, (Italy) Research activity; reader in Pharmacology, Toxicology, Pharmacoeconomy and Drug Surveillance and Food Toxicology (University of Messina); reader in Pharmacokynetics at the Postgraduate School of Hospital...