OBJECTIVE This study examines various options that a faculty member might exercise to achieve work-family balance in academic medicine and their consequences for academic advancement. METHOD Three data sets were analyzed: an anonymous web-administered survey of part-time tenure track-eligible University of Illinois College of Medicine (UI-COM) faculty members conducted in 2003; exogenous data...

Najeh Bouraoui: PhD student at the Faculty of Economics and Management of Sfax in Tunisia. Member of a Research Unit on Management Studies Amira Bouhamed: PhD student at the Faculty of Economics and Management of Sfax in Tunisia. Member of a Research Unit on Management Studies Jamil Chaabouni: Professor in Management Studies at the Faculty of Economics and Management of Sfax in Tunisia. Leader ...

INTRODUCTION Students' clinical, communication, and professionalism skills are best assessed when faculty directly observe clinical encounters with patients. Prior to 2009, third-year medical students at our institution had one observed clinical encounter by clinic-based faculty during a required internal medicine clerkship. These observations averaged 45 minutes, feedback was not standardized,...

Jim Smiley (1907-1988) was the most important and eminent occupational medical specialist Ulster has produced this century, perhaps ever. From a provincial base as industrial medical officer to several Belfast companies, most notably Short Bros. and Harland, and as Appointed Factory Doctor for East Belfast, he scaled every peak the practising specialty had to offer in these islands, as well as ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study investigated factors related to declining interest in family medicine by US medical school graduates. METHODS A questionnaire was sent to all physicians who graduated from 24 medical schools in 1997-1999, and who entered a family medicine residency, and a randomly selected equal number of graduates from the same years who entered other primary care special...

Medical genetics studies in the Amish began in 1962, when two events sparked the interest of one of the authors (V.A.M.). As a member of the faculty committee advising the Johns Hopkins Press, he was asked to read the manuscript Amish Society submitted by John Hostetler. It was apparent that many characteristics of Amish society made it an excellent community in which to study genetic traits, p...

background and purpose:the tasks of faculty members and their weights particularly in integrated system of iran are not well defined. methods:to address this issue, in a comprehensive project, we explored all rules, regulations and officialdocuments in national level, collected the opinion of experts around the country using in-depthinterview and defined the weights of main tasks in a group dis...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of professionalism scenarios on the medical school admissions process from applicant and faculty perspectives. Specifically, do completing professionalism scenarios as part of the medical school interview process have an impact on both the interviewee's and the faculty's perception of the process and outcome? METHOD Ninety-one facu...

BACKGROUND Faculty turnover threatens the research, teaching and clinical missions of medical schools. We measured early attrition among newly-hired medical school faculty and identified personal and institutional factors associated with early attrition. METHODS This retrospective cohort study identified faculty hired during the 2005-2006 academic year at one school. Three-year attrition rate...