During my fellowship training in critical care, my then 4-year-old daughter drew my picture in shabby scrubs with two dark circles around my eyes, and named it " mommy panda " depicting my sleep deprived and exhausted existence. At that time, I was spending about two and a half hours commuting, braving Atlanta traffic, while my husband pursued his PhD training in New York. My situation as an an...

PURPOSE There is little evidence to document patient satisfaction with follow-up care provided by family physicians (FPs)/general practitioners (GPs) to breast cancer patients. We aimed to identify determinants of satisfaction with such care in low-income, medically underserved women with breast cancer. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study of 145 women who reported receiving follow-up car...

A contemporary goal in both ecology and evolutionary biology is to develop theory that transcends the boundary between the two disciplines, to understand phenomena that cannot be explained by either field in isolation. This is challenging because macroevolution typically uses lineage-based models, whereas ecology often focuses on individual organisms. Here, we develop a new parsimonious individ...

Background: Despite the increasing interest in medical education in the German-speaking countries, there is currently no information Sören Huwendiek Eckhart G. Hahn available on the challenges which medical educators face. To address Burkhard Tönshoff this problem, we carried out a web-based survey among the members Christoph Nikendei of the Association for Medical Education (Gesellschaft für m...

The aim of this project was to pilot plagiarism detection software and online marking, evaluating its use with staff on a first year undergraduate module within the psychology department at a UK university. One hundred and sixty undergraduate psychology students submitted three assignments via Turnitin, and staff used the software to check for instances of academic misconduct and marked submiss...