BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Cultural competency education is an important and required part of undergraduate medical education. The objective of this study was to evaluate whether an online cross-cultural communication module could increase student use of cross-cultural communication questions that assess the patient's definition of the problem, the way the problem affects their life, their conce...

When our school organized the curriculum around a core set of medical student competencies in 2004, it was clear that more numerous and more varied student assessments were needed. To oversee a systematic approach to the assessment of medical student competencies, the Office of College-wide Assessment was established, led by the Associate Dean of College-wide Assessment. The mission of the Offi...

An ordered biclique partition of the complete graph Kn on n vertices is a collection of bicliques (i.e., complete bipartite graphs) such that (i) every edge of Kn is covered by at least one and at most two bicliques in the collection, and (ii) if an edge e is covered by two bicliques then each endpoint of e is in the first class in one of these bicliques and in the second class in other one. We...

River morphological quality assessment, derived from quantification of human pressures as well as river channel alteration, is a demand of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) in terms of integrating hydromorphological elements in defining ecological status. Our study’s aim is to contribute to the hydromorphological evaluation by proposing indicators and separating classes, based on a revisited ...

Born in Edinburgh on the 1st February 1821, he was educated at the High School of that city. It was at the University of Edinburgh that he received his medical education. His early youth gave promise of his future ; for his assiduity, his love of work, during this period of his life, were such as to augur well for that future. He graduated in 1841 with first-class honours; his Thesis on " The P...

The right–handed neutrino mass matrix that is central to the understanding of small neutrino masses via the seesaw mechanism can arise either (i) from renormalizable operators or (ii) from nonrenormalizable or superrenormalizable operators, depending on the symmetries and the Higgs content of the theory beyond the Standard Model. In this paper, we study lepton flavor violating (LFV) effects in ...

Student mentorship is a dynamic reciprocal relationship between an advanced career incumbent (mentor) and a beginner (protégé), aimed at promoting the development of both.1 The main goals of any mentorship program include career counselling and development alongside professional enhancement.2-4 While numerous studies highlight the importance of a formal mentorship program at the undergraduate l...

Given that understanding the sociocultural dimensions underlying a patient's health values, beliefs, and behaviors is critical to a successful clinical encounter, cross-cultural curricula have been incorporated into undergraduate medical education. The goal of these curricula is to prepare students to care for patients from diverse social and cultural backgrounds, and to recognize and appropria...

Two classes of partially known systems are considered in this note; both of them have a fractional parameterization of the unknowns. The first class consists of nonlinear systems whose uncertainties are bounded by a function of fractional parameterization, and the second class compromises those systems whose unknown dynamics can directly, but nonlinearly, be parameterized. It is shown that adap...

Medical education and the process of teaching and learning, respectively, are constantly changing. This is induced by the pace at which knowledge, teaching methodology and its related tools are updated, the use of simulation, virtual depiction and the use of static and/or dynamic images. In this respect, X-ray images have been used in the understanding of macroanatomy ever since the beginning o...