of existing good practices and their relevance and effectiveness, particularly in a local setting, would be important enablers, whereas unavailability of trained manpower and lack of understanding of HT processes and their usefulness and impact on improvement of health care would be major barriers for future activities.4 They felt the need for health professionals, health managers from departme...

Clear rules that encourage meritocracy, and that include the evaluation of scholarly productivity, are slowly and unevenly taking hold in academic life in Latin America. While some countries have official rankings of political science departments, others rely only on informal assessments. In a third set of countries, we cannot even consider the competition because the market is dominated by a s...

ealthcare in the US is in the midst of dramatic reform driven by unsustainable healthcare costs. To maintain the traditional missions of clinical care, research, and education, academic pediatric departments must plan for change. Yet, planning is difficult because along with declining clinical revenue there is an increasing burden of chronic disease, a changing workforce, and decreasing Federal...

In the interest of reinforcing the relationship between academic research and professional practice, certain postgraduate design courses can serve as research think tanks for cultural institutions or projects which may not have access to inhouse research departments, either for organic reasons or as a result of limited resources. This approach, which we have been implementing since 2006 within ...

To the Editor: Todd and Fleisher editorialize that the field of anesthesia has an upcoming problem of few anesthesia trainees choosing to pursue academic careers.1 They admonish that this trend would result in a slowing of creativity and creation that would ultimately lead to “professional extinction.” When commenting on the recent study by Sakai et al.,2 they accurately suggest that two proble...

OBJECTIVE There is a chronic gender imbalance in academic radiology departments, which could limit our field's ability to foster creative, productive, and innovative environments. We recently reviewed 51 major academic radiology faculty rosters and discovered that 34% of academic radiologists are women, but only 25% of vice chairs and section chiefs and 9% of department chairs are women. CONC...

We examined whether nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is associated with academic performance in college freshmen, using census-based web surveys (N = 7,527; response = 65.4%). NSSI was assessed with items from the Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors Interview and subsequently linked with the administratively recorded academic year percentage (AYP). Freshmen with lifetime and 12-month NSSI showe...

In this session, panelist members of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine (CAHCIM) share what has been successful in the implementation of integrative healthcare across different health systems and academic health centers. Some use what may be termed a “vertical” model, or one that is a stand-alone entity that operates outside of the health system or academic healt...

The project proposes the application of HLT to an important problem such as the measurement of the academic visibility in the web, giving the basis of a quantitative evaluation of the universities departments’ commitment in the public access to their information. Web indicators (Cybermetrics) must be developed and applied to the study of the academic websites visibility, with special focus on t...