OBJECTIVE To survey Internal Medicine trainees' future career choices and factors influencing their decision-making. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, from November 2006 to January 2007. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A standard questionnaire was administered to the residents and Interns working in the Department of Internal Medicin...

Existing literature analyzing the choice of received long-term care by frail elderly (65+ years) predominantly focuses on physical and psychological conditions of elderly people as factors that infl uence the decision for a particular type of care. Until now, however, the regional in-patient long-term care supply has been neglected as infl uential factor in the individual’s decision-making proc...

CONTEXT To help meet rural Appalachian needs, and with initial support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, East Tennessee State University partnered with 2 counties to implement a health curriculum for nursing, public health, and medical students in a rural setting. The Community Partnerships Program 3-year longitudinal curriculum included theoretical, conceptual, and practice elements of the 3 d...

BACKGROUND Most developing countries face important challenges regarding the quality of health care, and there is a growing consensus that health workers play a key role in this process. Our understanding as to what are the key institutional challenges in human resources, and their underlying driving forces, is more limited. A conceptual framework that structures existing insights and provides ...

Existing literature analyzing the choice of received long-term care by frail elderly (65+ years) predominantly focuses on physical and psychological conditions of elderly people as factors that infl uence the decision for a particular type of care. Until now, however, the regional in-patient long-term care supply has been neglected as infl uential factor in the individual’s decision-making proc...

This paper introduces a special issue of Language, Cognition and Neuroscience dedicated to Production of Referring Expressions: Models and Empirical Data, focusing on models of reference production that make empirically testable predictions, as well as on empirical work that can inform the design of such models. In addition to introducing the volume, this paper also gives an overview of recent ...

PURPOSE MD-PhD training programs provide an integrated approach for training physician-scientists. The goal of this study was to characterize the career path taken by MD-PhD program alumni during the past 40 years and identify trends that affect their success. METHOD In 2007-early 2008, 24 programs enrolling 43% of current trainees and representing half of the National Institutes of Health-fu...