Academic staff can be notoriously difficult creatures, particularly when others might seek to intervene in their teaching. How then do we go about something as threatening as the overhaul of an entire undergraduate curriculum within a Faculty? Change management literature provides some direction for dealing with such a challenge and leading staff through the development and implementation issue...

The role of three sources of social support (family as kin, co-workers as insiders, and supervisors as outsiders) on the emotional exhaustion were analyzed in a sample of 210 nurses at a general hospital in Seville, a city in the south of Spain. They were given an adaptation of the Nursing Stress Scale, (Gray-Toff & Anderson 1981), the Multidimensional Support Scale (Winefield, Winefield, Tigge...

this paper studies effective organizational factors in creating cynicism. at first, we studied the literature of organizational cynicism, dimensions and components of cynicism at different approaches. then among them six component include: perception of organizational support, perception of executives’ compensation, perception of organizational performance, perception of distributive justice an...

OBJECTIVES We examined the cost-effectiveness of an intervention to reduce coronary heart disease (CHD) risk and blood pressure in African Americans. STUDY DESIGN Stochastic cost-effectiveness analysis alongside a clinical trial, augmented by a Markov model of lifetime cost-effectiveness. METHODS In 2 urban academic primary care practices, we randomized African American patients with uncont...

Background: Advancement in science and technology is one of the axioms of the general policies stated by the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Along with the Development and Innovation Program in Medical Education, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, as one of the country’s higher education institutions in healthcare, has identified its peculiar potentials for...