African Americans remain substantially less likely than other physicians to hold academic appointments. The roots of these disparities stem from different extrinsic and intrinsic forces that guide career development. Efforts to ameliorate African American underrepresentation in academic medicine have traditionally focused on modifying structural and extrinsic barriers through undergraduate and ...

A cross-sectional study of a cohort of 197 clinical dental students in the four accredited dental schools in Nigeria was conducted to determine the sociodemographic characteristics of these dental students and their motives for the choice of dentistry. The results indicate that the number of female dental students in Nigeria is increasing, which reflects a trend well established in virtually al...

model of the socialization process, in which students acquire the attitudes, skills, and knowledge of the profession which they are about to. enter. This book reflects these different approaches to medical education, as it includes papers ranging from the effects of stress on physicians to an assessment of the government's influence on residents' career choices. Until the 1970s, the focus of re...

Korean J Med Educ 2017 Jun; 29(2): 117-119. https://doi.org/10.3946/kjme.2017.59 eISSN: 2005-7288 C The Korean Society of Medical Education. All rights reserved. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and r...

Studying in a medical school is stressful because students not only have to face enormous pressure to attain good grades but also deal with death and sufferings. Estimated prevalence of emotional disturbance due to stress in medical students is found to be quite high [1]. Stress in a medical school is highest at undergraduate levels [2,3] and continues throughout the training period [4]. It not...

This report summarizes the development of my research programs and teaching through my career to date, as required by Duke University for its tenure decision process. Section 1 gives a research overview, and Section 2 summarizes the contributions, impacts, and future directions of my research in experimental operating systems, high-speed networking, network storage, and Internet service deliver...

conclusions the findings showed that personal, interpersonal, and functional skills can facilitate nurses’ career advancement. the effects of these skills on career advancement depend on a variety of conditions that require further studies. results the three themes extracted from the data included interpersonal capabilities, competency for career success, and personal capacities. the results sh...

The majority of research on homeless veterans has been devoted to issues of mental health, substance abuse, and crime. Little, if any, has analyzed the career values and goals that may affect homeless veterans. Yet the ways in which the homeless think and the attitudes, ethics, and perspectives they harbor have long been considered pivotal contributors to homeless people’s alienation from mains...

BACKGROUND Despite an increasing concern about a future shortage of medical educators, little published research exists on career choices in medical education nor the impact of specific training posts in medical education (e.g. academic registrar/resident positions). Medical educators at all levels, from both medical and non-medical backgrounds, are crucial for the training of medical students,...