BACKGROUND Nearly 18,000 candidates securing 60% and above marks in Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC) examination contest for admission in Medical Colleges, in Punjab, Pakistan by sitting in the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) each summer. This cross-sectional study was conducted to identify patterns related to demographic, economic and educational backgrounds, over a two-year-pe...

In British Columbia, “we found out that most doctors don’t really know the rules of the road when prescribing for someone with chronic non-cancer pain,” says Dr. Robert Vroom, deputy registrar for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC. “Why should we be punishing our doctors for something they don’t know? This is one of those big gaps in their education and we thought we should do someth...

We liave above referred to the small beginnings of the hospitals and of medical teaching in India. To show what has been accomplished under the auspices and by means of officers of the Indian Medical Service in India, we may make the following extracts from the last report of the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, Sir Pardey Lukis, m.d., k.c.s.i., recently published. The first ...

The article is aimed at discussing China's colleges and universities of the personnel system reform, from the aspects such as the nature of competition, the characteristics of modern management, the nature of human resources management and colleges and universities’ morality, is to prove that the universities carry out full internal competition for posts is wrong, and suggest to use the system ...

Karen Jones, MApStat, senior data analyst, Workforce Studies, Association of American Medical Colleges Community Health Workers: An Underused Resource, Rediscovered Monica Whatley, MS, data marketing analyst, Southern Poverty Law Center; Clese Erikson, MPAff, deputy director, Health Workforce Research Center, The George Washington University; Shana Sandberg, PhD, research scientist, National Co...

They mention a 'rich socilogical literature' but it is not cited. One very important literature is the book by Collins and Evans on 'rethinking expertise' and the problem of demarcation they pose at the end of their book. Specialist expertise is all about marking new turf and creating new fences by exams and colleges. This is one lever they do not mention in the 7 strategies. Colleges create sp...

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Honors colleges offer the opportunity for faculty to teach small classes to motivated, academically gifted students. One possible benefit offered by teaching honors courses is the opportunity to experiment with new teaching approaches. Thus, one goal of honors colleges is to act as a “lab” for developing novel educational approaches that can be applied across the university. Here I report on th...

 Abstract—In today’s era position of any outdoor element can be determine precisely using GPS. But in the indoor environment like house, colleges, underground construction site GPS does not work well. As now-a-days all house and colleges are equipped with Wi-Fi access point, precise position can be found out using Wi-Fi using method name Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI). A series of e...

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