PHYSICIAN LEADERSHIP IS A KEY DRIVER toward a sustainable value-based health care delivery system. After all, physicians control 80 percent of health care dollars, 90 percent of clinical care orders, and play a key role in patients’ perception of care and team member participation. Accelerating the pace of physician leadership development is best done through a blended learning approach. This a...

In the present research, we evaluated the effectiveness of a multi-year professional development program in mathematics for elementary teachers. Each year the program focused on a different domain of mathematics. We found the program increased teachers’ knowledge of (a) number and operations, (b) measurement and geometry, and (c) probability and statistics. We also examined the relation between...

This article examines the dissemination and uptake of health research into policy and program delivery in four developing countries. In-depth interviews were conducted with health researchers, policymakers, and practitioners at both the local and national level. The study highlights the similarities across the study countries in the barriers to effective dissemination and uptake of research res...

Hope College is an undergraduate liberal arts college with an enrollment of approximately 3,000 students. In the spring of 2005, we began to offer an interdisciplinary neuroscience minor program that is open to all students. The objective of this program is to introduce students to the field of neuroscience, and to do so in such a way as to broaden students' disciplinary perspectives, enhance c...

Home healthcare nurses often work in isolation and rarely have the opportunity to meet or congregate in one location. As a result, nurse leaders must possess unique leadership skills to supervise and manage a dispersed employee base from a distance. The nature of this dispersed workforce creates an additional challenge in the ability to identify future leaders, facilitate leadership capacity, a...

This is the first in a 3-part series describing an executive master of science in nursing program. Part 1 describes program development built on the American Organization of Nurse Executives' competencies and distinct features of the students' online and on-site learning experiences. Part 2 will discuss how the 14 Forces of Magnetism are integrated across the curriculum and the unique criteria ...

The clinical development process can be viewed as a succession of trials, possibly overlapping in calendar time. The design of each trial may be influenced by results from previous studies and other currently proceeding trials, as well as by external information. Results from all of these trials must be considered together in order to assess the efficacy and safety of the proposed new treatment...

This paper outines the requirements for a series of tools to develop eectively systems in an object-oriented manner. It points out that reusability requires a certain change in philosophy and methodology for program development.

A needs assessment was conducted regarding an interprofessional faculty development program for promoting excellence in education. Nursing and medical faculty and administrators (N = 156) were surveyed about perceived need, program curriculum, and delivery. The results indicated strong support for the program, particularly related to teaching/learning strategies, leadership, and scholarship. Nu...