With all due respect to our " colleagues, " such as Dr Shore (2010;110[5]:299-300), who seem to be determined to change our DO degree for all manner of rea-sons—none of which have any serious rationale behind them—I would offer the following two thoughts: (1) federal funding of medicals schools in the future will have nothing to do with degrees, but rather with perceived need and available fund...

INTRODUCTION Since the 1950s, sexual health education in medical schools has been evaluated and reported upon, but there has never been an assessment published about sexual health curricula in U.S. physician assistant (PA) programs. AIM The aim of this study was to gain better understanding of how PA programs cover sexual health topics. METHODS Between January and March 2014, 181 accredited...

nurse practitioner, clinical specialty, and nurse administrator; and a doctoral degree in nursing (PhD). Certificates in spirituality and spiritual care, informatics, and nutritional counseling; and an accredited dietetic internship program are available along with several on-line specialty courses. Loyola University Chicago is one of 28 Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States. Ov...

OBJECTIVES Multi-institutional research increases the generalizability of research findings. However, little is known about characteristics of collaborations across institutions in health sciences education research. Using a systematic review process, the authors describe characteristics of published, peer-reviewed multi-institutional health sciences education research to inform educators who a...

We analyse how progressive taxation and education subsidies affect schooling decisions when the returns to education are stochastic. We use the theory of real options to solve the problem of education choice in a dynamic stochastic model. We show that education attainment will be an increasing function of the risk associated with education. Furthermore, this result holds regardless of the degre...

Adequacy of educational background to professional situation is a subject that emerges whenever the theme of graduates’ professional transition is approached. This paper intends to analyze the professional situations of Portuguese higher education degree holders five years after they attained their degree, in light of questions related to professional transition. We examine the relationship bet...