The purpose of this study was to examine gender differences and other predictors of postgraduate plans among U.S. dental students. A national sample of dental students was surveyed in their first and fourth years of dental school. Female first-year students were less likely than male students to express interest in specialization in endodontics and oral surgery. Fourth-year students who had a d...

1MD; Teacher, Health and Development Post-graduation Program, Central-West Region, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, MS, Brazil 2PhD; Teacher, Department of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, MS, Brazil 3Pharmacist; Postgraduate student, Department of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, MS, Brazil 4Pharmacist; Post...

This study aims to determine the prevalence and correlates of information seeking anxiety among a group of postgraduate students at a research-intensive university in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The 38-item Information Seeking Anxiety Scale was administered to 375 postgraduate students drawn from a population of 11000 using stratified random sampling method. Results of the study revealed that infor...

It is generally accepted that psychiatry is moving away from mental hospitals. The practice of psychiatry is more community based and community oriented. This shift is also evident in the field of psychiatric training and research both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. About 70% of the medical schools of our country have psychiatric departments and provide some form of education in psyc...

Graduating medical students often feel relieved that the strenuous learning during undergraduatemedical education has ended when they eventually hold the license to practice medicine in their hands – just to discover that learning has only just begun when they enter postgraduate training. For many graduates the transition from the final year of undergraduate education to the first year of postg...

WHILST in Northern Ireland arrangements for postgraduate training were developed through the Postgraduate Board of the Medical Faculty as early as 1965, a great stimulus to further development in postgraduate training was given by the publication of the Report of the Royal Commission on Medical education. Refresher courses for general practitioners were already well developed, and training comm...

With the development of society, high-level applied students have been an urgent demand and the quality of entrepreneurial education of postgraduate has attracted more and more attention. Based on the requirements of universities society and enterprise for the comprehensive ability of postgraduate, we proposed the evaluation index system and used AHP-fuzzy comprehensive evaluation approach, whi...

Soft error could cause digital circuit to temporary malfunction. In an asynchronous circuit, the temporary malfunction of the control circuit will cause deadlock; a state where the system will be disabled indefinitely until the system has been reset or the error is filtered or corrected from the system. C-element is most commonly found in control circuit. We have studied the vulnerability of si...

In contrast to the United Kingdom, postgraduate medical training in Canada is entirely confined to university settings although it was not always so. Excellent reviews of the historical background have been published by Shephard' and Ruedy.2 Specialty intern and residency (the term used in North America for housestaff and registrar positions) training in Canada first became popular in the 1920s...

critical thinking is considered important in the field of education due to its possible effects on language learning. therefore, the reasons behind the success and failure of language learners have provoked researchers to examine different aspects of the language learning process. moreover, improving learners’ critical thinking ability in the course of learning will enable students to rely on t...