OBJECTIVE Being of rural origin is one of the few predictors of whether medical students choose either family or rural practice as a career. This study investigates what proportion of applicants are of rural origin, what their grades are, and whether they are accepted. DESIGN Mailed survey using the postal codes of Ontario medical school applicants' residences when they attended secondary sch...

BACKGROUND Households are one of the major settings of influenza transmission in the community and transmission is frequently initiated by school-aged children. We surveyed households with primary school (PS) and/ or junior high school (JH) children for the 2012-13 influenza season in Odate, Japan then characterized the epidemiology of influenza household transmission as well as estimated the s...

AIMS To investigate the hypothesis that changes in cannabis prevalence among Dutch secondary school students (aged 12-17 years) were paralleled by shifts in the age of first cannabis use. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS Data were derived from five waves (1988, 1992, 1996, 1999 and 2003) of the Dutch National School Survey on Substance Use, a nationally representative cross-sectional study, with a tot...

An attempt was made to establish the correlation between the time of reaching sexual maturity and the level of psychical development. The material consisted of data obtained from schoolgirls of final classes of 6 secondary schools. In a questionnaire, the girls provided retrospective data concerning the age of menarche, and replied to questions being the basis for sexual maturity evaluation.

NURSES ARE being urged to back a campaign to make first aid compulsory in all state-funded secondary schools.

to a weekly periodical during 1953-1955 and used the vivid material to highlight their problems. Self-selected material, it is true, because they wrote voluntarily, but instead of revealing irresponsible rebels, the main impression is one of uncertainty and a longing to be accepted both socially and in the family. Many mothers and fathers must be surprised to find that 74% express a wish to sha...

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Valid measurement of how students' experiences in secondary school classrooms lead to gains in learning requires a developmental approach to conceptualizing classroom processes. This article presents a potentially useful theoretical model, the Teaching Through Interactions framework, which posits teacher-student interactions as a central driver for student learning and that teacher-student inte...