Introduction: In order to benefit from the advantages of essay exams, one must be sure to reliably judge students based on essay test scores. The aim of this study was to examine the correlation of scores in the essay and MCQ parts of renal pathophysiology final exam and students’ views about the effect of the type of test on their study. Methods: This descriptive correlational survey wa...

In the past few years, policymakers, academic commentators, consumer advocates, civil liberties groups, and user communities have expressed grave concerns about the steadily increasing levels of enforcement of intellectual property rights. Taking note of these concerns, this Occasional Paper brings together two recently published essays discussing the ongoing efforts to strengthen intellectual ...

The applicant-to-acceptance ratio in the nation's 127 medical schools has slowly but steadily declined during the last decade to 1.7:1 (60.5% acceptance rate) for the 1987-1988 academic year. The 28,123 applicants in this academic year represent a decrease of 3200 applicants from the previous year. The decline in the number of applicants is even more striking because it occurred despite the wel...

The academic discipline of social medicine has struggled to fi nd a precise definition for over a century. This struggle is exemplified by the classic social medicine course book, The Social Medicine Reader, edited by faculty from the Department of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, which offers an expansive view of social medicine’s concerns [1–4]. These concerns...

This academic essay is an assessed coursework in Teaching English Professional and Academic settings (TEPAS) for taught postgraduate School of Languages, Linguistics, Queen Mary University London (2018). In Purposes (EAP) or Specific (ESP) settings, teaching reading writing integration considered to encourage ‘authenticity’. To discuss above statements a critical way, this first introduces the ...