Gunnar Blix (Figure 1) was born in Lund in 1894. He was the son of a famous physiologist, Magnus Blix. After medical school, he started in research and defended his thesis entitled Studies on Diabetic Lipaemia in 1925 at the University of Lund. Previously he had been employed by the university as a research fellow in anatomy and medical chemistry, and for shorter periods of time he also practis...

Jeff Lichtman Harvard University Jeff Lichtman is the Jeremy R. Knowles Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and the Ramón y Cajal Professor of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard. His research interest is neural developmental and particularly the way in which early experience alters nervous system organization in long-lasting ways. He has participated in the development of metho...

conclusions qwl has an important impact on attracting and retaining employees, thus, it is necessary to pay greater attention to the faculty members’ qwl. materials and methods this cross-sectional study was conducted on 65 faculty members of the kashan university of medical sciences during 2012. faculty members were randomly selected from a list that was prepared through the kashan university ...

this study deals with the degree of faculty members' teaching load, its relationship with their specialties and also the relationship between the teachers' satisfaction and the quantity and quality of their academic responsibilities based on three variables of faculty, gender, and academic rank. this study is both qualitative and quantitative. the required data were gathered through the study o...

Constructing quality assessment rubrics can be challenging, especially when they are used for integrated, group-centered, applied learning. We describe a collaborative assessment task in which groups of second-year dentistry students developed a complex concept map. In groups of four, the students were given a written, simulated, medical history of a patient and required to construct a concept ...

Introduction. Measuring is the foundation of evaluation. The main way for evaluation of education progression is testing the exams and every test must have identity, validity, reliability and be easy to perform. More precision to preparing the exams can improve its validity. There are different ways for measuring validity and reliability in testing. Do the faculty members know about these metho...