O ccupational therapy faculty members who seek tenure at research universities rarely focus on one role at a time. It is the nature of the faculty appointment to produce in a minimum of three areas-teaching, research, and service, which includes practice. Outstanding performance in these areas has served as the cri terion for the awarding of tenure, an important career goal for most academician...

BACKGROUND Underrepresentation of highly ranked women in academic surgery is recognized. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to examine whether sex differences exist in faculty representation, academic rank, and publication productivity among colorectal faculty in fellowship programs. DESIGN American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons fellowship program faculty were identified. Bibliometric data ...

The purpose of this study was to determine the contribution of academic vocabulary knowledge and academic listening self-concept to the academic listening comprehension of Iranian Engineering students. The participants of this study were 147 undergraduate students at the Iran University of Science and Technology. A revised version of the academic self-concept questionnaire developed by Liu and ...

PURPOSE To describe the utility of school-wide use of mission-based reporting (MBR) for medical school deans and department chairs. METHOD All faculty members in the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine reported their clinical, creative, teaching, and service activities for 2000-2001 to the MBR system. The authors report on school-wide and department MBR profiles, and profiles ...

In the present study, Kabir kuh Section, related to the Seymareh or Lopha Limestone member (Gurpi Formation) have been Selected. The member has yielded a rich echinoid fauna and 21 species of Echinoid belonging to 14 genera are recognized and described. The Kabir Kuh section yielded two regular echinoid taxa: Salenia nutrix and Goniopygus superbus, one holectypoid taxa: Coptodiscus noemiae, two...

background and objectives: brucellosis is a zoonotic disease and it’s still endemic in iran. there are some reports regarding brucellosis infection in family members sharing same risk factors and remain unrecognized. however , few studies on the importance of family screening are available. we aimed to screen household members of index cases with acute brucellosis for detecting additional unrec...

background: desirable health is impossible without good nutrition, and allah has addressed us on eating foods in 118 verses. objectives: this study aimed to describe the medical university faculty members’ perceptions of nutritional health in the quran, revealing the important role of faculty members. materials and methods: this qualitative study was conducted with a phenomenological approach. ...