OBJECTIVE The aim of this paper was to review traditional approaches to habilitation of unilateral hearing losses as well as new research concerning management of unilateral hearing loss. DATA SOURCES Literature review/systematic review. REVIEW METHODS A PubMed search was performed for articles pertaining to unilateral hearing loss and academic loss and academic performance. Articles ranged...

INTRODUCTION Scholarship is an essential part of academic success. Junior faculty members are often unfamiliar with the grounding literature that defines educational scholarship. In this article, the authors aim to summarize five key papers which outline education scholarship in the setting of academic contributions for emerging clinician educators. METHODS The authors conducted a consensus-b...

Today’s academic libraries according to Simmonds and Andaleeb (1998) are confronted with challenges on several fronts, on-line information providers, multi-media products, document delivery services and other competitive sources of information as well as the evolving technological innovations which are apparently threatening their role and even their very survival. Academic libraries may have t...

O ver the years, academic institutions, including dental schools, have become increasingly interested and involved in developing interactions with industry. The nature of such interactions has been evolving over many years, and there is a clear contrast between attitudes prevalent at the time I first entered dental school in the mid-1960s and the present. In the “early days,” dental academician...

Purpose – As a response to the claims that much of management academic research is irrelevant from the practitioner perspective, this study aims to empirically investigate whether books serve as effective knowledge distribution agents and whether peer-reviewed publications are used in the development of book content. Design/methodology/approach – A citation analysis of 40 authored and nine edit...

BACKGROUND The efficacy of academic detailing in changing physicians' knowledge and practice has been the subject of many primary research publications and systematic reviews. However, there is little written about the features of academic detailing that physicians find valuable or that affect their use of it. The goal of our project was to explore family physicians' (FPs) perceptions of academ...