Nanotechnology is on its way to make a big impact in Biotech, Pharmaceutical and Medical diagnostics sciences. Pharmaceutical education in USA is also taking significant steps in incorporating courses as well as offering specialization in nanotechnology and its applications in Pharmaceutical scenario. This paper discusses status of nanotechnology and its application in educational curriculum in...

OBJECTIVES Little attention has been paid to the differential emphasis undergraduate and graduate medical education programmes place on the broad competencies that will be needed for practice in an increasingly managed health care environment. The purpose of this study was to determine differences in emphasis that undergraduate and primary care graduate medical education programmes are currentl...

From a unique data-set identifying the school attended prior to university for a full cohort of UK university students, we examine the determinants of ̄nal degree classi ̄cation. We exploit the detailed school-level information and focus on the in°uence of school characteristics, such as school type, on subsequent performance of students at university. We estimate that, on average, a male (femal...

Most medical schools both internationally and in the UK select on the basis of academic ability and intellect along with the determination of key personal competencies associated with success in the medical profession. Selection tests need to consider both cognitive ability and also test other competencies that underpin the doctor’s role as a competent professional. These have been defined inte...

The current shortage of faculty qualified to teach anatomy in U.S. medical schools is reversible. Sufficient numbers of individuals are in the pipeline to provide a future cadre of well-trained faculty members educating students in gross anatomy. The challenge is to realign departmental, institutional, and federal training grant priorities and resources, creating incentives for graduate student...

We study the sources of match-specific value at large American law firms by analyzing how graduates of law schools group into law firms. We measure the degree to which lawyers from certain schools concentrate within firms and then analyze how this agglomeration can be explained by “natural advantage” factors (such as geographic proximity) and by productive spillovers across graduates of a given...

West African-trained physicians have been migrating from the sub-continent to rich countries, primarily the US and the UK, since medical education began in Nigeria and Ghana in the 1960s. In 2003, we visited six medical schools in West Africa to investigate the magnitude, causes and consequences of the migration. We conducted interviews and focus groups with faculty, administrators (deans and p...

In 1989, APS requested information from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Faculty Roster System (FRS) concerning the status of two groups of faculty members in US medical schools: 1) faculty who hold PhD degrees in physiology and 2) faculty members with appointments in departments of physiology. The data provided by the AAMC were used by the Long Range Planning Committee in th...

Ranking Up by Moving Out: The Effect of the Texas Top 10% Plan on Property Values Texas engaged in a large-scale policy experiment when it instituted the Top 10% Plan. This policy guarantees automatic admission to their state university of choice for all high school seniors who graduate in the top decile of their high school class. We find evidence that households reacted strategically to this ...