Sir,?With reference to the paragraph in your last issue, may I point out that Mr. Geoffrey Duveen's gift of ?15,000 to University College Hospital is for the purpose of providing "the most complete and modern treatment of the deaf," and is not intended for the general purposes of the hospital ? The money will be expended entirely on the Ear, Nose and Throat Department, and the removal of the Ro...

*1* Post Graduate, Department of Ophthalmology, Rajah Muthiah medical college and hospital, Annamalainagar, Chidambaram. 2 Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Rajah Muthiah medical college and hospital, Annamalainagar, Chidambaram. 3 Professor and Head of the Department Department of Ophthalmology, Rajah Muthiah medical college and hospital, Annamalainagar, Chidambaram. 4 Associate Professo...

Oral Medicine, Radiology & Diagnosis, Jodhpur Dental College General Hospital, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. Orthodontics & Dentofacial Orthopedics, Jodhpur Dental College General Hospital, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. Pedodontics & Preventive Dentistry, Jodhpur Dental College General Hospital, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. Jodhpur Dental College Jodhpur Dental College General Hospital, Jodhpur, Rajast...

Vishal Mehrotra1*, Sumit Agarwal2, Asheesh Sawhny3, Manish Gupta4 and Kriti Garg5 1Reader, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Rama Dental College Hospital & Research Center, India 2Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Rama Dental College Hospital & Research Center, India 3Reader, Department of Conservative Dentistry, Rama Dental College Hospital & Research Center...

BACKGROUND In Nepal, a developing country in South Asia, the number of female medical students has increased significantly. AIMS The present study was carried out to explore perceived perceptions for this increase, study the perceived impact on teaching-learning activities, medical school infrastructure and possible perceived changes in the doctor-patient relationship. METHOD First, second ...

This commentary addresses the intriguing correspondence of two trends. First, we describe the increasing selectivity for undergraduate admission to elite colleges and universities in the United States and an apparent preference for "angular" applicants who have demonstrated tremendous accomplishment in a single non-academic pursuit such as music, athletics, or the arts. Second, we describe an a...

Proponents of affirmative action policies in higher education argue that the beneficiaries of affirmative action could gain academically from positive peer effects, whereas critiques argue that they could fall behind due to competition with better prepared peers. I examine this hypothesis in the context of caste based affirmative action in college admissions in India. Admission to general educa...

We model high school students’ competition for college admissions as an all-pay contest with many players and prizes, and investigate how reducing the information revealed to colleges about students’ performance can improve students’ welfare in a Pareto sense. Less information reduces the assortativity of the resulting matching, which reduces welfare, but also mitigates competition and reduces ...