Feedback plays a significant role in precepting and is indispensable in residency training. As described by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the goal of any postgraduate residency program is to prepare individual trainees to function as qualified practitioners. Although feedback and evaluations have traditionally been synonymous, our goal is to differentiate the two and...

Influenza viruses continue to be a major health threat in human and bird populations. The improvements in formulation and production level of the current influenza vaccines are not sufficient to afford complete protection. The continuous antigenic drifts and emergence of endemic and zoonotic strains make influenza vaccine planning difficult. Concern about the emergence of new influenza pandemic...

My job is to start us off by addressing these questions: What is effective faculty development? And how does one achieve the goal of providing effective faculty development? These are critical questions and ones that I suspect you have been asking yourself. In fact, these questions may have served as the impetus for coming to this meeting. I hope, in the next 30 minutes to begin to answer these...

This paper is the fourth in a 5-part series that focuses on educating and training the clinical and translational science workforce. The goal of this paper is to delineate components of effective career development programs that go beyond didactic training. All academic health centers with a Clinical and Translational Science Award have a KL2 career development award for junior faculty, and man...

today, development of social entrepreneurship has been regarded as a social and altruistic mission and as a solution to some social problems and damages. entrepreneurship has exerted positive and direct impact on the activities of many different countries. on one hand, it leads to economic development and creation of vocational opportunities; and on the other hand, it causes to improve social a...