Many resources are invested in research training, but very little literature exists on predictors for a successful PhD and postdoctoral training outcome. A PhD program has two overall objectives: to extend knowledge about a hopefully important health topic and to provide extensive training to improve the PhD student's skills through learning research methods and collaboration. A substantial num...

This panel shares the lessons learnt about the challenges and opportunities of running an IS PhD program in Africa by focusing on cases from Southern Africa, East Africa, and West Africa. The University of Cape Town, South Africa is running a successful PhD program on its own capacity, which can attract PhD candidates from many parts of the continent and beyond. Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia...

Modeling the optimal bid of wind power producers as price-makers is paramount for understanding the effect of their large-scale participation in electricity markets. We consider the problem of a wind power producer being a price-taker in the day-ahead market, but a price-maker in the balancing market, who aims at optimizing the expected revenues from these market floors. The problem is formulat...

Independent directors are normally elected to monitor management behaviour and protect the interests of minority shareholders, which maintains the effectiveness of internal governance. Based on the special context in China, where succeeding independent directors are often recommended by their predecessors, we examine the causes of this recommendation and the influence of these successors on cor...

Traditional underrepresented minority (URM) groups (African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans) remain underrepresented among physician-scientists. To address the dearth of URM physician-scientists, in 1993 the Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan Kettering Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program developed a pipeline program, Gateways to the Laboratory (Gateways), which focuses on increasing t...

Neylane Nyéria Coelho Batista Gadelha1, Diego Nery Benevides Gadelha2, Alexandre Rolim da Paz3, Maria Cecília Santos Cavalcanti Melo4, Thárcia Kiara Beserra Oliveira5, Carlos Teixeira Brandt6 1 Fellow MSc degree, Postgraduate Program in Surgery, Health Sciences Center, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, PE, Brazil. 2 PhD, Postgraduate Program in Surgery, Health Sciences Center, ...