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BACKGROUND Physicians in Israel are required to do an internship in an accredited hospital upon completion of the medical studies, and prior to receiving the medical license. For most students, the assignment is determined by a lottery, which takes into consideration the preferences of these students. OBJECTIVES We propose a novel way to perform this lottery, in which (on average) a larger nu...

BACKGROUND In Korea, clinical performance examination (CPX) has been included in license examination for medical doctors since 2009 in order to improve clinical performance of medical students. This study aimed to evaluate the contribution of CPX to medical education. METHODS Clinical competency in the differential diagnosis of secondary headache was compared between the incoming interns in 2...

The principal investigator for this project is Dr. Paul Sharkey, Head of the Virtual Reality and Robotics Research Groups at the Department of Cybernetics. Dr Sharkey has published extensively in the area of dynamic systems and robotics, including stability of systems with delays, bandwidth considerations, twotime scale modelling, robot design and control, systerm architectures and active visio...

Page 1 of 2 Final Report for Period: 09/2009 08/2010 Submitted on: 07/13/2010 Principal Investigator: Feamster, Nicholas G. Award ID: 0626950 Organization: GA Tech Res Corp GIT Submitted By: Feamster, Nicholas Principal Investigator Title: NeTS-FIND: Collaborative Research: Concurrent Architectures are Better than One Project Participants Senior Personnel Name: Feamster, Nicholas Worked for mor...

Richard W. Neu, Ph.D. Project Director and co-Principal Investigator The GWW School of Mechanical Engineering School of Materials Science and Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0405 404-894-3074 404-894-0186 (fax) [email protected] David L. McDowell, Ph.D. co-Principal Investigator The GWW School of Mechanical Engineering School of Materials Science and Engineeri...