The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect that practice patterns and other variables had on graduates' level of satisfaction with dental school preparation and satisfaction with several career experiences and to determine if any gender-based differences occurred in these findings. Dentists who graduated from Creighton University School of Dentistry between 1985 and 2005 were surve...

The curriculum of our medical school has a hybrid structure including both traditional training (lectures) and problem-based learning (PBL) applications. The purpose of this study was to determine the learning styles of our medical students and investigate the relation of learning styles with each of satisfaction with different instruction methods and academic achievement in them. This study wa...

PURPOSE To understand differences in productivity, advancement, retention, satisfaction, and compensation comparing underrepresented medical (URM) faculty with other faculty at multiple institutions. METHOD A 17-year follow-up was conducted of the National Faculty Survey, a random sample from 24 U.S. medical schools, oversampled for URM faculty. The authors examined academic productivity, adv...

This study examined relationship among teachers academic qualification, teachers professional qualification, teachers content knowledge, teachers instructional quality, teachers’ evaluation procedures, teachers’ work value, teachers’ classroom attendance’ and teachers’ job satisfaction on academic performance of secondary school students in Saki-west local government area. The study adopted a d...

BACKGROUND Pediatric hospital medicine has become a viable long-term career choice. To retain qualified physicians, both academic and community hospital leaders seek to improve their job satisfaction. OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to determine whether practice in a community versus academic setting is associated with pediatric hospitalists' career satisfaction. METHODS The study was ...

prised that perceptions of hospital support were not associated with risks for burnout and low satisfaction. This suggests that even though relationships with their hospital are critical for financial and strategic success, direct support from divisions appears to be more critical for hospitalists’ career satisfaction and burnout. Nearly 90% of respondents reported to a general internal medicin...

OBJECTIVES Patient satisfaction impacts healthcare quality and outcomes. Residents play an important role in patient satisfaction at academic institutions. This study aims to assess residents' patient satisfaction knowledge and determine which learning experiences contributed to their knowledge acquisition. SETTINGS This study was conducted at a health science university in a large, urban, te...