CONTEXT Child maltreatment is a significant risk factor for adult mental disorders and physical illnesses. Although the child welfare system routinely places severely abused and/or neglected children in foster care, no controlled studies exist to determine the effectiveness of this intervention in improving the long-term health of maltreated youth. OBJECTIVE To present results of the first qu...

1 Throughout this past year, the Haverford College Lawyers Network transformed from an idea into a reality. With the generosity of countless alumni, be it financially or w with their time, this organization created multiple forums with which to interact with other likeminded alumni. Specifically, the past year witnessed the establishment of four regional events (Philadelphia; Wilmington; New Yo...

The objective of this research project was to compare alumni perceptions of predoctoral dental education in the care and management of patients with complex needs to alumni practice patterns. Alumni from the University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry who graduated from 1997 to 2007 were surveyed regarding perceptions of their predoctoral education in the care of patients cat...

BACKGROUND 1) To elicit the opinions of the Public Health alumni of the MPH program; 2) To assess the applicability of the knowledge and skills acquired; 3) To identify the frequency of the public health competencies that the alumni performed. METHODS We requested 187 graduates to complete a self-administered questionnaire and conducted in-depth interviews with 8 alumni as well as a focus gro...

PURPOSE Evaluating educational programs can improve the quality of education. The present study evaluated the undergraduate occupational health program at the Semnan University of Medical Sciences in Semnan, Iran, with a focus on the associations between alumni perceptions of the learning environment and the outcomes of the occupational health program. METHODS A cross-sectional questionnaire ...

OBJECTIVES In 2010-2011, recent graduates (2008 or earlier) of the Masters in International Health (MIH) (as offered by over 30 universities and institutions collaborating in the tropEd network) were surveyed. We aimed to examine whether the competencies gained proved appropriate for alumni's current positions and to develop the programme according to alumni's needs. METHODS An online questio...

In this paper we look at the effectiveness of business networks created by alumni of different universities. In particular, we analyze the networking behavior of entrepreneurs in Germany through the emergent structures of their virtual social networks. We automatically collected the publicly accessible portion of the German business networking site Xing.com by crawling the Web. We then filtered...