PURPOSE Collaboration in academic medicine is encouraged, yet no one has studied the environment in which faculty collaborate. The authors investigated how faculty experienced collaboration and the institutional atmosphere for collaboration. METHOD In 2007, as part of a qualitative study of faculty in five disparate U.S. medical schools, the authors interviewed 96 medical faculty at different...

A significant factor in a faculty member's accepting or maintaining an academic appointment is the work environment. Assessing the work environment to identify characteristics that could increase faculty retention and recruitment could be valuable to an educational institution. This study assessed the academic dental work environment to identify positive and negative areas affecting career sati...

We are pleased to present a collection of papers on various topics within the area of Informatics and Information Technologies (IIT). The whole collection has been authored by students. We approached selected authors of papers originally presented at the annual IIT Student Research Conference, IIT.SRC 2011 which was organized by the Slovak University of Technology and attended by its students s...

background: the present study was conducted to determine the inhibiting factors of research activities among the faculty members of islamic azad university.   methods: in the present cross-sectional study, conducted between 2009-2013, 300 faculty members of islamic azad university, science and research branch, tehran, were selected following stratified random sampling method. data collection in...

1 Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi 43600, Malaysia 2 Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, PSTU, Patuakhali 8602, Bangladesh 3 Department of Electrical and Electronics & System Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment, Unive...

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This study is concerned with proposing a suitable organizational memory framework for Faculty Memory Information System and the development of Faculty Memory Information System (FMIS) prototype for the Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, UM. The framework portrays interaction between components that support the institution memory and the information system components that supp...

The aim of this research is to understand and assess the application of organizational learning capabilities in the status quo and review desirable situations in the context of the agricultural faculty environment. Data were collected from 329 faculty members in 19 public agricultural faculties using a survey questionnaire. Results indicate that organizational learning capabilities are below av...

the effect of portfolio educational plan on the perception of nursing students in a clinical educational environment: based on dreem model     habibzade h [1] *, kazemi n [2] , mhammadpr y [3] , khalkhali hr [4]     received: 29 nov , 2012 accepted: 13 feb , 2013     abstract:   background & aims : clinical education is a complex process with various factors. the portfolio program is considered...