The paper presents an analysis of the main events regarding the making of a national university evaluation system during the Nineties and the main results achieved so far. The structure of the evaluation system presents some problems related to the role of internal evaluation units inside the universities and, at a central level, to the connections between the National University Evaluation Cou...

OBJECTIVE AND BACKGROUND For large epidemiological studies in low and middle-income countries, inexpensive and easily administered developmental assessment tools are called for. This report evaluates the feasibility of the assessment tool Ages and Stages Questionnaire 3.edition (ASQ-3) "home procedure" in a field trial in 422 North Indian young children. METHODS ASQ-3 was translated and adjus...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to establish outcome measures for professionalism in medical students and to identify predictors of these outcomes. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING A US medical school. PARTICIPANTS All students entering in 1995 and graduating within 5 years. MEASURES Outcome measures included review board identification of professionalism problems and ...

BACKGROUND The selection and the professional training for a resident in internal medicine requires a great investment of time, training effort and money. Drop-outs are therefore considered a failure of the selection procedure. To evaluate our selection model and outcome of the training programme, we determined the drop-out rate at the Leiden University Medical Centre with its affiliated hospit...

OBJECTIVE To examine differences in expectations for health using anchoring vignettes, which describe fixed levels of health on dimensions such as mobility. DESIGN Cross sectional survey of adults living in the community. SETTING China, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Turkey, and United Arab Emirates. PARTICIPANTS 3012 men and women aged 18 years and older (self ratings); subsample of 406 (...

Similar to other industrialized countries, Germany's population is ageing. Whereas some people enjoy good physical and cognitive health into old age, others suffer from a multitude of age-related disorders and impairments which reduce life expectancy and affect quality of life. To identify and characterize the factors associated with 'healthy' vs. 'unhealthy' ageing, we have launched the Berlin...

OBJECTIVE Markov models are increasingly used in economic evaluations of treatments for osteoporosis. Most of the existing evaluations are cohort-based Markov models missing comprehensive memory management and versatility. In this article, we describe and validate an original Markov microsimulation model to accurately assess the cost-effectiveness of prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. ...

BACKGROUND Medical professionalism helps physicians adopt a proper and good healing action for the patients based on their particular circumstance. This study was conducted to assess professionalism in surgical residents, using a 360-degree evaluation technique in several teaching hospitals in Tehran, Iran. METHODS This study was conducted on all the second and third year surgery residents fr...

As frequently reported, psychometric assessments on Picture Story Exercises, especially variations of the Thematic Apperception Test, mostly reveal inadequate scores for internal consistency. We demonstrate that the reason for this apparent shortcoming is not caused by the coding system itself but from the incorrect use of internal consistency coefficients, especially Cronbach's α. This problem...

This study presents data on the factor structure, reliability, and discriminant validity of the Metamemory in Adulthood (MIA) questionnaire in a Dutch sample of 1,899 normal and healthy participants aged 24 to 86 years. The factor structure of the Dutch MIA corresponded with that of the original MIA. The Strategy scale could be divided into two subscales: External and Internal Memory Strategies...