OBJECTIVES To report on doctors' reasons, as expressed to our research group, for choosing academic careers and on factors that would make a career in clinical academic medicine more attractive to them. DESIGN Postal, email and web questionnaires. SETTING UK. PARTICIPANTS A total of 6936 UK-trained doctors who graduated in 1996, 1999 and 2000. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Open-ended comments a...

Research exploring cognitive theories of executive function (EF) report positive associations with academic outcomes, but whether such general cognitive theories generalise to when children are exposed to social or economic poverty contexts require more in-depth investigating. This study explores associations between EF and academic achievement for an ethnic minority sample aged 8–10 years, fro...

The adolescence period of life comes along with changes and challenges in terms of physical and cognitive development. In this hectic period, many adolescents may suffer more from various risk factors such as low socioeconomic status, substance abuse, sexual abuse and teenage pregnancy. Findings indicate that such disadvantaged backgrounds of Malaysian adolescent students lead to failure or und...

Undergraduate students often seek summer or academic-year internships as part of their academic and professional development. This case report illustrates a systematic self-marketing approach to generating internship opportunities, based on the theory diffusion innovations, insights from field relationship marketing. Steps in process for obtaining job offers include: identifying areas desired c...

academic failure of students is one of the basic problems in higher education centers in iran that, not only causes to waste time and current charges in educational centers, but also leads to psychical, mental, familial and social problems for students. therefore, this study has been done in order to determine the value of academic success of students of zahedan medical university and its effec...