The MEDA pole comprises physicians conducting research in the three acute medicine units of the UCL Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc and CHU UCL Namur site Mont-Godinne: anesthesiology, intensive care, and emergency medicine. Our primary research work is devoted to clinical research, from local original studies to international multicenter studies, either academic or industry-sponsored. The M...

Both reports consider academic support units for innovation in teaching and learning at the institutional level as well as those that foster collaborations across a system or network of institutions. In the previous post we discussed several ways that a network or system of institutions could collaborate on exploration, experimentation and exploitation of innovations in teaching and learning. T...

an old enemy By Ian Sabroe,* David H. Dockrell, and Fiona J. Culley Academic Units of *Respiratory Medicine and Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Department of Infection and Immunity, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; and Respiratory Infections Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, United Kin...

Methods The study was designed as a prospective cohort study for patients admitted to the nine intensive care units in the four provincial academic medical centers from September 2013 to February 2014. Validation and comparison were conducted to measure discrimination and calibration with using the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) and the Hosmer-Lemeshow test, respec...

The paper presents a simple game-theoretic model in which players decide on search procedures for a prize located in one of a set of labeled boxes. The prize is awarded to the player who finds it first. A player can decide on the number of (costly) search units he employs and on the order in which he conducts the search. It is shown that in equilibrium, the players employ an equal number of sea...

the significance of research article (ra) abstract as a key academic genre has recently motivated analysts to focus on this neglected area. considering a summary function for abstracts, most genre researchers have adopted the conventionally proposed introduction- method- results- discussion (or conclusion) (imrd) model for analysis. however, the problems reported, especially for results and dis...

BACKGROUND Many academic medical centres have introduced strategies to assess the productivity of faculty as part of compensation schemes. We conducted a systematic review of the effects of such strategies on faculty productivity. METHODS We searched the MEDLINE, Healthstar, Embase and PsycInfo databases from their date of inception up to October 2011. We included studies that assessed academ...

The Bologna Process aimed to build a European Higher Education Area with the objective of promoting students mobility. The adoption of Bologna Declaration directives requires a decentralized approach that accelerates student's mobility, based on frequently updated legislation. This paper proposes a student personal system to manage student's academic information. This system is supported by a f...

The mark of an "academic health department" includes shared activity by academic and practice partners sustained over time. Despite a long history of productive interactivity, the Pennsylvania Department of Health and the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public Health often faced administrative hurdles in contracting for projects of mutual interest. Seeking to overcome these hurdle...

BACKGROUND Predictive validity studies for selection criteria into graduate entry courses in Australia have been inconsistent in their outcomes. One of the reasons for this inconsistency may have been failure to have adequately considered background disciplines of the graduates as well as other potential confounding socio-demographic variables that may influence academic performance. METHODS ...