BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Community health centers are facing a shortage of primary care physicians at a time when government plans have called for an expansion of community health center programs. To succeed with this expansion, community health centers require additional well-trained physician leadership. Our objective was to ascertain how medical directors obtain leadership skills in an atte...

We examine the contingencies that sway independent non-core directors of S&P500 firms to heed the norms of the corporate elite or the disciplining forces of the efficient directorial labor market in the context of executive entrenchment. We find support for the corporate elite perspective as the number of independent non-core directors is positively associated with an entrenchment index score. ...

Over repeated reference conversational partners tend to converge on preferred terms or referential pacts. Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are characterized by pragmatic difficulties that are best captured by less structured tasks. To this end we tested adults with ASD who did not have language or intellectual impairments, and neurotypical comparison participants in a referential communication t...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to report the results of a survey of pediatric dentistry post-doctoral program directors regarding education of post-doctoral students about management of caries in children 3 years-of-age or younger. METHODS Fifty-two pediatric dentistry advanced education program directors were sent questionnaires inquiring about payer sources in their programs, distrib...

Food safety is an important part of providing school children with acceptable, safe, and nutritious meals. There is evidence that improvements are needed in the area of food safety in schools, and that few schools have implemented Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) programs. The purposes of this study were to determine the attitudes of school foodservice directors toward food safety...

Background. There are currently 34 International Emergency Medicine (IEM) fellowship programs. Applicants and programs are increasing in number and diversity. Without a standardized application, applicants have a difficulty approaching programs in an informed and an organized method; a streamlined application system is necessary. Objectives. To measure fellows' knowledge of their programs' curr...

Personal attributes of students and employees are increasingly important to educators and employers. This study determined the personal attributes perceived by Dietetic Internship Directors and Preceptors from varying generations that lead to success in Dietetic Internships. Internship Directors and Preceptors throughout the United States participated in this 2012 study. A mixed methods approac...

1 Summary Debugging and performance measurement tools are becoming more important in the development and maintenance of increasingly complex software. These tools belong to a class of programs, called directors. Directors are programs that monitor and control other programs. Through monitoring, directors analyze program execution at run time. Monitoring provides tracing primitives as well as ac...

Awareness of the subspecialty of infectious diseases in obstetrics and gynecology is low among United States residents and residency directors. Objective. Given the burden of infectious diseases on women's health, we sought to assess current awareness, interest, and perceived value of the subspecialty of infectious diseases in obstetrics and gynecology among current United States obstetrics and...

Many corporations reward their outside directors with a modest fee for each board meeting they attend. Using a large panel data set on director attendance behavior in publicly-listed firms for the period 1996–2003, we provide robust evidence that directors are less likely to have attendance problems at board meetings when board meeting fees are higher. This is surprising since meeting fees, on ...