We cover a large geographic area from Longreach to northern New South Wales, as well as our large metropolitan population. The degree of specialisation of our teams allows large numbers of patients to be offered involvement in clinical trials – from small investigator initiated trials to large international co-operative group trials. The increasing number of trials available attests to the incr...

Pledging went slowly at fraternities and independent living groups on the first day, but picked up slightly in the late afternoon. By midnight Wednesday morning, 233 freshmen had pledged fraternities and ILGs, said Interfraternity Council Membership Recruitment Chair Dakus S. Gunn ’01. About one-half of an estimated 350 bids were accepted by 4 p.m. yesterday, according to reports from residenti...

Information literacy instruction for graduate students has historically been limited to orientations for new students Some of the reasons for this limited instruction have been faculty members' assumptions that graduate students already possess Information Literacy skills or should be able to figure out the process of finding, accessing and evaluating information on their own (Hardesty, 1995), ...

The current study examined factors that may serve as barriers to the success of ethnic minority graduate students by assessing the academic, social, and emotional experiences of approximately 87 ethnic minority and 313 ethnic majority school psychology graduate students. Results indicated that ethnic minority graduate students reported significantly more negative race-related experiences, which...

Numerous studies have found a host of factors that are likely to result in more successful applications to graduate schools. This study was a retrospective examination of the variables that distinguish graduate students who believed they were better prepared for graduate school. We examined several of these factors, including variables associated with undergraduate education and the individual ...

the purpose of this study is evaluation of the adherence amount to ethical research principles in physical education graduate students at the universities of tehran. the study populations were 1100 graduate students in physical education who 500 of them were selected as samples. reliability coefficient of the questionnaire using cronbach's alpha coefficient and have been reported (0/86). k...

Engineering graduate students will ultimately face the decision of whether to stay in academia, work in industry, or pursue a different career path. Of those that elect to remain in academia, most will face balancing substantial research, teaching and service requirements. Yet, a graduate education typically focuses predominately on preparing students to lead research projects, without an empha...

BACKGROUND In most medical schools, graduate students, sometimes referred to as graduate teaching assistants, often participate in the training of undergraduate students. In developing countries like Uganda, are typically involved in undergraduate training. However, prior to this study there were no standard guidelines for this involvement. At the same time, the views and experiences of the gra...

this paper is an attempt to study information seeking behaviors of graduate students in birjand and ferdowsi universities based on kuhlthau model of information search process. the population consists of graduate students in birjand and ferdowsi universities whose proposals were approved by graduate study councils of mentioned universities up to the end of first semester of 2008-2009 academic y...

OBJECTIVES Australia has a growing number of graduate-entry medical courses. It is known that undergraduate medical students have high levels of psychological distress; however, little is known about graduate-entry medical students. We examined whether graduate-entry medical students had higher levels of psychological distress than the same-age general population. METHOD Psychological distres...