PURPOSE We changed a lot of the medical curricula to accept the freshman of graduate medical students in 2009. We surveyed the satisfaction of new medical curricula from graduate medical students. METHODS We analysed the returned questionnaires from 118 freshmen of graduate medical students. RESULTS The number of boys and girls was 56 (47.5%) and 62 (52.5%), respectively and of married stud...

three research-oriented degrees: DPhil (PhD), MPhil and MSc|which normally require, respectively, three years, two years and one year of enrolment. Students enroled for these degrees work closely with their supervisors and their research is tightly integrated into the Depart-ment's research groups. This document outlines some of the present research interests of most members of the Department w...

The broad aim of our research in speech communication is to gain an understanding of the nature of the processes of human speech production and perception and to learn how these processes are acquired. A practical aim is to utilize knowledge gained through study of speech communication to devise procedures that will permit limited communication between men and machines by means of speech. Sever...

With the development of internet technology, professional virtual community (PVC) is becoming the valuable external knowledge source for graduate students. Students search information and knowledge in specific domain, share research experiences and weave their social network in these professional virtual communities (PVCs). How to use PVC to increase graduate students’ creativity should be an i...

Development of skills in science communication is a well-acknowledged gap in graduate training, but the constraints that accompany research (limited time, resources, and knowledge of opportunities) make it challenging to acquire these proficiencies. Furthermore, advisors and institutions may find it difficult to support graduate students adequately in these efforts. The result is fewer career a...

The Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program supported by the National Science Foundation is designed to provide summer academic experiences for undergraduate students through participation in research. Although students are paired with faculty mentors to work on a research project, many times graduate students are highly involved in the mentoring process. In this paper, we evaluat...

BACKGROUNDS In Iran medical students are selected from high school graduates via a very competitive national university entrance exam. New proposals have been seriously considered for admitting students from those with bachelor degrees. We assessed the opinions of different stakeholders on the current situation of admission into medicine in Iran, and their views on positive and negative aspects...

Previous studies have examined the online research behaviors of graduate students in terms of how they seek and retrieve research-related information on the Web across diverse disciplines. However, few have focused on graduate students’ searching activities, and particularly for their research tasks. Drawing on Kuiper, Volman, and Terwel’s (2008) three aspects of web literacy skills (searching,...