For 20 dental students the relationships of field dependency, scores on the dental admissions test, grades in technique courses, and time and error scores on mirror-tracing tests were studied. Preliminary results indicate that study of the perceptual-cognitive styles of dental students may have utility in counseling and admissions. (Author/SJL)

An analysis of programs and positions in the first year of graduate medical education regarded as acceptable by U.S. medical students suggests that the ratio for all positions is about one per graduate and even less in primary care programs. (Editor/LBH)

A 1993-94 mailed survey of 490 residents in U.S. Army graduate medical education programs asked the respondents to rank the most helpful and least helpful faculty teaching behaviors, based on the 38 teaching behaviors identified by Wolverton and Bosworth. Found a high degree of concordance in the rankings by primary care and nonprimary care…

Examined the effectiveness of family practice residency programs at 12 medical schools that allowed students to complete their first year of residency during their fourth year of school. Found that accelerated residents performed better than their nonaccelerated peers and national norms on the American Board of Family Practice in-training and…

The paper reviews a construct validation framework for research on the selection and evaluation of residents. The application of the proposed methodology to surgery residents is described. The need to measure non-cognitive and neuropsychological factors in addition to cognitive knowledge and technical ability is emphasized. (Author/MLW)

A survey was developed and administered to residency candidates at the University of Massachusetts Coordinated Surgical Residency Program during interviews for residency. The top five decision factors were satisfaction of the current residents, educational philosophy of the program, general reputation of the program, operative work load, and…

Selection data for all Medical University of South Carolina anesthesiology residency applicants (about 200 per year) and the 8 selected per year were compared for 4 years. Results showed standardized test scores, grades, and class ranks of those selected were not higher than of others, but interview and recommendation scores were higher.…

Comparison of opinions of residents in two programs providing different amounts of geriatric training concerning management of four geriatric and two traditional internal medicine problems found all had less confidence about geriatric than traditional problems. Students with more training offered more support for nondiscriminatory care of elderly…

Comparison of the beliefs and attitudes of a sample of pediatric residents (n=56) and practicing physicians (n=1,500) concerning children with insulin-dependent Diabetes Mellitus and the disease itself found residents in their second and third years of training considerably more negative about both than physicians or first-year residents.…

Inverness Research studied the American Museum of Natural History's (AMNH) Seminars on Science program for eight years, from its inception in 1998 to 2006. This paper presents teacher survey ratings for "The Link between Dinosaurs and Birds", along with profiles of three teachers who took the course. Course takers report on the annual…

In this study, the experiences of seven female health professionals learning online are examined and, in this context, the implications for online course designs and future research are discussed. The instruments of data collection include individual telephone interviews, journals written by the participants during online courses, and e-­mails…

Using a campus climate assessment instrument developed by Rankin (1998), we surveyed students (N = 7,347) from 10 campuses to explore the different experiences with harassment and campus climates reported by men and women. Both men and women reported experiencing harassment, although women experienced harassment at statistically significantly…

The paper presents an evaluation of student and tutor experiences in the introductory module of a European Masters programme in e-Learning, Multimedia and Consultancy. The aims and outline of the Masters programme are described, together with the pedagogical approach adopted in the introductory module which explores open and flexible learning…

"Open Doors" is a long-standing, comprehensive information resource on the almost 565,000 international students in the United States in 2005/06 and on the nearly 206,000 U.S. students who studied abroad for academic credit in 2004/05. The Institute of International Education, one of the largest and most experienced U.S. higher education…

A study examined the supervisory relationship between a non-native English-speaking doctoral student and a native English-speaking advisor, particularly in science, focusing on factors leading to effective or ineffective supervision, advisee response to advisor guidance and assistance, and the roles played by the two participants. Subjects were…