Contents: Federal support for academic health centers -- historical perspective; Medical schools; Teaching hospitals; Veterans administration hospitals; Other health professional schools; Role of academic health center administration.

Academics are facing significant challenges in preparing indigenous students for employment in the multicultural working environment of hospitality and tourism organisations. In dealing with the impact of the new skills and flexibilities demanded by increasing globalisation, the indigenous workforce needs to possess a multicultural ...

Academic hospitality is a feature of academic life. It takes many forms. It takes material form in the hosting of academics giving papers. It takes epistemological form in the welcome of new ideas. It takes linguistic form in the translation of academic work into other languages, and it takes ...

In 1987, Pittsburgh's LaRoche College advanced its baccalaureate level nurse anesthesia program to the master's degree level. The coordinator of the didactic program collaborated with directors of two affiliated hospitals of nurse anesthesia to develop a program in which scientific concepts, theory and clinical applications have been well-integrated. PMID:1957578

The role of new technology in healthcare continues to expand from both the clinical and financial perspectives. Despite the importance of innovation, most academic medical centers do not have a clearly defined process for technology assessment. Recognizing the importance of new drugs, diagnostics and procedures in the care of patients and in the financial ...

Objective: This article introduces a systematic approach to identifying and communicating the value of library and information services (LIS) from the perspective of their contributions to achieving organizational goals.Methods: The contributions of library and information services (CLIS) approach for identifying and communicating the value of LIS draws on findings from a ...

), the major organization for the industry. Nutrition and Hospitality are distinct programs from one another Ecology is proposing to separate the existing Department of Nutrition and Hospitality to their own single academic units. We will rename the Nutrition side, Nutrition Science and Dietetics, and Hospitality

AbstractPurposeTo systematically identify, describe and characterise the collaborative initiatives, which have been established between the Academic Medical Centre/University of Amsterdam and local health care providers in the adjacent community.BackgroundThe viability of university hospitals is jeopardised. Their narrowed orientation on delivering the ...

This academic website describes perspectives on late Twentieth Century Paleontological research topics....

Elsewhere in this issue, Kastor details the merger and demerger of New York University (NYU) and Mount Sinai hospitals and medical schools. Academic medical center mergers are difficult endeavors to execute under optimal circumstances. The failure of the NYU-Mount Sinai merger was inevitable on the basis of preexisting cultural distinctions, lack of ...

Nursing continues to struggle to integrate the theoretical and clinical aspects of nurse education for the development of competent practitioners. Collaborative approaches to nurse education as well as the development of joint clinical-academic roles have had questionable success to date on merging the theoretical and clinical components of nursing. Lecturer practitioners' ...

... Accession Number : ADA424521. Title : What is the Academic Review Process and How Is It Working at the Naval Hospital Corps School. ...

BACKGROUNDSignificant racial and ethnic differences along several dimensions of patients�experiences with hospital care have been previously documented. However, the relationship between these differences and possible differences in processes of care has not been well described.METHODSWe conducted focus groups with 37 black and Hispanic men and women who had recently been ...

Academic neurology is undergoing transformational changes. The public investment in biomedical research and clinical care is enormous and there is a growing perception that the return on this huge investment is insufficient. Hospitals, departments, and individual neurologists should expect more scrutiny as information about their quality of care and ...

The purpose of this project is to: (1) analyze the relationship between patients' perspectives of hospital quality of care and key hospital characteristics that may influence patients' experiences of hospital care, including rurality; and (2) assess wheth...

... Departments of 2Cardiothoracal Surgery and 3Radiology, Academic Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht ... grid of magnetic tags was attached to the heart. ...

... Title : Improving the Discharge Process to Optimize Patient Throughput in an Academic Teaching Hospital and Level I Trauma Center. ...

... computer. Programs nationwide offer free or low-cost laptops for use in the hospital; check with your ...

... 25 separate focus groups with attending physicians, nurses, residents, patients, and hospital administrators at 5 academic medical centers in a ...

This study examined the relationship of academic achievement to time perspective (future, present) and school membership (belonging, acceptance, rejection) among 232 low-income, urban African American adolescents. Findings indicated positive, significant relationships among academic achievement, future time ...

This study examined the relationship of academic achievement to time perspective (future, present) and school membership (belonging, acceptance, rejection) among 232 low-income, urban African American adolescents. Findings indicated positive, significant relationships among academic achievement, future time ...

, education, and care at the new home for University of Minnesota Amplatz Children's Hospital. The campaign Amplatz Children's Hospital is Minnesota's first and only academic pediatric hospital engaged in basic for those who support children's health research, education, and care at University of Minnesota Amplatz

... appropriate ventilation. ... Hospitals and health systems can no longer look to the traditional 50-year hospital physical plant (Lanser, 2003). ...

... from the perspective of the medical mission requirements ... of doing so using fragmented hospital units and ... need for a more mobile, flexible hospital ...

... of lethal harm in psychiatric hospitals (or other ... review in a State psychiatric hospital, a study ... addresses the ability to accomplish daily activities and ...

... implemented an ER triage system, which was used to ... 3. If fielded in all hospitals in Region 3 ... A. Martin Army Community Hospital Emergency Room ...

... Accession Number : ADA323406. Title : Hospitalization Rates of Tuberculosis in US Navy Enlisted Personnel: A 15-Year Perspective. ...

The academic health centers in the United States, their component schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, optometry, public health and veterinary medicine, as well as their teaching hospitals, have developed as major and essential c...

ObjectiveTo assess academic emergency medicine (EM) chairs� perceptions of quality improvement (QI) training programs.MethodsA voluntary anonymous 20 item survey was distributed to a sample of academic chairs of EM through the Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine. Data was collected to assess the percentage of ...

Hospitals, and surgical operating theatres (OTs) in particular, are environments in which inter-professional teamwork and learning are essential to secure patient safety and effective practice. However, it has been revealed in many studies that inter-professional collaborative work in hospital organisations faces many challenges and constraints. In this ...

While advances in biomedicine are awesome, progress in patient safety and quality of care has proven slow and arduous. One factor contributing to the labored progress is the paucity of physician-leaders who can help advance the science and practice of quality and safety. This limited talent pool, which has particularly serious consequences in academic medical centers (AMCs), ...

Following contemporary globalization, biomedicine and western style hospitals have penetrated most corners of the world. We must therefore ask, "How has the diffusion of biomedicine impacted biomedicine's core features of practice cross culturally? How do physicians in different countries make diagnoses, explain etiology and treat patients? To what degree does a physician's ...

A study of urban transportation systems are presented characterized by intensive scrutiny of many ideas, philosophies, and academic perspectives. This report is intended to communicate some dimensions of the urban transportation problem to the general pub...

Roles of publishers, subscription agents, and institutional subscribers in the academic journal business : Opinions after reading the �Series: Perspectives on serials crisis and scholarly communication practice�

Interprofessional education (IPE) has emerged as a critical pedagogy for promoting interprofessional collaboration (IPC) within healthcare. However, the literature includes few reports of students' perspectives on IPE experiences. Understanding students' experiences is critical, as they are the crux of IPE's culture change agenda. This paper presents an autoethnographic ...

... broadened and it became the National Disaster ... Department : Hospitalization and Evacuation, Zone of ... FH Krusen MD, �Historical Developments in ...

... from Aboriginal groups, nongovernmental and academic organizations, the mining industry, private consultancies, and federal, provincial, and territorial governments. ... ...

... Title : Document & Media Exploitation. ... Abstract : This article introduces electronic document and media exploitation from that academic perspective. ...

This article presents a study identifying benefits and challenges of a novel hospital-to-hospital information technology (IT) outsourcing partnership (HHP). The partnership is an innovative response to the problem that many smaller, rural hospitals face: to modernize their IT infrastructure in spite of a severe shortage of resources. The investigators ...

A number of federal tax and election laws apply to political activity by charitable hospitals and trade associations, including the formation of political action committees. Trustees of charitable hospitals should approach political activity with an awareness of potential IRS hostility and with the advice of legal counsel. PMID:10246502

This volume of the report presents summary reviews of physical plant evaluations with the purpose of giving the reader a general perspective of the adequacy of the hospitals' present facilities to serve the needs of their present programs. Ten study areas...

Guided by the academic resilience perspective, the current longitudinal study examined whether academic motivation mediated the relation between Latino adolescents' (N = 221) experiences with discrimination and their academic success. The potential moderating role of gender was also examined. Using multiple group ...

institutional-specific laboratory code or name in their system's term dictionary to LOINC names or codes. Each and Jewish Hospital (During 1996, these hospitals were merged as Barnes-Jewish Hospital). Database Queries. The list of the most frequent 50 tests at Jewish Hospital were compiled from a 4 month period ...

The proliferation of hospital libraries since World War II has created a generation of librarians who take for granted the existence of libraries in hospitals. A literature review for the first half of the twentieth century presents a picture of uncertainty and struggle for identity for the hospital library. Then as now, ...

This literature review deals with curricular supervisioned traineeship in the nursing undergraduate program, whose objectives were to understand how the program is currently structured and to identify today's challenges, by tracing back its history and understanding the laws governing the program. Issues of Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem published between 1954 and 2006 were used as a main ...

The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua raises questions about motherhood and what is admirable. Chua promotes strict, Old World, uncompromising values stressing academic performance above all, insisting on drilling and practice, and instilling respect for authority. As clinical geneticists, we meet an entirely different type of mother than Chua, the clinical genetics ...

The Arabian conquests during and after the 7th century led to a spread of Islam as well as the consequential influence of theology on health through the teachings of the Qur'an (Koran). Although traditional medicine was widely accepted and used, the character of early aggrandisement of Arabic medicine involved a facility for adapting and absorbing Graeco-Roman knowledge. The translation schools ...

This study investigates the adoption of Library 2.0 functionalities by academic libraries and users through a knowledge management perspective. Based on randomly selected 230 academic library Web sites and 184 users, the authors found RSS and blogs are widely adopted by academic libraries while users widely ...

This paper aims to present a perspective to better understand corporate identity through examining the perceptions of Turkish patients and develop a corporate visual identity scale. While there is no study related to corporate identity research on hospitals in Turkey as a developing country, understanding consumer's perceptions about corporate identity ...

This book of essays focuses on the diminution of trust resulting from a perceived diminution in individual and institutional integrity as they relate to our university-based health educational and care programs. Following an introduction titled "Covenant, Leadership, and Value Formation in Academic Health Centers" (Roger J. Bulger), the first three essays treat the ...

We compared the implementation of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) in two Dutch hospitals, one being an academic medical center and the other a large regional non-academic hospital. Both implemented the TDS7000 system that was running on the same computer, located in the computing department of the ...

In recent years Germany has faced a growing economization and competition among hospitals. To protect their interests hospitals have to operate similarly to other commercial businesses. Academic hospitals face difficult circumstances in this competition. They have to facilitate research and education activities ...

It has been stated that academic medicine is in a worldwide crisis. Is this decline in hospital academic practice a predictable consequence of modern clinical practice with its emphasis on community and outpatient-based services as well as a corporate health-care ethos or does it relate to innate problems in the training process and ...

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The level and nature of emotional upheaval and relationship to developmental stage was studied in children with pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) hospitalized for head injury. The sample consisted of 25 hospitalized children aged 5-12 years. Children were asked to make the drawing of a ;person in hospital'. The drawings were ...

PURPOSE: To compare perceptions and perspectives of medical school deans and hospital chief executive officers (CEOs) regarding roles, responsibilities, and attributes of effective clinical department chairs. METHOD: In 2009, the authors surveyed the deans of 126 U.S. medical schools and the CEOs of the primary teaching hospitals in ...

¹Attention to quality and patient safety in health care has grown substantially over recent years. From 1982, I have been involved in advocating for efforts to improve quality and safety. Four years ago, I was given the opportunity to lead an academic health system - hospitals, doctors, and a medical school.This article recounts the ...

The decline in vocational coursetaking from 1982-1998 is relatively small compared to increases in academic coursetaking. The potential trade-off between academic and vocational coursetaking seems to have been mitigated by students taking more courses overall and fewer courses in the general curriculum. Further, the decline in vocational concentration is ...

Guided by an ecological perspective, two competing models were tested to examine how sibling relationship quality directly predicted or interacted with academic support from siblings to predict Latino adolescents' academic motivation (N = 258). Gender differences were examined utilizing multiple group analysis in structural equation ...

This case study investigated the impact of academic capitalism on academic culture by examining the perspectives of faculty members in an American academic department with significant industrial funding. The results of this study indicate that faculty members believe that the broad integrity of the ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the etiology and cultural underpinnings of adolescent violence as collective case study analysis of three inter-related groups: psychiatrically hospitalized rural adolescents, their parent/guardian, and various hospital staff. Violence among adolescents is a serious societal issue that has had varying degrees ...

Objectives: This article presents a taxonomy of the contributions of library and information services (LIS) in hospitals and academic health sciences centers. The taxonomy emerges from a study with three objectives: to articulate the value of LIS for hospitals and academic health sciences centers in terms of ...

Critical questions in educational psychology research to be addressed in this paper concern the casual relationship between academic self-concept, academic motivation and its effect on academic achievement. Do changes in academic self-concept and academic motivation lead to changes in ...

Limited resources and capacity constraints force Ben Taub General Hospital (BTGH) to optimize patient throughput in order to minimize Emergency Center overcrowding and ambulance diversions. The purpose of this study was to identify impeding systematic del...

The perceptions of representatives of 16 historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) concerning the future of hospitality and tourism education in those institutions are summarized. Comments address leadership, instruction, research, perceptions by other disciplines, ingredients for program success, industry-academe relationship, and ...

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