Universities

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Premedical education: the contribution of small local colleges.

CONTEXT: Small local colleges may be sources of medical students with the gender, ethnicity, and background that promote identity with and empathy for underserved populations. PURPOSE: This study examined the impact of attendance at these premedical ...
John R Wheat, John E Brandon, Lee R Carter, James D Leeper, James R Jackson (J Rural Health, 2003SPRING)
premedical-education-contribution-small-local-colleges.asp

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Customization of a standard practice management software program to satisfy the needs of a dental hygiene program.

The University of New England (UNE) Dental Hygiene Program converted from a paper format to a digital format to manage the daily, dental hygiene clinic transactions. The use of this practice management software created new opportunities to enhance the ...
David L Baker, Bernice A Mills (J Dent Hyg, 2003SPRING)
customization-standard-practice-management-software-program-satisfy.asp

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Patient preferences for physician characteristics in university-based primary care clinics.

OBJECTIVE: To examine patient preferences for age-,gender-, and racial/ethnic-concordant primary care physicians. DESIGN: Focus group interviews. PATIENTS AND SETTING: Forty-nine adults (African Americans, Caucasians, and Latinos) receiving their ...
Jorge A García, Debora A Paterniti, Patrick S Romano, Richard L Kravitz (Ethn Dis, 2003SPRING)
patient-preferences-physician-characteristics-university-based.asp

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Dreaming big dreams: the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine.

The University of Alabama School of Medicine has a rich legacy dating back almost 150 years to Antebellum Mobile and the original Medical College of Alabama. The schools success helped transform Birmingham from a city rooted in the steel industry to one ...
Laura A Mansfield (South Med J, 200308)
dreaming-big-dreams-university-alabama-birmingham-school-medicine.asp

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Integrating an academic radiation safety program into an environmental management system.

The Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) Program at the University of South Carolina recently developed an environmental management system (EMS) based on the ISO 14001 International Standard. Since our radiation safety program must already meet strict ...
Daniel M Zurosky (Health Phys, 200308)
integrating-academic-radiation-safety-program-environmental.asp

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Training in pathology informatics: implementation at the University of Pittsburgh.

CONTEXT: Pathology informatics is generally recognized as an important component of pathology training, but the scope, form, and goals of informatics training vary substantially between pathology residency programs. The Training and Education Committee ...
James H Harrison, Jimmie Stewart (Arch Pathol Lab Med, 200308)
training-pathology-informatics-implementation-university-pittsburgh.asp

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Line bisection-based hemisphericity estimates of university students and professionals: evidence of sorting during higher education and career selection.

Recently, hemisphericity has been assessed by six intercorrelated methods. Here, one of these, the "Best Hand Test," a two-hand line bisection-based biophysical method relatively independent of language, culture, or education, was applied to the ...
Bruce E Morton (Brain Cogn, 200308)
line-bisection-based-hemisphericity-estimates-university-students.asp

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Predicting vigorous physical activity using social cognitive theory.

OBJECTIVE: To test Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) in predicting future vigorous physical activity among college students. METHODS: College students (n=350) completed a set of instruments measuring SCT constructs. Their vigorous physical activity was ...
R Lingyak Petosa, Rick Suminski, Brian Hortz (Am J Health Behav, 200307-08)
predicting-vigorous-physical-activity-social-cognitive-theory.asp

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Defining and managing biohazardous waste in U.S. research-oriented universities: a survey of environmental health and safety professionals.

A survey was conducted of environmental health and safety professionals responsible for biohazardous waste management at 122 institutions. The overall response rate was 82.6 percent (100 out of 122). Results indicate that university policies for ...
Robin Lyn Mecklem, Catherine M Neumann (J Environ Health, 200307-08)
defining-managing-biohazardous-waste-u-s-research-oriented.asp

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A longitudinal perspective on dating violence among adolescent and college-age women.

OBJECTIVES: We investigated physical assault in dating relationships and its co-occurrence with sexual assault from high school through college. METHODS: Two classes of university women (n = 1569) completed 5 surveys during their 4 years in college. ...
Paige Hall Smith, Jacquelyn W White, Lindsay J Holland (Am J Public Health, 200307)
longitudinal-perspective-dating-violence-adolescent-college-age-women.asp