Universities

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Introducing practice-based learning and improvement ACGME core competencies into a family medicine residency curriculum.

BACKGROUND: The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) recommends integrating improvement activities into residency training. A curricular change was designed at the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of ...
Mary Thoesen Coleman, Soraya Nasraty, Michael Ostapchuk, Stephen Wheeler, Stephen Looney, Sandra Rhodes (Jt Comm J Qual Saf, 200305)
introducing-practice-based-learning-improvement-acgme-core.asp

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Volunteer environmental monitoring and the role of the universities: the case of Citizens Environment Watch.

Universities can provide a stable home for launching collaborative community research projects. Citizens Environment Watch (CEW), an environmental monitoring initiative based at the University of Toronto, has made significant contributions to ...
Beth Savan, Alexis J Morgan, Christopher Gore (Environ Manage, 200305)
volunteer-environmental-monitoring-role-universities-case-citizens.asp

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Descriptive and injunctive norms in college drinking: a meta-analytic integration.

OBJECTIVE: Many college students overestimate both the drinking behaviors (descriptive norms) and the approval of drinking (injunctive norms) of their peers. As a result, consistent self-other discrepancies (SODs) have been observed, in which ...
Brian Borsari, Kate B Carey (J Stud Alcohol, 200305)
descriptive-injunctive-norms-college-drinking-meta-analytic.asp

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A scope-of-practice survey leading to the development of standards of practice for health promotion in higher education.

To review and analyze the scope of practice of health promotion services and draft standards of quality indicators for higher education communities, the American College Health Association (ACHA) initiated a Task Force on Health Promotion in Higher ...
Christine G Zimmer, Martin H Hill, Subhash R Sonnad (J Am Coll Health, 200305)
scope-practice-survey-leading-development-standards-practice-health.asp

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A collaborative student affairs and faculty health assessment and intervention initiative.

The authors describe a collaborative partnership forged between faculty and student affairs staff to improve student health at a large urban university. They examine skills and reward structures of each constituency and the stages of the collaboration in ...
Carol H Ott, Carol Haertlein, Donald H Craig (J Am Coll Health, 200305)
collaborative-student-affairs-faculty-health-assessment-intervention.asp

36.

Development of a laser entryway safety control system in the research university setting.

Industry consensus guidance and good health physics practice dictate laser entryway safety controls for laboratories housing Class 4 laser controlled areas. The design and installation of an effective laser entryway safety control system presents several ...
Ben Edwards, Michael Stenner, Thomas Park (Health Phys, 200305)
development-laser-entryway-safety-control-system-research-university.asp

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Privacy and research involving humans.

Human research ethics committees in Australia are required to consider compliance with privacy law as an element of the ethics of research. Recent legislation has introduced federal private sector privacy protection, as well as privacy protection at ...
Beth Gaze (J Law Med, 200305)
privacy-research-involving-humans.asp

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Field assessment of BAC data to study late-night college drinking.

OBJECTIVE: This field study of late-night college drinking sought to (1) test the ability of the 5+/4+ measure to screen for higher levels of intoxication and (2) examine the relation between estimated and actual blood alcohol concentration (BAC). ...
Dennis L Thombs, R Scott Olds, Barbara M Snyder (J Stud Alcohol, 200305)
field-assessment-bac-data-study-late-night-college-drinking.asp

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Multiphasic epidemiological analyses on smoking habits among undergraduate students in Japan.

Little is known about the prevalence and dynamics of smoking habits among university students in Japan, and their association with other lifestyle parameters and biological markers. Data on undergraduate students were here extracted from the ...
Tetsuhisa Kitamura, Takashi Kawamura, Mitsuru Aono, Kazumi Takemoto, Masahiko Ando, Takashi Okada, Yuko Takahashi (Asian Pac J Cancer Prev, 200304-06)
multiphasic-epidemiological-analyses-smoking-habits-undergraduate.asp

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An investigation into the physical accessibility to wheelchair bound students of an Institution of Higher Education in South Africa.

PURPOSE: A descriptive cross-sectional study was undertaken to establish the ease of accessibility to wheelchair bound students of the campus of a large institution of higher education in South Africa. Accessibility was defined not simply in terms of ...
L-O Losinsky, T Levi, K Saffey, J Jelsma (Disabil Rehabil, 200304)
investigation-physical-accessibility-wheelchair-bound-students.asp