Universities - Organization & administration
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

The departmental chair in Western medicine: tale of the first and foremost. Historical vignette.

30 Oct 2009 The use of the term "chair" in medical literature probably started in the Late Middle Ages with the Italian anatomist Mondino de Liuzzi. History reveals the term's origin at Bologna, one of the oldest degree-granting universities in Europe. Nobody ... Read more...

A framework for managing core facilities within the research enterprise.

30 Aug 2009 Core facilities represent increasingly important operational and strategic components of institutions' research enterprises, especially in biomolecular science and engineering disciplines. With this realization, many research institutions are ... Read more...

[The relationship between the medical school and the university]

30 Aug 2009 University medicine is presented as a relationship of three partners: the university hospital, the medical school, and the university as a whole. The university gains from the interdisciplinary potential of the medical school in teaching and ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Universities - Organization & administration'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The departmental chair in Western medicine: tale of the first and foremost. Historical vignette. 30 Oct 2009
• RSO Interview with Nazia Zakir. Interviewed by René Michel. 30 Oct 2009
• Science education. The big gamble in the Saudi desert. 14 Oct 2009
• Profile: Kim Chin-Kyung. The force behind North Korea's new science university. 23 Sep 2009
• Choon Fong Shih. Interviewed by Daniel Cressey. 15 Sep 2009
• A framework for managing core facilities within the research enterprise. 30 Aug 2009
• [The relationship between the medical school and the university] 30 Aug 2009
• Organizing for innovation: towards successful translational research. 12 Aug 2009
• Indian university system overhauled. 30 Jun 2009
• The International Universities Walking Project: development of a framework for workplace intervention using the Delphi technique. 29 Jun 2009
• Anatomical education: a team effort. 29 Jun 2009
• The benefits of a leadership program and executive coaching for new nursing academic administrators: one college's experience. 29 Jun 2009
• Educational program emergency planning. 29 Jun 2009
• A description of the Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine-Massachusetts Equine Clinic combined equine medicine internship program. 29 Jun 2009
• Research productivity of MD-PhDs. 29 Jun 2009
• Common ground: an investigation of environmental management alcohol prevention initiatives in a college community. 29 Jun 2009
• NIAAA's rapid response to college drinking problems initiative: reinforcing the use of evidence-based approaches in college alcohol prevention. 29 Jun 2009
• Alcohol poisoning among college students turning 21: do they recognize the symptoms and how do they help? 29 Jun 2009
• Effects of residential learning communities on drinking trajectories during the first two years of college. 29 Jun 2009
• Developing and testing a student-focussed teaching evaluation survey for university instructors. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Universities'

Definition: Educational institutions providing facilities for teaching and research and authorized to grant academic degrees.

Descriptor UI: D014495

Alternative terms: Universities; University;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: I02.783.850;

Technical Notes: IM; Manual 30.8, 36.18; specify locale if pertinent; colleges as educ institutions go here: do not confuse with bodies such as "College of Physicians" which are indexed under SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), under US Dept of Defense, goes under SCHOOLS, MEDICAL + UNITED STATES; DF: UNIV