Universities - Research News and Information

Sunday, October 12, 2008

The changing relationships between academic health centers and their universities: a look at the University of Pennsylvania.

Sep 2008 After a period of financial losses in the University of Pennsylvania Health System stemming from a combination of internal decision making and negative external market forces, the university set out to make substantial... Read more...

[Scholastics, medicine and university]

19 Aug 2008 The first european universities were founded during the 12th century. Teaching was based upon the scholastic method, which includes the lectio, the quaestio, the disputatio, and the quaestio disputata de quolibet. In... Read more...

Credit card debt, stress and key health risk behaviors among college students.

6 Aug 2008 PURPOSE: To examine cross-sectional associations between credit card debt, stress, and health risk behaviors among college students, focusing particularly on weight-related behaviors. DESIGN: Random-sample, mailed... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Universities'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Dental School Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Residency Training Program. Sep 2008
• The changing relationships between academic health centers and their universities: a look at the University of Pennsylvania. Sep 2008
• Dissension in the ranks. 21 Aug 2008
• [Scholastics, medicine and university] 19 Aug 2008
• Molecular biology. Universities join the screening bandwagon. 8 Aug 2008
• Interdisciplinary science: Harvard under review. 7 Aug 2008
• Credit card debt, stress and key health risk behaviors among college students. 6 Aug 2008
• Research in the Department of Pathology at the University of Utah. Aug 2008
• The internet as a source of health information in three disparate communities. Aug 2008
• Evaluating minority retention programs: problems encountered and lessons learned from the Ohio science and engineering alliance. Aug 2008
• Hurricane Katrina and the Louisiana State University-New Orleans Department of Medicine: rebuilding, recruiting, and renewing. Aug 2008
• Expanding public health education in the years following Katrina. Aug 2008
• Three years after Hurricane Katrina: advancements in ACGME competency-based training in the internal medicine residency program at Louisiana State University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Aug 2008
• Surviving disaster: assessment of obstetrics and gynecology training at Louisiana State University-New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina. Aug 2008
• Exporting the Western university. Aug 2008
• A positive response to a terrible tragedy. Aug 2008
• U.S. research earmarks. Building a scientific legacy on a controversial foundation. 25 Jul 2008
• Academic life: the whole package. 25 Jul 2008
• [The teaching of physiology on the Medical Faculty of the Moscow University in XVIII century] 25 Jul 2008
• Affymetrix in new patents row. 24 Jul 2008

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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