Taking the Pulse of Black Faculty at U.S. Medical Schools

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education;  October 1, 2005 ;     140 words ......were 748 black faculty members at U.S. medical schools. Over the next...were 2,512 black faculty members at U.S. medical schools. They made up...were 3,536 black faculty members at U.S. medical schools. They made up...

U.S. Medical Schools Cited For Lack of Diversity Among Faculty

Washington Informer;  September 10, 1998 ;     239 words ...Washington Informer 09-10-1998 U.S. Medical Schools Cited For Lack of Diversity Among Faculty The lack of minorities in senior faculty positions at U.S. medical schools demands the immediate attention of the leadership...in the September 2 Journal of the American Medical ...

News and Views: Reviewing the Progress of Black Faculty at U.S. Medical...

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education;  July 31, 1999 ;     700+ words ......African Americans teaching at U.S. medical schools. Today black men hold 59 percent...the three historically black medical schools: Howard, Morehouse, and Meharry...faculty at predominantly white medical schools. There are only 161 black full professors at these medical ...

Generalist grants: Robert Wood Johnson funds training for primary care....

Modern Healthcare;  June 30, 1997 ;     573 words ......generalists, who are junior faculty members at medical schools around the country...For those junior faculty members struggling to establish...professor. Paid to the medical schools over four years, each...costs for the selected faculty members. For ...

Does the Ivory Tower Need Ramps? Penn Initiative Leads to Survey of...

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  December 20, 2002 ;     700+ words ......individual's life, but even medical school faculty members facing the onset of such...expectations of disabled medical faculty as they persevere...the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Anecdotal reports suggest that many medical faculty members ...

Noncore Faculty Members' Roles: Expectations and System Stress

The Educational Forum;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......increasingly are using contingent faculty members to instruct students. Contingent faculty members bring expertise and knowledge. However...roles and expectations of contingent faculty members must be defined clearly and recognized...

A JBHE Check-Up on Blacks in U.S. Medical Schools

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......an increasing number of blacks in medical schools, recent years have seen a significant...progress at the nation's highest-ranked medical schools. And contrary to public beliefs, blacks who are admitted to these top medical institutions are graduating at a...blacks make up only 4 percent of ...

Technology use in the classroom: preferences of management faculty...

Journal of Education for Business;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......this study, the authors investigated faculty members' preferences regarding the use of...They mailed surveys to 500 management faculty members nation wide: 124 were returned with...constraint was an issue for most of the faculty members, particularly for women. Female ...

Women docs cite pervasive bias at medical schools.(News)

The Boston Herald;  June 6, 2000 ;     332 words ......24 of the nation's leading medical schools found pervasive discrimination...Internal Medicine, found female faculty members were 2 1/2 times as likely...The issue of gender bias in medical schools has broad impact, Carr said...

Identifying and Weighting Teaching and Scholarship Activities Among...

American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......of activities performed by faculty members in the areas of teaching and scholarship. Methods. A panel of faculty members diverse in rank, gender, and...faculty. Twenty-three of 33 faculty members responded to an anonymous questionnaire...

PROMOTION OF MINORITIES AT MEDICAL SCHOOLS IS AT ISSUE IN STUDY

The Boston Globe;  September 6, 2000 ;     634 words ...Minority faculty members are less likely...professorships at US medical schools than their white...see that minority faculty members are "not rewarded...145 full-time US medical school faculty members who became associate...

New Frugality of Health Care Hurts Research Funding, Medical Schools Say

The Washington Post;  August 18, 1996 ;     700+ words ......associated hospital, whose faculty members are on salary. When those...as fee levels shrink, faculty members must devote more of their...group for the nation's medical schools. The total of national...nearly as imperiled as medical schools claim. They say many ...

U. Virginia faculty members may face challenging road to tenure

University Wire;  September 21, 1999 ;     686 words ......Prof. Kenneth G. Elzinga defined tenure as "a faculty appointment to the University without term." Sharon W. Utz, Faculty Senate secretary and Nursing professor, said...also consists of "peer evaluations by other faculty who came to your class, public examples of...period is completed, a committee of ...

Concern aired on deteriorating state of medical schools in RP.(Metro &...

Manila Bulletin;  August 13, 2004 ;     381 words ......deteriorating state of medical schools in the country including...unchecked proliferation of medical schools and the pirating of faculty members from established schools...PBL) employed in some medical schools is somehow contributing...mainly because only 19 ...

States plan med schools to bolster workforce: with physician shortages...

Clinical Psychiatry News;  June 1, 2006 ;     684 words ......states are in the process of adding new medical schools to shore up expected shortfalls in...expansion of existing schools, Florida's medical schools will more than double enrollment...approved proposals to set up two more medical schools, one at Florida International University...