Many of the policy wonks, politicos and academics I encounter here seem resigned to failure.
The physician intervention entailed one-on-one academic detailing encounters covering the same topics.
This paper discusses the naïvety of a new academic, issues encountered in the first year of a lecturing post and the efforts put into writing and compiling a new, core, final year, undergraduate module.
His reward was failure and opprobrium [ 6], and academic medicine encountered a Congress increasingly determined to surround clinical research with an ever-growing net of regulation.
Changing medical student attitudes cannot be done in isolation and should be a component of a comprehensive organizational approach that involves leadership and faculty role models to shape the culture throughout all the clinical and academic venues encountered by students.
Muralidhar says that she had begun to notice early in grad school that many of the academics she encountered didn't seem happy or professionally fulfilled.
When British academics first encountered the vast spiritual traditions of the Indian subcontinent -- which they collectively labeled Hinduism -- they unleashed the type of venom that can only come from people who are terrified of what they do not understand.
One of the problems with human evolution, as opposed to, say, rocket science, is that everybody feels that their opinion has value irrespective of their prior knowledge (the outraged academic in the encounter above was a scientist, but not a biologist, still less an evolutionary biologist).
Enrollment of English as Second Language nursing students is increasing; however, these students often encounter academic difficulties.
When females encounter academic tasks that are difficult, they risk validating their inferior intellectual acumen.
On the whole, the students were doing well enough in elementary school that the researchers expected only about 20percentt of them to encounter academic difficulties later.
