IMPLEMENTATION OF FACULTY LEARNING COMMUNITIES TO SUPPORT MEDICAL EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP IN A REGIONAL CAMPUS SYSTEM

Implementation of Faculty Learning Communities to Support Medical Education Scholarship in a Regional Campus System

Introduction: Medical educators need targeted faculty development programs to give them the skills necessary to vista 5 vl5 produce educational scholarship for promotion and tenure.At the Indiana University School of Medicine, which encompasses a large regional campus system, we implemented Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) to provide a platform

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Photoactivity of Titanium Dioxide Foams

TiO2 foams have been prepared by a simple mechanical stirring method.Short-chain amphiphilic molecules have been used to stabilize colloidal suspensions of TiO2 nanoparticles.TiO2 foams were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), UV-vis absorption spectroscopy, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM).The ph

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Prevalence of trypanosomes, salivary gland hypertrophy virus and Wolbachia in wild populations of tsetse flies from West Africa

Abstract Background Tsetse flies are vectors of African trypanosomes, protozoan parasites that cause sleeping sickness (or human African trypanosomosis) in humans and nagana (or animal African trypanosomosis) in livestock.In addition to trypanosomes, four symbiotic bacteria Wigglesworthia glossinidia, Sodalis glossinidius, Wolbachia, Spiroplasma an

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