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I recognised that I was unwell. I consulted my GP at the Rothesay health Centre, who referred me to a cardiologist in Greenock where I had a treadmill and other tests and I then discussed the outcome with a GP in the practice.He said I could go to the Jubilee for a bypass. My wife asked what were the other options. I could go to another area, or get it done privately.I knew that Borders had recently got a new scanner, and perhaps not yet built up a caseload. I said that the Jubilee has a catchment area of two million people with the worst cardiac disease in the EU if not the world, so where else should I go?I spent a whole day in the Jubilee, and traveling there and back. I counted 14 pre-admission tests including for infections I could be bringing into the hospital and the MRI.I don’t remember how long it was from the MRI to the operation, but we think it was about a fortnight and I certainly had the impression that the information I was given on leaving on the day of the tests was informed by the MRI result, and my GP would have been sent the results electronically the same day.The target time from referral to admission was 18 weeks, but from first making a GP appointment to discharge after an 8 day hospital stay was no more than 14 weeks, so against the target maybe half the target.My 70 yo wife was in hospital for a long time - 5 days. At her 8 week check up she had to complete a questionnaire, ticking boxes showing what she could do. There wasn’t a box to tick for climbing up scaffolding to clean off render from the soffits, which she had been doing the previous weekend.It certainly seemed a same day result for the MRI and I think that waiting for it was why I was given lunch in a day room before being sent home,The MRI was busy that day due to an equipment failure delay, but they caught up.My wife and I (Health Board Treasurer and Midwife) both had major surgery (Triple bypass and titanium hip) in the Jubilee. We have seen good and bad in hospitals in this country and abroad. At one point in my career I supervised teams of auditors inspecting systems and at another was part of the management team responsible for what was rated the worst hospital in Scotland.We are adamant that we can recognise a bad hospital when we see it. Does that men that we can also recognise a good one? We would not have imagined the excellence of the quality of the service if we had not seen it for ourselves.I even overheard nurses in their break praising the administration.The food was good, Only the food was only good.Post operative I was having a bad day. I was passed in a corridor by an ultrasound technician with whom I had had a brief conversation on the pre-admission day.She asked how I was doing, with genuine compassion.I had to ask someone who she was.I wept.The nurse who discharged my wife told me that staff morale was good. “Of course it is! I almost shouted at him“If you have large numbers of people in related professions all trying to do work of the highest professional standard and be respected by their colleagues, it is not possible that it can be otherwise.Unfortunately the converse is also true.”The overarching aim is to do what they do better than they did it yesterday.If that cuts patient stay, we don’t need so many beds and that means a capital saving as well as a revenue saving.If you are a UK citizen, and need cardiac surgery or a new hip, I can tell you how to get referred to the Jubilee, even post independence.

Let’s say your best friend was studying for a PhD, and one day said, “To Hell with it. I”m outta here.” Not only have you lost the daily company of your best friend, but the academic community has lost a potentially important contributor to the field, and the University has lost a student in whom it has already made a substantial investment of funds and valuable faculty time. So you decide to find out why this happened, and how it could be fixed. To begin: 1) you read everything you can find published about the reasons PhD student’s drop out. That’s called a literature review or a Lit review for short. In other words, you check to see what’s already been done, and also what you can build on in your own research. The Lit review may give you enough information to make up a questionnaire that you send to every PhD “drop out.” Somewhere, sometime, somebody may have done what’s called a qualitative research study and interviewed 100 or so former PhD students and asked, “Why did you drop out?” After a while, the answers begin to repeat. “I was out of money.” “Family problems.” “I lost interest in what I was studying.” “My adviser doesn’t love me.” So you use that study and similar studies to develop a questionnaire where you provide questions such as How often have you considered dropping out of the PhD Program for financial reasons? You provide a response scale that provides possible responses of often, sometimes,infrequently,almost never, never. Now you have a questionnaire that you can send to many more people and that is easy to analyze statistically. Again, the two most important reasons for the Lit review is to find out what’s been done, and to see what you can “build on.”Now to the theoretical framework. A theoretical framework help us organize our data in order to understand, explain, and most important of all…PREDICT (in this case) what we have labeled PhD Student Persistence behavior.So now you, as a smart researcher have to tell us mere mortals how to cope with this drop out problem by predicting in advance who is likely to drop out. A meaningful way to do this is to interpret our results in terms of an existing well-accepted framework such as motivation theory, or leadership theory or goal theory,or even invent your own theory. OK. Now predict who is likely to stay in the program. Easy, those who have enough money, are challenged to achieve, and have a nurturing , strong family support. You now run the numbers in a multiple regression and find the relative weights of your variables, and find that money or lack thereof is the most important cause of drop outs.OK, that’s the motivation perspective. How about from the Dean’s Leadership perspective? The Dean wants to predict who is going to stay in the program and graduate. S/he is asking , “What can I do as the senior academic leader to keep this excellent future researcher here? Answer: Do pre admission interviews to evaluate career goals , provide an assistantship, nurturing faculty Advisers, and family housing for married graduate students. My favorite theoretical model is the A*O*M (ability, opportunity, motivation model of performance) but there are many that would be suitable as long as it is predictive.

My journey with the Admission Counseling from GREedge was good and I currently have an admit from Northeastern University for masters engineering management. I did my undergraduate from Pandit deendayal petroleum university,Gujarat. Before going for counselling I had done a lot of research about my course at various universities. So practically I knew almost all the colleges out there and of course knew about the things I’d need, for applying. I wanted to choose the colleges which were best for my profile. So after a great deal of thought, I enrolled in for the Dream University program in greedge. After that I was assigned a ASFA.After long conversations, I was provided with a list of universities with an obvious classification of Ambitious, Moderate and Safe. Any person who has done a basic research would be able t classify the universities.What I was really looking for was, based on my profile, among the ambitious which ones I had highest chances of getting into. Although Gredge helped me with the classification of the universities but even oneself should be doing their homework before going to any counselor. So as far as SOP, LOR is concerned , I attempted writing my own SOP. I didn’t even know where to start. I was stuck, for weeks and I just couldn’t get that push to write my essay. This is what I liked best about GreEdge. They had this exhaustive questionnaire, which helped me revisit my past and list out all the achievements that I had done, why you chose, what you chose, your plans etc. So, I got a rough draft from them which they had composed by taking reference from my questionnaire. What I really liked about them was that after the Master draft, they had customized one for each university as well based on their requirements. This draft was obviously not my final SOP. I had almost multiple edits after my first draft, but what it essentially did was give me a start. Same was the case with LORs. Shortlisting the final universities will honestly come down to you. You have to go to each university’s website, look at their research; speak to the current students there (connect with them on LinkedIn), know what your dream job is and see if that course in that university will help you get there. What GreEdge provides is an Admission Tracker where in you find details of all the universities . So you don’t really have to go to each of their website and check basic information like tuition, specializations, location, etc. They have a really good support team, so in case you have any issues at all, you get a call from them within hours to rectify it.The pre-visa stage was of great help. They had a nice To-Do Checklist for documents and also conducted Mock interviews which helped me prepare well for the questions. They also have a very didactic webinars that give you a detailed idea about the whole admission process, selecting universities, which country , visa preparation and pre-deprature things. In the end I would really like to thanks my ASFA smriti Sharma.