Evaluation of an internal medicine residency curriculum from trainees' perspective: A qualitative study from a developing country

Do community medicine residency trainees learn through journal club? An experience from a developing country

BACKGROUND Journal clubs are an internationally recognized teaching tool in many postgraduate medical education fields. In developing countries lack of funds for current print materials may have limited journal club use. But with advancing information technology trainees in developing countries increasingly have more access to high quality journals online. However, we are aware of no studies de...

Evaluation of a Curriculum in an Internal Medicine Residency and Patient-Centered Medical Home Rotation

Introduction: The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model aims to transform primary care by delivering high-quality, safe, comprehensive, patient-centered, and accessible care. Few evaluations of PCMH curricula for internal medicine residency programs have been published. The objective of this study was to develop and implement a PCMH curriculum, a new PCMH rotation, and to redesign the resi...

Smartphone Overuse from Iranian University Students’ Perspective: A Qualitative Study

Optimization strategies for presenting a Narrative Medicine Course from the perspective of medical interns: a qualitative study

Introduction and Aim: Narrative medicine was introduced in 2000 as an approach to effective practice and humanism in medicine. A narrative approach was presented as a training course in order to improve the professionalism of medical interns in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. The aim of this study was to describe the optimization strategies for presenting a narrative medicine educationa...

Patients’ Awareness of Their Rights: Insight from a Developing Country

Background Considering the effect of human right observance on patients’ satisfaction from the treatment process, in Iran the Patient Rights Charter (PRC) was developed by the Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOHME) in 2001 and enforced to all hospitals across the country. The purpose of the current study was to evaluate patients’ awareness of their rights based on PRC in two tertiary ...