Preface: Case Studies of Medical Education Research Groups

Case studies and medical education.

In this issue of the journal Christopher Coope presents three sorts of worries about the use of case studies in medical ethics teaching. The first is that heavy reliance on case studies 'tends to exaggerate the degree to which morality is controversial'; the second is that 'it is often quite unclear what problems count as moral problems'; the third is that there are 'limits as to what we may re...

Quality of published Iranian medical education research studies: a systematic review

  Background :Research in medical education has been paid more attention than before however the quality of research reporting has not been comprehensively appraised.To evaluate the methodological and reporting quality of Iranian published medical education articles.   Methods: Articles describing medical students, residents, fellows or program evaluation were included. Articles related to cont...

Preface: Medical education and the goals of medicine

The Case for Case-Control Studies in Medical Research

While preparing for this day, I have pondered, how can medical statistics help improve the state of medical care? The potential for better medical care is dependent on the scientific temper of our medical profession. The question is how can we improve the scientific temper? The search for evidence is fundamental to the practice of modern day medicine. There is now a movement towards evidence ba...

Case Studies in Tele-Education: Research and Projects

ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) are a very important educational resource at the present time because they allow place and time limitations to be overcome and therefore reduce costs. In addition, multimedia applications offer a set of characteristics in order to improve learning by means of interactive activities. For these reasons, we believe it is important to devote efforts ...