Progress of Iran in Medical Research.

The Condition of Learning styles, Student Engagement and its Relationship with Academic Progress in Birjand University of Medical Sciences

Abstract Introduction and Purpose: Students’ academic progress in the universities of medical sciences and its related factors is one of the priorities of researches in education. Learning styles and students engagement are the influential factors of this variable. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the condition of learning styles and student engagement and its rel...

The renewal of medical education in Iran: progress and challenge

Trend of disability prevalence in Iran: An evidence to improve disability data

Accurate, comparable, and accessible health care data play an important role in the planning, policy making, development and maintenance of health care services.[10,11] Internationally, methodologies for collecting data on people with disabilities need to be developed, tested cross-culturally and applied consistently. Data need to be standardized and internationally comparable to benchmark and ...

Investigating the Relationship between Smartphone Addiction and Loneliness and its Impact on Motivation to Progress in High School Students

Background: Problematic use of new communication technologies, such as smartphone, declines social relationships and increases loneliness. The purpose of the study was to determine the relationship between smartphone addiction and loneliness, the motivation to progress and other relevant variables among high school students. Materials and Methods:<b...

Traffic accidents in Iran, a decade of progress but still challenges ahead

  Iran has had incremental incidence of traffic accident mortality since introduction of mechanization about a century ago. But the newest data from Iran show decrease in the absolute number of deaths, death per 10,000 vehicles and death per 100, 000 populations. Despite its huge impact on health and economy, research in the field of traffic crashes is still scant and there are still deficienci...

The Islamic Revolution of Iran and migration of physicians to the United States.

Following the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran, the trend of migration of physicians from the country continued. The total number of Iranian physicians migrated to the United States (US) increased from 1625 before revolution in 1974, to 5045 in 2010, thirty years post-revolution. The percentage of medical graduates migrating to the US, in the same period dropped from 15% to 5%. The reasons fo...