The Challenge of the Future to Medical Education.

Need Assessment of the General Practitioner's Curriculum Based on Clinical Activities, Advocacy, Research, and Education (CARE) Model

Background: Social responsiveness of the curriculum is aimed at directing all medical education activities to the training of physicians able to meet the health needs of the target community. Since medical education has moved towards a community-centered and community-based approach, significant attention has been paid to the concept of social responsiveness of medical education. Therefore, the...

Simulation- Based Education

Background: Quality improvement in higher education is one of the approaches which is taken into consideration in many higher education systems in recent decades. On the other hand, to respond to the rapid changes in the medical field, medical education should be changed and new training methods should be used. One of these methods is simulation-based training. Methods: This is a review a...

A Comparative, descriptive study of the e-Learning deployment solutions in the field of medical education

Background: E-Learning training is programs based on the electronic device. University of medical sciences for health services have need of training human resources specialist. According to importance of technology, identifying electronic components, medical education and use of technology leads to the cause of education and the quality of the training. Methods: Descriptive-comparative st...

The renewal of medical education in Iran: progress and challenge

Strategies to curb young researchers from predatory publishers

This letter addresses the current scenario ofpredatory publishers in the medical fieldand strategies to curb young researchers frompredatory publishing. Today, the increasingtrend and magnitude of predatory publishershave proposed a big challenge to youngresearchers in the medical field (1). Predatorypublishers are publishers which publish paperswith questionable peer review, charge enormouspub...

A Case Report of Neonatal Pediculosis: A Simple Challenge, yet Complex

Background: Neonatal pediculosis is a problem the magnitude of which has not been estimated; however, it is regarded as a diagnostic challenge and becomes one of the management challenges for which there are very few managementoptions in terms of age, gestation, and the potential effects of drug toxicity.Case report: Here, we report a case of preterm who developed pediculosis capitis in t...