the effect of portfolio educational plan on the perception of nursing students in a clinical educational environment: based on dreem model     habibzade h [1] *, kazemi n [2] , mhammadpr y [3] , khalkhali hr [4]     received: 29 nov , 2012 accepted: 13 feb , 2013     abstract:   background & aims : clinical education is a complex process with various factors. the portfolio program is considered...

introduction  self-efficacy in clinical performance had an important role in applying competencies; also competencies and self-efficacy in clinical performance influenced to quality care of nursing and midwifery students. so the present study aimed to define the relationship between clinical competencies and clinical self-efficacy among nursing and midwifery students. materials and methods  thi...

Clinical research requires a secure working environment for data management tasks. Traditionally, this was achieved by using closed systems not accessible via network communication. More recently, however, as research projects especially in the academic setting take on more distributed forms with partners working in different institutions and/or locations, closed environments may no longer be f...

Data mining has had wide adoption in recent years in many industries, largely because of the ability of mining techniques to rapidly yield answers to business questions in a short time and the availability of large quantities of data to exploit. This paper will discuss the topic of data and text mining in general, before focusing on applications in the clinical research field. Of particular int...

Privacy protection of medical records has always been an important issue and is mandated by the recent Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) standards. In this paper, we propose security architectures for a tele-referring system that allows electronic group communication among professionals for better quality treatments, while protecting patient privacy against unauthorize...

Clinical learning occurs in the context of a dynamic environment. Learning environment found to be one of the most important factors in determining the success of an effective teaching program. To investigate, from the attending and resident's perspective, factors that may affect student leaning in the educational hospital setting at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (SUMS). This study comb...

When choosing an electromagnetic tracking system (EMTS) for image-guided procedures several factors must be taken into consideration. Among others these include the system's refresh rate, the number of sensors that need to be tracked, the size of the navigated region, the system interaction with the environment, whether the sensors can be embedded into the tools and provide the desired transfor...