BACKGROUND The evidence supporting the effectiveness of educational games in graduate medical education is limited. Anecdotal reports suggest their popularity in that setting. The objective of this study was to explore the support for and the different aspects of use of educational games in family medicine and internal medicine residency programs in the United States. METHODS We conducted a s...

BACKGROUND Between 30 and 40 % of patients with severe injuries receive treatment at non-trauma centers (under-triage), largely because of physician decision making. Existing interventions to improve triage by physicians ignore the role that intuition (heuristics) plays in these decisions. One such heuristic is to form an initial impression based on representativeness (how typical does a patien...

BACKGROUND Primary care physicians' adherence to accepted asthma guidelines is necessary for the proper care of asthma patients. OBJECTIVES To investigate the compliance of primary care physicians with clinical guidelines for asthma treatment and their participation in related educational programs, and to evaluate the influence of their employment status. METHODS A questionnaire was adminis...

Background: Work-family conflict is one of the components which have been paid attention in the present era due to changes and evolutions taken place in the field of work nature. Objectives: The present research was conducted by the aim of investigating the effect of relationship enhancement on solving work-family conflict. Methods: This is a quasi-experimental study with pretest post-tes...

the current research analyzed and combined the results of research on the effect of family education in parenting using meta-analysis method. among 26 studies about family education 20 were selected, for meta-analysis study in terms of different parts of research methodology such as research and hypotheses questions, statistic society, sampling, and research method, instruments statistical meth...

background: health and security is one of component of human rights in society and the government to ensure it is up to society. from the perspective of the world health organization, family medicine is heart of global efforts to improve service quality, reduce costs, enhance effectiveness and equality of health care system. but without the participation of stakeholders and social change in beh...

Child and mother outcomes are reported for the Abecedarian Project, an early childhood education, pediatric healthcare, and family support program for high-risk children and their mothers. Three randomized intervention conditions for at-risk participants were compared to a control condition. Randomized control group participants received family support social services, low-cost or free pediatri...

background: development of a manual or well‑defined criterion for prioritizing the topics of clinical practice guidelines (cpgs) will help validate and organize this process evermore. this study was conducted to design an applicable manual that would prioritize the cpg topics for family physicians. methods: this study was a multi‑stage method using a qualitative approach that was conducted for ...