the medical education exists to maintain and regulate the standards of medical practice, protect the interests of the patients, supervise medical students, and give guidelines on ethical issues. the educational ethics provide general guidelines, and any disciplinary designated and will judge each case on its merits. this is not a comprehensive document and interpretation will depend upon circum...

background: university entrance is accompanied by major changes in social relationship, rules, and expectations that lead to psychological disorders in susceptible students. the goal of this research is to study the anxiety rate in iranian medical residents in 2010‑2011. methods: this study is a cross‑sectional, descriptive study. it contains 370 medical residents from the 1st year to the 4th y...

purpose: this article presents the results of study aimed at devising comprehensive, standard and objective criteria for measuring faculty members' workload. material & method: the indicators for measuring faculty members' workload were collected through a comprehensive review of the literature, a survey of the available documents and methods for measuring workload in the country, and faculty m...

background and purpose: there is an increasing interest and concern regarding the role of learning environment in undergraduate medical education in recent years. educational environment is one of the most important factors determining the success of an effective curriculum. the quality of educational environment has been identified to be crucial for effective learning.we compared the perceptio...

introduction: hospitals are responsible to respond to legitimate demands for health information release while protecting the confidentiality of patient health records. this study investigated and compared laws and policies of health information disclosure for legal authorities in iran and some selected countries. methods: this descriptive-comparative study included health information disclosure...

aim and background: every year, smoking and its related diseases account for the death of at least four million people around the world. this risky behavior is growing among young educated people. the present study examined factors affecting medical students’ tendency of to smoke. methods and materials: this cross-sectional study included 305 medical students in isfahan university of medical sc...

background: training provided in medical faculties is mainly composed of two phases: preclinical and clinical. preclinical period, or the first three years, consists of theoretical classes and practical implementations to develop vocational skills. in the clinical period, students are given applied courses. objectives: this study aimed to determine the role of demographic characteristics and me...

introduction: the present study aimed to find an appropriate method to inform senior high school students to correctly select their academic field of study and their intentions. methods: this is a descriptive-analytic and cross-sectional study. a verified questionnaire was given to a total of 2600 students selected by stratified random sampling method (ten different colleges and entrance year f...

introduction: triage is a response to the problem of overcrowding in emergency departments (eds) and accuracy of decisions made by the triage unit affects the ultimate outcome of eds. this study was conducted to evaluate the knowledge of triage among last year medical students in shiraz university of medical sciences. methods: this is a cross-sectional analytical study whose subjects were all t...