introduction: the drive for health care and medical sciences to become evidence-based has been accelerated during recent years and therefore quick access to relevant information without the use of information and communication technology seems impossible. the aim of this study was to evaluate medical students' knowledge of computers and information science in urmia university. methods: this sur...

introduction: the purpose of this study was to improve communication skills and knowledge of bioethics of last year medical students doing clerkship and to evaluate the effectiveness of using workshops for this purpose from students’ point of view, in order to continue such programs in future. methods: after ethical approval for the study a two-day workshop on teaching effective communication s...

background: academic failure of medical and medical sciences students is one of the major problems of higher education centers in many countries. this study aims to collect and compare relevant researches in this field in iran. methods: the appropriate keywords were searched in the national and international databases, and the findings were categorized into related and non-related articles acco...

Industrial medicine and hygiene have made considerable strides in this country during the past two decades. A great many facts dealing with the signs, symptoms, toxicology, and preventive aspects of this branch of the medical sciences have been accumulated, but, unfortunately, the application of the data and the distribution of industrial medical care have not proceeded with parallel speed. In ...

Heralding the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth, Randolph Nesse affirms, in the December 2008 issue of The Lancet, his vision that the basic science curricula of medical school include evolutionary biology. Nesse suggests that evolutionary biology would unite the basic science principles of the preclinical years and serve as an explanatory tool in the doctor-patient encounter.This article vis...

Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) oxygen generation mini-plant is widely used in all various hospitals for its fast, convenient, and cost-effective features. However, considering the landscape of global markets, PSA medical design basis varies from location to location. Therefore, it forces manufacturer build more flexibly enable compatibility different extreme ambient conditions (temperature, hu...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: disasters whether natural or man-made can inflict widespread damage in every society. disaster effects on hospitals were discussed by many specialties in many fields. the aim of this article was discussion disasters effect on medical records department, which responsible for safeguard keeping of patient medic...

introduction: since users have a critical role in the success of a hospital information system, and also considering software companies as information system service providers-not only product sellers, this study was conducted to evaluate the hospital information system (his) software based on user requirements in iran. methods: through a descriptive study, 5 vendors, which had the best selling...

abstract background: ethics was discussed for many years in medical ethics through rules, theories, hypothesis and religious. there are some organs in iran that working on ethics. department of medical science is one of them that has his own instructions on ethics. this study aims to review some of the challengeable issues in medicine. conclusion: department of ethics in iranian academy of medi...

1 Department of Biomedical Science and Environmental Biology, Cancer Center, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 80708, Taiwan 2Department of Chemical Engineering & Institute of Biotechnology and Chemical Engineering, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung 84001, Taiwan 3Division of Biochemistry and Plant Physiology, SK University of Agricultural Sciences and Te...