INTRODUCTION Rural clinical schools and regionally based medical schools have a major role in expanding the rural medical workforce. The aim of this cohort study was to compare location of practice of graduates from the University of Tasmania School of Medicine's clinical schools based in the larger cities of Hobart and Launceston (UTAS SoM), with those graduates who spent at least 1 year at th...

Three components have been described in a teaching-learning environment: what is planned by administrators for the students, what is really delivered to the students, and what is actually experienced by the students [1]. What is experienced by students is different from what is planned by administrators in the universities. Three main types of curricula were defined by Hafferty: formal curricul...

to educate the individual towards full emotional and psychological maturity. Professor McKinney has written this excellent textbook as a basis for a course on mental hygiene. These courses have, in fact, been so successful that this book is in its third edition. It is a sad reflection that only a few English universities or, for that matter, medical schools, are aware that they have a role to p...

satisfaction of health teams about the function of family physician in medical universities of northern provinces, iran    motlagh me [1] , nasrollahpour shirvani sd [2] , ashrafian amiri h [3] , kabir mj [4] , shabestani mounfared a [5] , mohoudi s [6] , nahvijoy a [7]     received: 10 feb, 2011 accepted: 2 may, 2011    abstract background & aims: health teams are experts and health workers in...

introduction: traditional methods are generally used for teaching basic science courses at shiraz medical school. such courses are taught during the first and second years of a seven-year medical program. the goal of this study was to analyze teachers and students’ perceptions of basic science teaching in medical education. methods: a descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at the colle...

Background The critical role that the board plays in governance of universities clarifies the necessity of evaluating its performance. This study was aimed to evaluate the performance of the boards of medical universities and provide solutions to enhance its performance.   Methods The first phase of present study was a qualitative research in which data were collected through face-to-face semi-...

background: continuous improvement of quality in higher education is the ultimate goal of any medical school. evaluation of research and educational status makes it possible to judge about the quality of educational achievements in a system. thus we evaluated the educational and research status of microbiology and virology department, faculty of medicine in mashhad university of medical science...