Introduction: Doctors’ shortage has remained a concernworldwide. The developed countries started aids to recruitinternational medical graduates (IMG) to cope with the defectsthat the health care system suffers from; however, this solution maynot work in developing countries that have a limited resource andpoor budget to spend on the health care system. This study aimsto present an alternative w...

There are an increasing amount and variety of disasters occurring throughout the United States. Many of these disasters require physicians to provide medical assistance. This article provides a brief introduction to disaster preparedness and its recent history and physicians' obligations, role, education, preparation, and response. It is the intent of this article to increase awareness and prov...

the present study was designed to investigate a quantitative method for evaluation of patients satisfaction from their consultant physicians.seventy eight physicians were selected randomly by systematic sampling method from a total of 421 consultant physicians practicing in Shiraz.ten patients were selected randomly for each consultant physician that results in a sample of 780 patients.a questi...

Funding for graduate medical education (GME) and undergraduate medical education (UME) in the United States is being debated and challenged at the national and state levels as policy makers and educators question whether the multibillion dollar investment in medical education is succeeding in meeting the nation's health care needs. To address these concerns, the authors propose a novel all-paye...

health care system is organized to achieve more efficiency as well as developing public equity and providing access to the first, second and third levels of services. family physician is in the first line of the health care system; in other words, family physician is the health system’s goalkeeper. according to classification of health services, gaining access to specialized services becomes po...

For a century, we have been trying to integrate basic science into medical education, beginning with the Flexner report. Flexner, a high school teacher, an outsider to the practice of medicine and medical education, was commissioned to re-evaluate the medical education system [1]. He was chosen for his expertise as an educator, having critiqued the American schooling system and having explored ...

Drug testing is now ubiquitous in sport, and it often falls to the team physician to perform a variety of roles including interpreting test results, designing drug-testing programs, acting as medical review officer, and providing therapeutic use exemptions, education, and counseling. Proper understanding of current testing methods for drugs such as anabolic-androgenic steroids, erythropoietin, ...

The College of Health Professions was established in 1970. Programs of study are off e red in dental hygiene, health services management and community development, medical technology, nursing, physical therapy, physician assistant, and public health. The primary emphasis of the college’s health p rofessions programs is the preparation of entrylevel health professionals. A d d i t i o n a l l y,...