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introduction: reflection is considered as a critical characteristic in professional competitions. despite propagation of reflection as an important educational issue and existence of several helpful patterns, instructions conducted by teachers to explaining and expanding of it, are very little. studies related to this topic were mainly performed in the field of nursing. therefore, we decided to...

telemedicine is an indispensable tool in the hands of doctors to accelerate and facilitate the process of data interchange. to publicize and distribute the culture of utilizing this technology and providing the necessary equipment for this purpose and also to commence some useful activities in this field of science in iran, the researchers group have designed and performed a telemedicine intern...

there is a shortage of quantitative measures for assessing the concept of responsibility as a fundamental construct in medical education, ethics and professionalism in existing literature. this study aimed to develop an instrument for measuring responsibility in both undergraduate and graduate medical students during clinical training. instrument content was based on literature review and mainl...

abstract empathy is a cognitive but not emotional trait that consists of understanding (and not sensing), experiences, concerns and  views ofpatients and the capacity to share this understanding. some medical educationists believe that clinical education may have a negative effect on medical students and residents'empathy and steps should be taken for teaching empathy to medical students.our ma...

background: medical professionalism is a set of attitudes and behaviors that cause the physicians to prioritize the advantages of patients to theirs . the primary objective of this study was to assess the attitudes and behaviors of medicalprofessionalism among residentsof guilan university of medical sciences, in the educational year of 2011-2012. methods:  this descriptive study was conducted ...

Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, Alfred Denny Building, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK; Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, 61 Biopolis Drive, Singapore 138673; National Centre for Biological Sciences, GKVK Campus, Bellary Rd, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560065, India; Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, 59 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 636921;...

1Department of Biomedical Science and Environmental Biology, Research Center of Excellence for Environmental Medicine, Cancer Center, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 80708, Taiwan 2Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Louisville, Health Sciences Center, Louisville, KY 40292, USA 3Department of Chemical Engineering and Institute ...

1 Surgical Oncology, 2 Division of BioPhysics and BioImaging, 4 Department of Medical Imaging, 6 Department of Pathology, Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital/University Health Network, 3 Department of Physics, Ryerson University, and 5 Department of Medical Imaging, Mt. Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Departments of Urology, 8 McGill University, Montreal, QC, 9 U...

INTRODUCTION: The World Health Organization (WHO) has constituted a population control programme which includes studies on drugs used in traditional medical practices. Medicinal plant products have a long history of indigenous use in India as well as in other countries 1 . Phytotherapy has a very long tradition, although proper scientific explanation is relatively new. In our country as well as...