INTRODUCTION Empathy refers to a personality character that has a great role in communication with others. Thus, proper evaluation and education of empathy in medical students is important for medical education. Because previous studies had suggested that physician's empathy may reduce with clinical trainings, in this study we decided to measure the empathy score among medical students. METHO...

BACKGROUND Numerous studies have demonstrated that early maladaptive schemas, emotional dysregulation are supposed to be the defining core of borderline personality disorder. Many studies have also found a strong association between the diagnosis of borderline personality and the occurrence of suicide ideation and dissociative symptoms. OBJECTIVES The present study was designed to investigate...

Drug Design and Development Research Center, Tehran University of Medicinal Sciences, Tehran, Iran Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center, Tehran University of Medicinal Sciences, Tehran, Iran Medicinal and Natural Product Chemistry Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran *E-mail: [email protected] Received December 9, 2012 DOI 10.1002/jh...

Most of the scientific staff of Iranian Transplantation wards and many colleagues who have been involving in transplantation from the Middle East, United States and other countries participated in this Congress. Shiraz, a group of people gather together to celebrate this great event. All Congress participants, chairmen of transplant wards, social and official managers of Shiraz and families of ...

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Early childhood caries can cause pain, discomfort and also inability to have a healthy nutrition .Malnutrition can be characterized when there is a weight, height, and body mass index (BMI) deficiency. PURPOSE The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between the severe early childhood caries (based on the dmft index) and BMI in pre-school children in Shiraz....

Received Jan. 2012; Received in revised form June 2012; Accepted June 2012. ABSTRACT Statement of Problem: After 30 years of intermittent reports in the literature, the use of fiber-reinforcement is just now experiencing rapid expansion in dentistry. However, there are some controversy reports in the amounts of flexural strength of fiber reinforced composites to use them as bridges. Purpose: Th...

BACKGROUND According to the World Health Organization viewpoint, social well-being is an important dimension of health along with physical and mental aspects. Evaluation of social well-being is necessary in students, especially in medical sciences students due to future responsibility as health care professionals. The present study attempted to investigate the level of social well-being, five d...