Complementary and AlternativeMedicine (CAM) remains a controversial topic. Despite its widespread use by patients [1], its provision by a large number of physicians and substantial student interest [2], [3], it is rarely taught by medical schools in Europe. By contrast, in the United States (US) 82 medical schools have included CAM-related content in their compulsory curriculum [4] and special ...

BACKGROUND As a developing country, Iran has not had a substantial share in global science production activities; however, this country has recently been the forth country in the world regarding research output publications, and biomedical research has played a crucial role in achieving this honorable position. OBJECTIVES In this paper, we aimed to introduce the strategies employed at Baqiyat...

It is hard to describe the excitement we feel in this first year of the second decade of the Richard M. Lucas Center. We have been privileged to work in a time of great change and progress in medical imaging. We are very proud to see many advances made at the Center being used throughout the world to provide better understanding of biological processes and to improve patient care. Universities ...

Central elements of the Bologna declaration have been implemented in a huge variety of curricula in humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering sciences at German universities. Overall the results have been nothing less than disastrous. Surprisingly, this seems to be the perfect time for German universities to talk about introducing a curriculum that is fully compatible with t...

background: faculty members are the main sources of universities. determination and promotion of their competencies lead to the overall performance promotion of universities. faculty members’ teaching competencies have the greatest role in the improvement of education, research and universities social services quality. therefore, in order to investigate this issue more carefully, this study aim...

Practical education is slowly making its way towards becoming the major mode of especially in medical universities. Not only students many other people are also studying through practical education. these days mainly based on bookish learning. Even when coming to remote rural areas, world-class educational institutes offering lessons students. helps understand relationship between theory and pr...