Introduction. Setting up “Clinical Skills Labs” has been started in some Iranian medical universities since five years ago. In an educational workshop for Clinical Skills Labs managers in January 2001, many managers stated that if there were standards for these centers it would help them define the necessities of the center. These standards would also make the basis for internal and external ev...

Introduction. In order to improve planning, educational methodology, and evaluation in medical education, well-proportioned, exact and prospective programs are needed. Without doubt, the main changes in medical education programs have resulted from researches performed in this area during the last decades. Revision of medical education in Iran began by the Cultural Revolution Council by order ...

introduction: direct and rapid access to information is one of the main necessities of the users in new technological world. nowadays, information users, particularly medical information in which rapid access is of necessity, do not have enough time to search and access to information. therefore, the present study aimed to determine strategies to access required information as soon as possible....

to explore the trend and composition of post-graduate iranian students who received governmental scholarship during the last two decades.detailed information about the awarded scholarships and also about the number of post graduate students in clinical and basic sciences in domestic universities were collected from the related offices within the ministry of health and medical education and thei...

1 Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology of Ministry of Education/Health, Scientific Research Center, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center & Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 2 Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, Un...

Background There is a global crisis constituting severe shortages of health professionals and mal-distribution of health human resources. There are some important mega trends that affect this challenge: • Populations are aging and becoming more urbanized. • Non-communicable diseases, nutrition-related, and maternity-related causes of death, mental health disorders and chronic diseases are growi...

1024x768 normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa introduction: the main purpose of this project was exactly identification of the applied researches done by different offices of the iranian ministry of health, remedies and medical education in the deputy between september of 1998 to september of 2003, considering their results and the degree of utilization by the users . methods: this pro...