background and purpose: considering the importance of comprehensive basic sciences exams in determining the academic level of medical students, this study was done to find the correlation between personal and academic characteristics of medical students entered the medical faculty of kermanshah university in 1379 and the results of the 28 th   comprehensive basic medical sciences exam. methods:...

in research on the history of medicine, less attention is paid to the subject of historical geography . considering the importance of this subject in the history of science, this paper discusses one of the most important science centers in the world. this outstanding medical research center was located in gorganch city, chorasmia area, in the eastern part of the islamic. chorasmia medical schoo...

history has repeatedly acknowledged the contributions of iranian scientist to man kind. in recent years the courageous integration of medical education with health unique in its characteristic and dimension had reshaped the face of iran's medical as any other change there has been short comings but the potentials created is promising. the article gives a brief history of science and specially m...

m alizade [1] , md mr mohammadi fallah [2] , md m shokoohi [3] , md ah sharafi [4] , mdm maghsudi [5] , md  received: 23 dec, 2007 accepted: 12 april, 2008 abstract  background &aims; : impacted distal ureteral stone have always been controversial on the choice of treatment. this study aims to evaluate the effect of tamsulosin (non selective alpha 1-blocker) in medical expulsion therapy of dist...

This paper argues that two characteristics of social life impinge importantly upon medical attempts to maintain high ethical standards. The first is the tension between the role of ethics in protecting the patient and maintaining the solidarity of the profession. The second derives from the observation that the foundations of contemporary medical ethics were laid at a time of one-to-one doctor-...

The university medicine in Germany is indispensable. There is no doubt about that. In its statement on the “Perspective of University Medicine” [1] published on October 21, 2016, the Science Council (“Wissenschaftsrat”) rightly stated that university medicine is the interface between the science and health system "with its singular task of research, teaching and healthcare ( p. 17). Patients sh...

Medical Informatics is the science and art of processing medical information. In this age of "Information Explosion" choosing the useful one is rather difficult, and there lies the scope of electronic database management. However, still many outstanding personnel related to the healthcare sector take pride in being "computer illiterate". The onus of the best use lies on the end-user health care...

this paper presents the results of a bibliometric analysis of the medical sciences (ms) domains in iran. totally 9047 articles indexed in isi (thomson reuters database) from 1989 to 2008 in december 2008 have been extracted. histcite tm applications are used to discover the iranian publication status during this period. the publication count has grown at an approximate rate of 40.5% per year. w...

background: medical education and training can directly contribute to the development of psychological distress in medical students. this can lead to catastrophic consequences such as impaired academic performance, impaired competency, medical errors and attrition from medical school. this study aimed to assess the prevalence of psychological morbidity among iranian medical students. methods: t...