Hossein Fakhraei , Soheila Khalilzadeh 2 , Ghamartaj Khanbabaei , Susan Mahmoudi, Mohammad Reza Masjedi , Mahshid Mehdizadeh , Abbas Momenzadeh, Alireza Nateghian , Payam Tabarsi , Parviz Tabatabaei , Davoud Yadegarinia 9 1 National Immunization Committee of Ministry of health, Tehran, Iran, 2 Clinical TB and Epidemiology Research Center, Masih Daneshvari Hospital, NRITLD, Shahid Beheshti Unive...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine whether gender bias was present in the final third-year medical student obstetrics/gynecology clerkship performance evaluation completed by faculty and resident physicians. METHODS This was a retrospective cohort study of third-year medical students over the course of ten years (2004 - 2014) at a private medical school in the northern US s...

INTRODUCTION The present study aimed to find an appropriate method to inform senior high school students to correctly select their academic field of study and their intentions. METHODS This is a descriptive-analytic and cross-sectional study. A verified questionnaire was given to a total of 2600 students selected by stratified random sampling method (ten different colleges and entrance year f...

Padideh Nasseri, Michael A. Nitsche and Hamed Ekhtiari* 1 Neurocognitive Laboratory, Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2 Translational Neuroscience Program, Iranian Institute for Cognitive Sciences Studies (ICSS), Tehran, Iran 3 Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, ...

Constructing a rigorous identification strategy based on a unique educational reform involving preference-based random assignment of students to different middle schools in Beijing, this paper examines how school and teacher characteristics affect student academic performance. Results show that school effects matter for the test scores on the High School Entrance Exam. We identify the role of t...

INTRODUCTION Medical schools worldwide are faced with the challenge of selecting from among many qualified applicants. One factor that might help admissions committees identify future exceptional medical students is scores on standardized entrance exams. The purpose of this study was to determine the association between scores on the most commonly used standardized medical school entrance exam ...

background: temporomandibular joint is one of the most complicated joints of the body and plays an important role in the head and neck system. one of the factors affecting the temporomandibular joint and lead to temporomandibular disorder is anxiety with all the events causing it. the aim of this study was to determine a relationship between anxiety and temporomandibular disorders. materials an...

BACKGROUND Several concomitant disorders especially thyroid abnormalities have been reported in patients with myasthenia gravis (MG). We aimed to estimate the frequency and pattern of thyroid disorders in Iranian patients with MG. METHODS All consecutive patients with MG referred to neurology clinic of Rasool-e-Akram Hospital during 2006-2007 were enrolled. All patients underwent clinical ass...