INTRODUCTION Concerns about reproducibility and impact of research urge improvement initiatives. Current university ranking systems evaluate and compare universities on measures of academic and research performance. Although often useful for marketing purposes, the value of ranking systems when examining quality and outcomes is unclear. The purpose of this study was to evaluate usefulness of ra...

background:patient concerns represent opportunities for improvement in orthopaedic care. thisstudy’s objectiveis to identify the nature and prevalence of unsolicited patient complaints regarding orthopaedic care ata tertiary referral hospital. the primary null hypothesis that there are no demographic factors associatedwith complaint types was tested. secondarily we determined if the overall com...

Evaluating the software quality requires a series of factors that will form the quality model. Most of the software quality models that already exist only provide the quality factor of software on generic domains. These conditions resulted in a software quality model on generic domains used to evaluate the academic websites quality. The software quality model on generic domains only provides a ...

Introduction. Medical education quality improvement is a main problem of medical education system in Iran. One of the strategies for medical education quality improvement is internal evaluation. General instruction objectives are determining problems of clinical departments and introducing strategies in different levels of management for solving the problems and following up suggestions. Metho...

introduction. medical education quality improvement is a main problem of medical education system in iran. one of the strategies for medical education quality improvement is internal evaluation. general instruction objectives are determining problems of clinical departments and introducing strategies in different levels of management for solving the problems and following up suggestions. method...

Purpose – To provide a view of quality in accounting education from the perspective of a critical stakeholder group – academic accountants. The identification of this view adds to the growing discussions around quality, and how it is assured in higher education. Design/methodology/approach – Applying a framework for defining quality in higher education to an accounting context, a postal survey ...

shahid motahari educational festival has annually been held to improve medical education quality in iran. the present study aims to determine the product of holding six courses of the festival from the viewpoints of medical sciences university faculty’s members. this cross-sectional study was conducted among 473 academic members of medical universities in iran. participants filled out a self-ad...