background and objectives: respecting privacy means respecting individuals, their dignity and independence. it is mandatory to observe privacy in health-care systems. therefore, this study was carried out with the aim of expressing nursing students’ experience of privacy in pediatrics ward. methods: this qualitative study was done inductively using content analysis method. the participants incl...

background:students are the main customers of the universities. thus, their perceptions and expectations of the educational quality is of great importance in planning for quality improvement. this study is aimed on evaluating the quality of clinical education in hospitals affiliated with kerman university of medical sciences. methods: this is a descriptive-analytical study. three hundred and th...

background:   in the last decade, researchers have found that, each person’s success in education, either in school or in university, is not only related with his/her intelligence quotient, but today emotional intelligence is considered as another forecaster of people prosperities in their lives .the aim of this study is to determine the relationship between emotional intelligence and clinical ...

Introduction  Self-efficacy in clinical performance had an important role in applying competencies; also competencies and self-efficacy in clinical performance influenced to quality care of nursing and midwifery students. So the present study aimed to define the relationship between clinical competencies and clinical self-efficacy among nursing and midwifery students. Materials and Methods  Thi...

Background: Due to unpredictability of events in psychiatry environment and replacement of routine clinical experiences with some assignments such as therapeutic communication with patients, clinical training in such environments has been associated with many problems which require continuous review and evaluation.  The purpose of the present research was to determine the effect of applying por...

context:  the ability to think critically is an essential element in nursing education and ‎more specifically in nurses’ clinical decision making (cdm).‎ aims:  critical thinking (ct) and cdm ability as well as their relationship were ‎examined among nursing students of kerman university.‎ settings and design: study was designed in four towns: kerman, bam, jiroft, and zarand, ‎settled in kerman...

background: the purpose of the descriptive study was to investigate students' attitude, who attend their fifth and sixth years of study, about endodontics seminars using problem based learning method at mashhad dental school. methods: it is a descriptive study conducted on fifth and sixth grade students of mashhad dental school in 2012-2013 academic years. data were gathered via questionna...

background: programming and planning an appropriate structure for internship and purposeful assessments of students play a considerable role in developing their practical and theoretical knowledge level. one of the suitable alternatives for the traditional method is assessing internship through objective structured clinical examination (osce). therefore the aim of the present study is to perfor...

color -blindness is the inability to perceive differences between some color that other people can distinguish. using a literature search , the results indicate the prevalence of color vision deficiency in the medical profession and its on medical skills. medical laboratory technicians and technologists employees should also screen for color blindness. this research aimed to study color blindne...

The number of underrepresented minorities (URMs; black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander) among US medical school faculty is markedly low when compared with their respective percent representation of the US population. Women URMs are doubly underrepresented, particularly as the academic rank advances from the ins...