background: there is a global interest for deploying faculty members’ activities evaluation systems, however implementing a fair and reliable system is a challenging issue. in this study, the authors devised a model for evaluation of faculty members’ activities with regard to their viewpoints and meta-evaluation standards. materials and methods: the reliability of the current faculty members’ a...

background: job satisfaction among nurses has consequences on the quality of nursing care and accompanying organizational commitments. nursing procedure measurement (npm) is one of the essential parts of the performance‑oriented system. this research was performed in order to determining the job satisfaction rate in selected wards of baqiyatallah (a. s.) hospital prior and following the npm. ma...

background: there is a controversy about exact time of bone healing. the aim of this study was evaluation of bone formation and change of density after mandibular third molar extraction.     methods: radiographs were taken from 16 empty tooth sockets immediately after extraction of mandibular third molars and 2, 4 and 6 months later under similar condition. the radiographs were digitized and th...

BACKGROUND Several studies suggest that socioeconomic status affects (SES) affects self-rated health (SRH), both in Greece and internationally. However, prior research mainly uses objective measures of SES, instead of subjective evaluations of individuals' social status. Based on this, this paper aims to examine (a) the impact of the economic dowturn on SRH in Greece and (b) the relationship be...

BACKGROUND Nursing students have to deal with many different clinical and practical aspects of knowledge to become skilled professionals. Student perception may be considered an indicator of teaching quality, since positive perception of students is strictly related to their effective professional learning. The Clinical Learning Environment and Supervision plus Nurse Teacher (CLES+T) scale is c...

Iranian medical universities choose their best researchers in each field annually. The protocols of this process have been modified quite often, but the changes were not fundamental and did not lead to all-inclusive evaluation tools. The recent article in Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology, which proposes a scoring scale for evaluation of scientist's impact called "360-degree researcher...

background: the clinical evaluation, as one of the most important elements in medical education, must measure students’ competencies and abilities. the implementation of any assessment tool is basically dependent on the acceptance of students. this study tried to assess midwifery students’ satisfaction with direct observation of procedural skills (dops) and current clinical evaluation methods. ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The purpose was to investigate the occurrence of self-reported falls in people with stroke at 3, 6, and 12 months and 6 years post stroke and predictors for falls during 6 years. METHODS A prospective study involving 121 people with stroke. Data were obtained through structured interviews and assessments. Generalized estimating equation modeling using proportional odds ...