in order to achieve educational purposes and having better spiritual power in an education institute, the authorities must try to keep and support their human recourses. this study is conducted to determine the affective motivation factors on retension of faculty members at hormozgan university of medical sciences (hums). for this purpose, the view points of 71 faculty member’s (hums) through a...

the effect of anxiety management skills on anxiety in adolescent     jalaliaria k [1] , ashrafrezai n [2] , asayesh h [3] *, bathaei sa [4] , shariati a5, badeleh mt6     received: 15 mar , 2013 accepted: 5 may , 2013    abstract  background & aims : adolescence is a critical period in life with lots of change which can play an important role in the country's future. at this period there i...

background: medical education has dramatically evolved in the past decades, and scholarly behaviors have gained popularity. in this study, scholarship-of-teaching activities from mashhad university of medical sciences (mums) were evaluated for the first time in this country. methods: data related to all applicants who were nominated for promotion to associate and full professor positions were s...

background: faculty members are the main sources of universities. determination and promotion of their competencies lead to the overall performance promotion of universities. faculty members’ teaching competencies have the greatest role in the improvement of education, research and universities social services quality. therefore, in order to investigate this issue more carefully, this study aim...

the effect of oxygen therapy on postoperative nausea and vomiting     aliakbarzadeh arani z [1] *,gilasi hr [2] , khari arani m [3] ,shouri bidgoli ar [4] , asayesh h [5]     received: 14 apr, 2013 accepted: 15 jun, 2013    abstract  background & aims : postoperative nausea and vomiting (ponv) are the most common complications after surgery which could cause complications and problems for many ...

BACKGROUND One of the features of Mission Based Management is measuring the activities of faculty members and departments and their contributions to the school's mission. As it is important to assess the school's readiness for such a system, in this study we assessed the view points of Tehran Medical School's department chairs about faculty members' activities. METHODS We used focus group tec...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to analyze bibliometric data from ISI, National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funding data, and faculty size information for Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) member schools during 1997 to 2007 to assess research productivity and impact. METHODS This study gathered and synthesized 10 metrics for almost all AAMC medical schools(n=123): (1) t...

INTRODUCTION The teaching of evidence-based medicine (EBM) has now been incorporated as an integral part of medical curriculum at the Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital but there is little research into the effectiveness of the course. The purpose of this report is to evaluate the EBM skills of medical students and competency of the faculty member. MATERIALS AND METHODS The EBM course ...

INTRODUCTION Many students, while performing clinical skills such as medical interviewing/ communication, physical examination, and procedural tasks, have never been observed by faculty members or residents. This study aimed to explore the relationships between final-year medical students' self-reported confidence and the frequency of direct observation by faculty member or resident while condu...

Raheleh Janani, Abdollah Jannatdoost, Alehe Seyedrasuli, Leila Valizadeh, Parvin Sarbakhsh. Member of educational board of nursing and midwifery faculty of Tabriz University of medical sciences, Iran; Department of medical surgical, nursing and midwifery faculty, Tabriz University of medical sciences, Iran; MD neonatal nursing of Alzahra hospital and head of research of Alzahra research committ...