Objectives: The purpose of this study is to explore the relation between basic science knowledge and the ability to understand and make use of basic science in explaining a clinical scenario in the final year of medical school. Methods: A sample of senior medical students was reassessed using the same test they had taken 3 years earlier. This was followed by an in-depth interview on one of the ...

Geopersia is published biannually by the College of Science, University of Tehran, Iran. The College of Science published Journal of Science, which covered all fields of basic science, from 1968 to 2010. It was then decided that the College’s journals should be more specialized, and hence publication of Geopersia was launched. Articles printed in Geopersia will be available online too. Aims an...

Background: The increased concern for accountability and quality improvement is inducing universities throughout the world to evaluate and control performance. Hence, this study was conducted to assess basic science department of Sabzevar medical school to improve the quality of the department. Methods: This study is a descriptive cross sectional study. We asked faculty members, managers, inte...

introduction: early clinical exposure has been conceptualized to orient medical students towards actual clinical scenario and help them correlate their theoretical knowledge with real life situations in early years of mbbs courses. in the present study we explored the outcome of early clinical exposure in the context of basic science topics (physiology) in fresh mbbs entrants and compared their...

background: this study conducted to assess publications of diabetes treatments to understand research gaps and priorities to guide a management map for future strategy of diabetes research in iran. methods: all studies published from the beginning until 2015 in national and international journals by iranian authors conducted in the field of diabetes. this comprehensive search strategy without a...