The fields of quality improvement and patient safety (QI/PS) continue to grow with greater attention and awareness, increased mandates and incentives, and more research. Academic medical centers and their academic departments have a long-standing tradition for innovation and scholarship within a multifaceted mission to provide patient care, educate the next generation, and conduct research. Aca...

BACKGROUND Academic emergency physicians are driven to become master clinicians while honing their skills in mission areas such as education, research and administration. Many faculty members try to pursue the triple threat of education, service and research; however, excellence in all three areas is difficult to achieve. The first step to excelling in the education domain is to clearly define ...

the history of hospital construction is primarily divided into pre-islamic and isalmic periods; the latter also witnessed the emergence of european and american hospitals after the arrival of western medicine in iran. kerman morsalin hospital, belonging to church mission society hospitals, is an example of such hospitals built under the supervision of british doctors in iran. this hospital, lis...

general yermolov's mission in iran (1817) was in response to the iranian foreign minister mirza abolhassan-khan ilchi’s mission to the russian empire. the goal of yermolov's mission was to determine and resolve border disputes between the two countries based on the treaty of golestan (1813). this paper, which is based on iranian and russian sources, reviews the context, goals and achi...

le missionnaire est un voyageur particulier qui voyage pour un motif sublime: celui de la propagande du christianisme. les missionnaires ne sont pas très nombreux, mais, ils ont écrit bien de livres par lesquels nous pouvons tracer leur démarche à travers l’asie et la perse en particulier. cet article est consacré à l’étude et l’analyse de cette mission tout d’abord en asie et plus particulière...