background and aims: quality of visit services is a decisive aspect of patient-physician communication that its inadequacy can negatively influence the diagnosis efficiency. the aim of this study was to survey visit quality at provincial level during plan of health sector evolution in tabriz. methods: a sample of 540 patients who referred to the outpatient clinics (sheikh al raeis of tabriz pro...

background: medical liability systems play an important role on doctors’ everyday practices and their relationship with patients. they can be established in two ways, fault-based and non-fault. basing medical liability upon the element of fault links it to various issues of medical ethics.  in this paper, we have studied the possible ways each system, could affect the applicability of values an...

introduction: the responsibility of the medical training team towards a patient referring to an academic medical center has not been fully clarified. in this article we have looked at current practice in medical university of isfahan and evaluated the attitude of the medical team towards patients’consent to be involved in medical students’education. methods: in this cross-sectional study, condu...

Patient-physician interactions are increasingly influenced by the extraordinary diversification of populations and rapid expansion of medical knowledge that characterize our modern era. By contrast, the patient-physician interaction models currently used to teach medical trainees have little capacity to address these twin challenges. We developed a new model of patient-physician interaction to ...

Background Recently, artificial intelligence-powered devices have been put forward as potentially powerful tools for the improvement of mental healthcare. An important question is how these impact physician-patient interaction. Aims Aifred an clinical decision support system (CDSS) treatment major depression. Here, we explore use a simulation centre environment in evaluating usability Aifred, p...

PURPOSE This study was to explore the relationship between clinical performance examination (CPX) achievement and epistemological beliefs to investigate the potentials of epistemological beliefs in ill-structured medical problem solving tasks. METHODS We administered the epistemological beliefs questionnaire (EBQ) to fourth-year medical students and correlated the results with their CPX score...