background and purpose: according to developments related to the relative autonomy of universities and acquired extensive powers by the board of trustees of universities of medical sciences and healthcare services in a twenty-year perspective of country and in the context of the fourth and fifth socio-economic cultural development of country, necessity of developing financial and transactional ...

Introduction. Self assessment is provided by Excellence models covers all the factors affecting qualitative and quantitative improvement of organizational performance. The aim of this study was to evaluate performance of universities of medical sciences based on EFQM. Methods. This interventional study was done in 2010-2011.13 universities among 41 medical sciences university were selected usin...

introduction: the supervision of academic theses at the universities of medical sciences is one of the most important issues with several challenges. the aim of the present study is to discover the nature of problems and challenges of thesis supervision in iranian universities of medical sciences. methods: the study was conducted with a qualitative method using conventional content analysis app...

background: governance is one of the main functions of health research system (hrs) that consist of four essential elements such as setting up evaluation system. the goal of this study was to introduce a new web based research evaluation model in iran. methods: based on main elements of governance, research indicators have been clarified and with cooperation of technical team, appropriate softw...

BACKGROUND Local ethical committees in medical sciences in Iran were established in 1999 in order to assess and evaluate the observance of ethical standards throughout the universities and research centers. The purpose of this study is to analyze the situation of local ethical committees in order to develop research ethics guideline. METHODS For this cross-sectional study which has been condu...

introduction: standard codes and their descriptions are important tools for research, design, implementation and evaluation of the injury control program and its sub-categories. methods: in this research the medical records of 735 patients diagnosed with injuries, burns or poisonings from teaching-hospitals of the iran, tehran and shahid beheshti medical universities (n=22) were selected to be ...

iran universities of medical sciences have experienced a period of expansion in past decades. now previous concerns are alleviated, and the former quantity-based policy has given a way to a more quality-seeking attitude. in this study, we developed a planning model for expansion and stagnation of higher education in iranian universities of medical sciences based on workforce requirements of the...