Aim: Doctors who want to receive expertise training have take the Medical Specialty Exam (TUS). That’s why they study for TUS in last period of their undergraduate medical education. However, content is different from education (UÇEP) which determined by national core program. This situation causes physicians preparing ignore basic knowledge. aims determine how much TUS, main purpose education,...

introduction: teachers’ evaluation is one of the most important factors in decision making in university. it is done to determine the situation of  teaching activities. since the university rank in comprehensive exam of basic sciences(cebs) is indicated as educational success, this survey was carried out to determine the relationship between university ranks of  cebs in different courses and th...

The purpose of this study guide is to assist you in preparing for taking the 20-question “Integration” section of your comprehensive exam. This guide covers all 60 questions in the “Integration” exam pool. So, you would be wise to answer each item and study your answers well. In fact, we highly recommend that you even memorize much of the information you find. Our hope is that by using this stu...

The advent of internet-based delivery of basic medical science lectures may unintentionally lead to decreased classroom attendance and participation, thereby creating a distance learning paradigm. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that classroom attendance/participation may be positively correlated with performance on a written examination for first-year medical school instruction. The st...

PURPOSE The National Board of Medical Examiners® (NBME) Comprehensive Basic Science Exam (CBSE) is a subject exam offered to US medical schools, where it has been used for external validation of student preparedness for the United States Medical Licensing Examination® (USMLE) Step 1 in new schools and schools undergoing curricular reform. Information regarding the actual use of the NBME CBSE is...

Assessing mastery of bioethics in a graduate program requires careful attention not simply to the content knowledge and skill development of students but also to the principles of sound assessment processes. In this article, we describe the rationale, development process, and features of the comprehensive exam we created as a culminating experience of a master's program in bioethics. The exam b...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Very few texts in the literature approach the neurologic exam of patients with neuropathic pain (NP). The objective of this study was to evaluate the profile of patients with NP through the neurological exam. METHODS This is an observational study that followed-up patients with NP for one year. The neurologic exam was evaluated at the outpatient clinic and through pr...

Ecological processes play a critical role in shaping the world in which we live and guiding our interactions with it. As humans we are consistently attempting to predict, understand and sometimes control the behaviour of the natural world. Whether we are trying to forecast the upcoming seasonal rains, recreating a forest fire to understand why it burned in a particular manner, or making land ma...