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...

background: in order to check the practicality of classification of universities of medical sciences (umss) based on their infrastructures, and scientific contributions, this study explored the most appropriate indicators to measure the size and productivity of umss. methods: in the first phase, we approached a group of experts who had a deep experience in the management of umss and in the mini...

objective(s): citation tracking is an important method to analyze the scientific impact of journal articles and can be done through scopus (sc), google scholar (gs), or isi web of knowledge (wos). in the current study, we analyzed the citations to 2011-2012 articles of iranian journal of basic medical sciences (ijbms) in these three resources.   material and methods: the relevant data from sc, ...

background: english for specific purposes (esp) courses should empower students to satisfy their language needs. however, at many iranian universities, these courses are mostly taught based on the grammar translation method focusing on teaching grammatical rules and reading comprehension. the present study aims at proposing an innovative approach for teaching english to medical students that ca...

maleki mr1 (phd), nasrollahpour shirvani sd1 * (phd candidate), motlagh me2 (md), tofighi s3 (phd), kabir mj4 (phd candidate), jafari n4 (md)     1 department of health services management, faculty of management and medical sciences,   iran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran   2 department of pediatrics, jendishapour university of medical sciences, ahvaz, iran   3 department of health...

introduction: academic libraries are famous to be the hearts of universities, with the ever increasing importance of the evaluation of information technologies in academic centers, and libraries need to evaluate their status to accord with these conditions. the aim of this research is to provide an evaluation relating to the conditions of tabriz university of medical science libraries, and coll...

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...