In 1995, the World Health Organization 1 formally defined social accountability in the context of medical education as the obligation of medical schools to meet the priority health needs of the communities they serve. This definition highlights the fact that the role physicians play in addressing gaps in health care delivery and health outcomes is central to the profession. This makes sense to ...

Psychology is the science of the mind and its functions, especially in relation to behaviour. It covers human senses, perceptions, emotions, cognition and actions. Arising out of natural philosophy in the late 19 century, it focussed initially on the faculties of the mind and sought to understand how the physiological processes of the senses were translated by the brain into sensations and perc...

The University of Groningen is a university with a global outlook, deeply rooted in Groningen, City of Talent. The university stimulates interdisciplinary research, and places emphasis on its interaction with society and industry. A unique trait of the University of Groningen is the close relationship between its faculties for natural sciences, social sciences and engineering. It is the only un...

Background: Medial educations' models should train physicians with competencies and commitment to meet health needs in the community. This social accountability in medical education is not a new concept but provides equity, quality, relevance and cost-effectiveness in health care system. The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge of faculty members towards the situation and activities in...

BACKGROUND No data exist about how directors of psychiatric mental health (PMH) graduate nurse practitioner (NP) programs have dealt with moving their programs to a lifespan model. It is equally unclear as to how many programs have changed to a doctor of nursing practice (DNP) level of clinical education. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this survey was to gather data on the state of graduate PMH NP...

in the latest decades, in west, human perception was precisely explored, and was questioned in some areas. tabatabaei took a realist position in epistemology. to defend his position, he began to study human knowledge and perception. to avoid skepticism, he gave great importance to intuitive knowledge and based human knowledge on it. intuitive knowledge is the knowledge of the soul of itself, it...

Abstract Language is often approached as a self-contained system, one with its own specifically linguistic elements of organization, generally independent other systems in cognition. But by the analysis here, language shares parts organization cognition and could not function without their participation. For this analysis, heuristically divided into number cognitive faculties, each judged to pe...