background and purpose: basic medical sciences, not only in its traditional form as basic sciences, but also in its modern forms like biotechnology and genetics has indicated a highly applicable potential in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of illnesses. therefore it is essential to improve basic sciences education quality, and because clinical students are in direct contact with medica...

to present a multiple-instructor, active-learning strategy in the undergraduate medical curriculum. this educational research is a descriptive one. shared teaching sessions, were designed for undergraduate medical students in six organ-system based courses. sessions that involved in-class discussions of integrated clinical cases were designed implemented and moderated by at least 3 faculties (c...

background : the aim of this study was to identify factors affecting self-medication and its pattern among the students of tabriz university of medical sciences, tabriz, iran. methods: this descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 385 students of tabriz university of medical sciences in 2012. the data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire. the validity of the questionnai...

competency- based mastery learning: a planned clinical experience for nursing students     baghaei r [1] , mohammadpour y [2] *, habibzade h [3] , rasouli d [4] , khalilzadeh h [5] , jafarizadeh h [6]    received: 2 may, 2011 accepted: 6 july, 2011   abstract  background & aims: clinical education is one of the most important and crucial parts of nursing education. successful clinical education...

background hepatitis a is often asymptomatic in children, however it can become a serious disease in adults. for countries that do not have a universal vaccination strategy targeted vaccination for high risk groups is recommended. health workers could be at a higher risk of infection with hepatitis a virus (hav) compared to the general population. the aim of this study is to investigate the ser...

background and purpose: there is much evidence that the prevalence of academic misbehaviors is increasing in universities. this study examined the motivation and attitudes of medical students of shahid beheshti university of medical sciences on cheating and its frequency. methods: the study is a survey of medical students’ of shahid beheshti university of medical sciences attitudes on cheating ...

study of status and knowledge of female student about cutaneous leishmaniasis in abuzid abad, kashan, in 2007     dehghani r [1] , moosavi ga [2] , abbasi f [3] , novrozi s [4] ,farahani m [5] , hooshyar h [6] *    received: 19 feb, 2011 accepted: 20 june, 2011   abstract   background & aims: cutaneous leishmaniasis is a protozoan parasitic disease that is prevalent in tropical and subtropical ...

the survey of ethical among nursing students in urmia university of medical science     mohammadpour y [1] *, kazemi n [2] , abbasi m [3] , shams e [4]     received: 28 apr , 2013 accepted: 2 jul , 2013    abstract  background & aims : e thics in nursing care is very important and professional competence. in nursing, ethics means that the nursing care is based on the principles of bioethics. ho...

abstract background and aims: medical students are exposed to various infectious diseases during their clinical training period, including measles and rubella. in iran, to control the outbreaks of measles and rubella a mass vaccination campaign was conducted on 2003. the present investigation evaluates immunity to measles and rubella in a group of babol medical students and determines the preva...