background and purpose: considering the importance of comprehensive basic sciences exams in determining the academic level of medical students, this study was done to find the correlation between personal and academic characteristics of medical students entered the medical faculty of kermanshah university in 1379 and the results of the 28 th   comprehensive basic medical sciences exam. methods:...

On September 3, 2003, the Medical Library Association adopted a policy statement on the role of expert searching in health sciences libraries. The policy highlighted the need for more thorough literature searching following the unfortunate death of a healthy research volunteer in a clinical trial that might have been prevented by a more complete literature review [1–3]. In light of this policy,...

since about four years ago, total quality management (tqm) has been informally introduced into our integrated healthcare and medical education system. with the aim of getting feedback/ learning from the experiences of the universities/schools of medical sciences in setting the ground for tqm implementation, an assessment was done. the survey results show that out of 31 universities/ schools of ...

introduction: nowadays, without utilization of information technology, it is impossible to have effective access to required information. inappropriate use of new technology for professional knowledge transmission leads to inadequacy of technology as well as cost wasting. therefore, it is necessary to enhance general understandings about information technology (it) abilities and also end-user n...

background: to achieve development goals in a country, having a research plan is necessary. need assessment in health is the first stage of research priority aiming improves health condition in a population. the objective of this study was to determine a list of research projects according to the health problems priority in ramadan province, iran. methods: to determine research priorities in th...

background: education is the most important task of a university and the mission of faculty members and improving of its quality lead to improve education quality. evaluation of teacher is one of the processes that are carried out to this quality improving. this study was conducted to compares the priorities of evaluation items from view of teachers and students of lorestan university of medica...

background: most managers and employees' manner and actions are influenced by the ethical values and they are rooted in ethics. in the current situation, violating some ethical criteria has currently brought anxiety among the governmental and non- governmental sectors. then, the efficient managers are worried mostly about how to provide appropriate opportunities for the human being to observe t...