Background: Addis Ababa University (AA) is one of the thirteen medical schools (in twelve countries) in Africa that are recipients of the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI). MEPI-Ethiopia is a consortia project that involved four Ethiopian medical schools (College of Health Sciences (CHS) at Addis Ababa University, Defence Medical College, Schools of Medicine at Hawassa and Haramay...

equity in access to and utilization of health services is a common goal of policy-makers in most countries. the fair allocation of human resources is one of the dimensions of equity, which was evaluated in this study.we evaluated the equity of human resources' distribution among iran's medical science universities between 2005 and 2009 by inequality measures including lorenze curve, gini coeffi...

introduction. universities of medical sciences & health services were established with the aim of training and development of efficient health manpower for improving the community health. the people of the community have common health problems and needs, so universities of medical sciences and health services can affect diagnosing the problems, providing the health needs and developing health c...

Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is being taught in many medical universities around the world, however many studies have reported obstacles for effective EBM teaching. In this study we aim to evaluate the obstacles of teaching EBM in Iranian Medical Universities which have made slow progress in EBM. A qualitative descriptive study with content analysis was designed to thoroughly and deeply discus...

background as a developing country, iran has not had a substantial share in global science production activities; however, this country has recently been the forth country in the world regarding research output publications, and biomedical research has played a crucial role in achieving this honorable position. objectives in this paper, we aimed to introduce the strategies employed at baqiyatal...

BACKGROUND BACKGROUND Equity in access to and utilization of health services is a common goal of policy-makers in most countries. The fair allocation of human resources is one of the dimensions of equity, which was evaluated in this study. METHODS We evaluated the equity of human resources' distribution among Iran's medical science universities between 2005 and 2009 by inequality measures ...

BACKGROUND Global health electives offer medical trainees the opportunity to broaden their clinical horizons. Canadian universities have been encouraged by regulatory bodies to offer institutional support to medical students going abroad; however, the extent to which such support is available to residents has not been extensively studied. METHODS We conducted a survey study of Canadian univer...