background: the integrated educational system and service provision have involved the managers of iranian universities of medical sciences in different tasks and limited their access to adequate information for decision making. hence, it seems to be vital to adopt plans in order to provide necessary information for decision making. the current study was carried out to define the role of researc...

background and objectives: active presence of hospitals on the internet is becoming a hallmark of hospitals’ commitment to quality healthcare services delivery. for insightful planning towards a strong internet-based information delivery and communication, there is a need for continuous monitoring of hospital website’s status. built on this need, this paper provides, for the first time, a ranki...

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...

After foundation of the Educational Development Center (EDC) in Ministry of Health and Medical Education in 1989, These centers were gradually established in universities of medical sciences in order to promote the quality of education. The necessity of establishment of EDCs was tangibly revealed after integration of previous ministry of health and medical science faculties and establishment o...

scientific educational-research festivals are regularly designed programmes in which one or more educational or research areas are discussed. every festival is usually focused on a specific academic domain, and relevant activities in one specific time period (e.g. one year) are investigated. these festivals provide an appropriate situation for the scientific competition among educational and re...

BACKGROUND Researchers and academic institutions need assessment and rating to measure their performance. The criteria are designed to evaluate quality and adequacy of research and welcome by most universities as an international process to increase monitoring academic achievements. The study aimed to evaluate the increasing trend in global ranking of Iranian medical universities websites empha...

satisfaction of health teams about the function of family physician in medical universities of northern provinces, iran    motlagh me [1] , nasrollahpour shirvani sd [2] , ashrafian amiri h [3] , kabir mj [4] , shabestani mounfared a [5] , mohoudi s [6] , nahvijoy a [7]     received: 10 feb, 2011 accepted: 2 may, 2011    abstract background & aims: health teams are experts and health workers in...

background: empathy is an important factor in the relationship between the therapist and the patient and leaves positive impacts on the health outcomes. objectives: to investigate the level of empathy for patients among students of zanjan university of medical sciences. methods: the present cross-sectional study was carried out in zanjan university of medical sciences. a sample of 420 students ...