background: the increased concern for accountability and quality improvement is inducing universities throughout the world to evaluate and control performance. hence, this study was conducted to assess basic science department of sabzevar medical school to improve the quality of the department. methods: this study is a descriptive cross sectional study. we asked faculty members, managers, inter...

background: considering the importance of entering doctoral students to universities with hard competition, in order to detect the predictive power of entrance exam grade in educational achievement in early years, we attempted to investigate the efficacy of entrance exam with basic scientific test. methods: the existing data from national organization for education testing and education center ...

Overall, this outstanding text should soon become recognized as the definitive reference for the diagnosis and management of ocular trauma. The tall, narrow shape of Basic Facts for Basic Science suggests that perhaps the author intended that it be put into the pocket of one's lab coat; perhaps not, but this book is certainly appropriate for the shelf of any laboratory and for the office of any...

Some other possible conclusions come easily to mind. Perhaps, if we’re really concerned about students’ learning evidence-based medicine, then we should teach it more or better. On the other hand I am one of many who have joined the anti-EBM movement (Norman 1999). In my view, the fundamental irony remains that, even though it made the BMJ’s ‘‘Top 15 Medical Innovations of all Time’’ list in 20...

background: it is known that basic science and general courses play a vital role in training of medical students. the medical students' comprehensive basic science examination (cbse) scores seem to be a potential tool for predicting their comprehensive pre-internship examination (cpie) scores. purpose: to evaluate the predictive validity of medical students' cbse scores for predicting their cpi...

background: score worksheets have been extracted for phd candidates in epidemiology, microbiology and parasitology for the academic year of 1386-87. the main objective in this study is the impact and importance of different subjects on the discrimination results of admission. methods: extracted scores from worksheets are analyzed by minitab15 statistical toolbox. the regression values of differ...

Aims: Glucose evoked changes in profibrotic transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGFs1), increase connexin hemichannel mediated ATP release kidney proximal tubule cells. With linked to inflammation, we evaluated the efficacy of blocker Peptide 5 negating induced inflammatory cytokine secretion cells. Methods: Primary human tubular epithelial cells (hPTECs), and immortalised (HK2) were treated w...