background and purpose: training in basic clinical and procedural skills is considered an important part of the core medical undergraduate curriculum. there are some reasons to assume that junior doctors are not adequately trained in these skills. due to the lack of enough information on skills competence of our students, this study was designed in 3 medical schools in southern iran to evaluate...

background:child health improvement is one of the most important indexes in health programs among all countries. one of the eight millennium development goals for 2015 is reduction of child mortality. based on who recommendation integrated management of childhood illness (imci) is one of the most effective strategies to reduce under five mortality rates. in this study, we tried to compare knowl...

clinical skill centers were designed in 1960, offers innovative, more effective clinical health care and treatment curriculum. clinical skill center (csc) can provide a special facility for clinical and communication skills practice in a setting outside hospital wards in order to train students with enough confidence of confronting real patients. learning clinical skills in these centers are no...

background and purpose: clinical competence has four essential components: knowledge , physical exam , problem solving and communication skill .the communication skill isn’t an optional extra in medical training but it is a core clinical skill. this study is performed in order to determine whether communication skill training for internal medicine and infectious disease residents improves their...

background & aim: with the implementation of incorrectly airway suctioning, many complications and risks can be followed. therefore, health care providers can expedite recovery of patients by increasing in quality of suction. this study was conducted to evaluate the effect of clinical audit process on the level of endotracheal tube suctioning skill in nurses and anesthesia technicians working i...

there are two strategies that increasing skill of nursing students: heuristic method and concept map. these methods correlate theoretical and operational lessons effectively. different researches and experiments showed that students, who have educated with these methods, have more ability to attain skills than the other students. this subject is not a novel idea. even tyler has applied this the...

This paper discusses the relevance of recent research on the economics of human development to the work of the Human Development and Capability Association. The recent economics of human development brings insights about the dynamics of skill accumulation to an otherwise static literature on capabilities. Skills embodied in agents empower people. Enhanced skills enhance opportunities and hence ...