background: emotional intelligence (ei) helps humans to perceive their own and others’ emotions. it helps to make better interpersonal communication that consequently leads to an increase in everyday performance and professional career. teaching, particularly teaching in the clinical environment, is among the professions that need a high level of ei due to its relevance to human interactions. m...

background: various methods are used to improve the quality and usefulness of basic sciences taught to medical students before beginning of the clinical course and practice in higher grades. one method which is evaluated in the present study is early clinical experience. methods and materials: in this descriptive study, all medical freshmen were participated in a half day workshop for familiari...

introduction: although nursing students spend a large part of their learning period in the clinical environment, clinical learning has not been perceived by its nature yet. to develop an instrument to measure effective factors on clinical learning in nursing students. methods: this is a mixed methods study performed in 2 steps. first, the researchers defined “clinical learning” in nursing stude...

critically ill patient transfer is potentially risky and may be lead to morbidity and mortality. physicians' skill is very important for safe transport. we want to evaluate the effect of clinical course teaching on the promotion of physicians' abilities in the transport of critically ill patients. in an interventional study, 320 interns, male and female, were taught about patient transfer in tw...

clinical education is an essential part of medical trainees’ education process, and curriculum planners agree that it should be based on ethical standards and principles in the medical field. nevertheless, no explained and codified criteria have been developed for ethics in clinical teaching. this study was aimed to develop an ethical guideline for medical students and teachers as the first and...

background: clinical supervision is an important factor in the development of competency in residency program. attending physicians play a key role in supervision of residents. however little is known about how attending physicians and residents perceive the quality of clinical supervision. the aim of this study was to explore the differences between perceived qualities of supervision in these ...

background : clinical work is important part of nursing teaching. nursing education to their responsibilities for teaching and researching are also responsible for integrating the knowledge and practice and offering service to community. complexity of these responsibilities often cause a great deal of psychological stress.   objective : to determine level of stress perceived by nurse educators ...

OBJECTIVE Clinical Governance (CG) program has been raised in Iran in order to improve the quality of clinical care. The purpose of this study is to investigate the awareness of clinical governance program among clinical staff working in selected teaching hospitals in Tehran, Iran. METHODS To investigate the CG awareness, a cross-sectional survey was conducted among 345 clinical staff working...

background it is believed that healthcare staff play an important role in minimizing complications related to urethral catheterization. the purpose of this study was to determine whether or not healthcare staff complied with the standards for urethral catheterization.   methods this study was conducted in imam reza teaching hospital, tabriz, iran, from july to september 2013. a total of 109 cat...

introduction: feedback is very important in education and can help quality in the training process and orient the trainees in clinical contexts. this study aimed to assess the residents’ points of view about feedback in clinical education at shiraz university of medical sciences. methods: the sample of this study included 170 medical residents attending medical workshops in shiraz university of...