introduction: the drive for health care and medical sciences to become evidence-based has been accelerated during recent years and therefore quick access to relevant information without the use of information and communication technology seems impossible. the aim of this study was to evaluate medical students' knowledge of computers and information science in urmia university. methods: this sur...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: use of the internet to retrieve health information is increasingly common . the present study aimed to determine the ratio of attitude, skill and performance of faculty members in using computer and internet in research and educational affairs at mazandaran university of medical sciences . methods: in this cr...

background: english for specific purposes (esp) courses should empower students to satisfy their language needs. however, at many iranian universities, these courses are mostly taught based on the grammar translation method focusing on teaching grammatical rules and reading comprehension. the present study aims at proposing an innovative approach for teaching english to medical students that ca...

introduction: the current research seeks to evaluate the framework of the mentioned endeavors through the survey of the quality of the web pages of iran's medical universities and the existence of their organizational metalinks. methods: in this descriptive study, 40 web pages of the iran's medical universities were studied. the existence of the web pages, the type of the library soft wares, th...

introduction: one of the common methods for scientific activity assessment is scientometrics. it has been made possible with citation databases like web of science (wos) and scopus. in this paper, we studied the scientific production rate of hamadan university of medical sciences during 11 years via scientometrics methods. methods: in a descriptive, cross-sectional study, data was collected by ...

introduction: science production is one of the main dimensions of sustainable development in any country. thus, universities as the major centers for science production play a key role in development. the present study aimed to assess the trend of science production in iran’s type i universities of medical sciences from 2007 to 2012. method: in this study, the universities’ scores of empowering...

introduction: communication skills are one of the most important skills for health care managers and play an important role in their personal life and future occupation. the present study aimed to evaluate the students’ communication skills as well as its relationship with the students’ demographic characteristics. method: this descriptive-analytical study was performed on 153 university studen...

purpose: the aim of present study was the comparative evaluation of content and support quality of iranian academic libraries websites’ and provide recommendations to improve them.methodology: this study is an applied research and methodology was comparative survey. data gathering tools were three checklists extracted from relevant studies which compare with 5 foreign library websites, and thei...

background: in order to check the practicality of classification of universities of medical sciences (umss) based on their infrastructures, and scientific contributions, this study explored the most appropriate indicators to measure the size and productivity of umss. methods: in the first phase, we approached a group of experts who had a deep experience in the management of umss and in the mini...

introduction: medical libraries and information centers, as service organizations, need standard tools and methods to be able to measure and increase quality of their services, so as to be able to meet the needs of their users in support of the improvement of the performance of their parent institutions. methods: one of the available standard tools of quality measurement is the european foundat...