there is a shortage of quantitative measures for assessing the concept of responsibility as a fundamental construct in medical education, ethics and professionalism in existing literature. this study aimed to develop an instrument for measuring responsibility in both undergraduate and graduate medical students during clinical training. instrument content was based on literature review and mainl...

introduction: the purpose of this study was to improve communication skills and knowledge of bioethics of last year medical students doing clerkship and to evaluate the effectiveness of using workshops for this purpose from students’ point of view, in order to continue such programs in future. methods: after ethical approval for the study a two-day workshop on teaching effective communication s...

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to improve communication skills and knowledge of bioethics of last year medical students doing clerkship and to evaluate the effectiveness of using workshops for this purpose from students’ point of view, in order to continue such programs in future. Methods: After Ethical approval for the study a two-day workshop on teaching effective communication s...

Zahra Ebrahimi, Zakieh Piri, Afsaneh mehdikhani, RouhAllah Khara. Undergraduate student, health information technology, Tabriz University of medical science, Tabriz, Iran; Associate Professor, health information management, Tabriz University of medical science, Tabriz, Iran; Undergraduate student, health information technology, Tabriz University of medical science, Tabriz, Iran; PHD student, he...

1 Doctoral degree, USP/SP, Staff of the Odontomed Hospital. 2 Doctoral degree, USP/SP, Full professor at the PUC/SP. 3 Medical undergraduate student in the Itajuba Medical School, MG. 4 Medical undergraduate student in the Juiz de Fora Medical School, MG. 5 Medical undergraduate student in the Souza Marques Medical School, Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Paper submitted to the BJORL-SGP (Publishing Managem...

the aim of this study was to show the interaction between the society, applicants and medical schools in terms of medical student selection. in this study, the trends to implement social factors in the selection process were highlighted. these social factors were explored through functionalism and conflict theories, each focusing on different categories of social factors. while functionalist th...

BACKGROUND Research training is essential in a modern undergraduate medical curriculum. Our evaluation aimed to (a) gauge students' awareness of research activities, (b) compare students' perceptions of their transferable and research-specific skills competencies, (c) determine students' motivation for research and (d) obtain students' personal views on doing research. METHODS Undergraduate m...

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