background and purpose: two important clinical education methods are problem-based and student-centered. however, education of “clinical decision-making skills” and “application of clinical knowledge” is important. usually training these cases is done in small groups . in this study, new method of scientific textbooks with four factors mentioned above has been implemented in large education gro...

BACKGROUND The development of a student exchange program was an essential part of the cooperation between the Medical Schools of the University of Goettingen (Germany) and the University of Thrace in Alexandroupolis (Greece). The student exchange program started in 2008 and was performed once a year. The experiences of this program and the feedback of participants are presented. METHODS Altho...

introduction: quality in higher education requires assessment and judgment of goals and strategies, executive policies, operational processes, products and outcomes. the context, input, process, and product (cipp) model is a comprehensive perspective to determine, obtain and prepare. it always tries to provide information in order to make the best decisions related to context, input, process an...

introduction: medical students should be familiar with the end of life ethical issues and its considerations. for teaching end of life care to medical students, literature is a source of excellent narratives of patients with experiences of terminally ill condition in their journey through suffering and one of the most favourite bioethics literature readings has been the death of ivan ilych by t...

during medical training, students obtain enough skills and knowledge. however, medical ethics accomplishes its goals when, together with training medical courses, it guides students behavior towards morality so that ethics-oriented medical practice is internalized. medical ethics is a branch of applied ethics which tries to introduce ethics into physicians’ practice and ethical decisions; thus,...

introduction: student admission indicators typically depend on either student fields or community current career needs. in addition, specific fields have particular needs. the main aim was to determine student admission indicators in medical records field in different degrees in isfahan medical sciences university in iran in 2007. methods: this study was analytical in which data were collected ...

the present study aims at locating the appropriate site for the training of medical students. it is argued that in community oriented medical education the training of medical students should take place where more patients come for consultation. this will result in students having a greater exposure to patients with a variety of medical problems. in order to find out the places where more patie...

introduction: logbooks show whether medical students have been exposed to a particular disease and whether they are able to perform particular practices or not. to evaluate the training status of the medical students in the pediatric ward of shiraz university of medical sciences, the data about the students’ knowledge of different diseases in different parts of the pediatric ward in 2011 was co...

conclusions based on the students perspective, the most important aspect of effective teaching was teaching method. having the ability in the subject clear transmission, being fair and clear communication were the priorities in each aspect. results in the field of knowledge, teaching method, power of communication and individual characteristics the priorities were subject predomination with ave...

quality of clinical education for medical students has always been a concern in academic medicine. this concern has increased in today’s time-squeeze while faculty members have to fulfill their complementary roles as a teacher, researcher, and practitioner. one of the strategies for program evaluation is obtaining trainees’ feedbacks since they are the main customers of educational programs; ho...