CONTEXT Increasing the number of minority physicians is a long-standing goal of professional associations and government. OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of an intensive summer educational program for minority college students and recent graduates on the probability of acceptance to medical school. DESIGN Nonconcurrent prospective cohort study based on data from medical school appl...

Background. Educational differences have been assessed as explanations for health behaviour and all-cause and CVD mortality. In Lithuania, in the years 2000–2007, mortality increased from 1406 to 1620 deaths / 100000 / year for men and from 654 to 744 deaths / 100000 / year for women (1). Health behaviour may have a potential role in explaining the relation between risk factors and education. T...

In this study, we investigate the problems and obstacles of implementing the risk-based auditing in Iran. We set four hypotheses and used questionnaire containing 45 questions to collect the required data. The questionnaires were distributed between Iranian certified public accountants who were partners or directors of audit firms and audit organizations member of Iranian certified public accou...

This paper deals with the use of Open Source Software (OSS) in learning environments. Advantages and obstacles of OSS are discussed. Problems and opportunities of introducing OSS into an educational process especially in primary and secondary schools are presented. The survey research, which was carried out in order to study the use of OSS in the educational system of Slovenia is described. The...

iran is a developing country in which the women despite the growth of rate of education in two recent decades have suffered a vast gender gap in education, during the past one hundred years. the aim of this paper was to present a portrait of educational position of women in iran, during the past one hundred years and to analyze the obstacles of females in to achieve to equal educational opportu...

iran is a developing country in which the women despite the growth of rate of education in two recent decades have suffered a vast gender gap in education, during the past one hundred years. the aim of this paper was to present a portrait of educational position of women in iran, during the past one hundred years and to analyze the obstacles of females in to achieve to equal educational opportu...

background and purpose:: although it will be one of the most critical duties and skills of a general practitioner to manage outpatients in his office or at ambulatory care centers, our present medical education is based upon ward-based teaching and ambulatory care, as one important part of medical education, has been overlooked. we evaluate attitudes of faculty members of zahedan university of ...