background: it is known that basic science and general courses play a vital role in training of medical students. the medical students' comprehensive basic science examination (cbse) scores seem to be a potential tool for predicting their comprehensive pre-internship examination (cpie) scores. purpose: to evaluate the predictive validity of medical students' cbse scores for predicting their cpi...

during 1979-77 a large number of kurdish populations in northern part of iraq temporarily immigrated to iran and settled in dezful area of khuzestan province, south-west iran. faecal examination of 3,263 samples for intestinal metazoan parasites and 1,154 urine samples for detecting schistosoma haematobium, infection were performed in different sex and age groups. the percentages of prevalent i...

background and aims: anxiety is a common reaction when people encounter new problems where they do not know what expect. the nurses are responsible for assessing the patient and helping them with the procedure of endoscopy. this study investigates differences in anxiety level of patients who receive nursing process of orlando's theory prior to endoscopy examination compared to a control gr...

abstract: background and purpose: an open-book exam permits the examinees to consult some selected reference sources or materials while answering the exam questions. this study focused on students' perspectives of open-book examinations in histology/ embryology courses, zahedan university of medical sciences (zums), zahedan, iran. methods: the survey was conducted via a questionnaire after open...

background: the effect of heat stress on physiologicalparameters has been well documented. however, there arereports of a genetic based heat tolerance in some sheep breeds.objectives: the aim of the present study was to monitor thephysiological responses of an iranian fat-tailed breed againstheat stress and an acute stress insult. methods:atotal numberof 15 fall-born ram lambs were selected and...

introduction: breast neoplasia is the most common cancer among women in both developed and developing countries. over 1.15 million women in the world detecting with breast neoplasia each year and the mortality rate is 502,000 cases from this cancer. the purpose of this study was to describe how iranian women perform breast self-examination. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study 4...

background: radiation dose knowledge through xray examinations and their distribution in iran provides useful guidance on patient dose reduction. the results of the entrance skin dose (esds) of five common radiographies in all radiology centers in yazd province were reported in our previous study (2003). in the present study we have evaluated the collective effective dose of conventional x-ray ...

purpose sudden death of a competitive athlete is a tragedy that is usually caused by a previously unsuspected cardiovascular disease. the aim of this study was to clarify the role of noninvasive testing in pre-participation cardiovascular evaluation of elderly wrestlers. methods we included 63 iranian elderly wrestlers who participated in tehran international elderly wrestlers’ preparation camp...

Truly global radiology would exist if patients could visit any European physician without their CDs or films. It would be possible for patients to go to a hospital or a clinic in any European country and have their examinations done in a different country, analyzed and eventually compared with the examination done at that hospital. This paper analyzes two national projects that should be docume...