OBJECTIVES Family medicine is the second largest medical specialty in the United States; yet, some argue that it is struggling to define itself. This study examined mission, vision, and goal statements of family medicine residency programs as a means of gaining insight into the current definition of the discipline. METHODS Mission statements were obtained from the Internet sites of family med...

This commentary is a reaction of medical educators and health practitioners to the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation's recently released report, Revisiting the Medical School Mission at a Time of Expansion. The report is a fresh assessment of what more medical schools must do to prepare students for 21st century challenges and opportunities to improve the health status of the population including unde...

introduction: many organizations, especially service oriented ones, relative to their goals and mission, have a special view towards quality phenomena and its management. methods: this paper analyzes medical service quality in one case the internal section of shaheed rahnemoon hospital based on the basis of gap analysis model and servqual technique. a questionnaire was designed and applied to m...

AIM OF DATABASE The aim of the Danish quality database for prehospital emergency medical services (QEMS) is to assess, monitor, and improve the quality of prehospital emergency medical service care in the entire prehospital patient pathway. The aim of this review is to describe the design and the implementation of QEMS. STUDY POPULATION The study population consists of all "112 patient contac...

Transfer of patients in medical emergency situations is one of the most important missions of emergency medical service (EMS) staffs. So this study was performed to explore affecting factors in EMS staffs' decision during transporting of patients in medical situations to medical facilities. The participants in this qualitative study consisted of 18 EMS staffs working in prehospital care facilit...