BACKGROUND Although the number of older patients is increasing in almost all medical specialties, the interest of medical students in geriatrics as a career is still low. Because quality of medical education and educators strongly influences student career decisions, it is important to develop curricula that motivate students to become self-directed, lifelong learners in the field of geriatric ...

Robert El-Kareh, MD, MPH Christopher Roy, MD Gregor Brodsky, BA Molly Perencevich, MD Eric G. Poon, MD, MPH Division of Biomedical Informatics, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California. Division of Hospital Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California. Division of General Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. Hospitalist Service, ...

introduction: reflection is considered as a critical characteristic in professional competitions. despite propagation of reflection as an important educational issue and existence of several helpful patterns, instructions conducted by teachers to explaining and expanding of it, are very little. studies related to this topic were mainly performed in the field of nursing. therefore, we decided to...

abstract empathy is a cognitive but not emotional trait that consists of understanding (and not sensing), experiences, concerns and  views ofpatients and the capacity to share this understanding. some medical educationists believe that clinical education may have a negative effect on medical students and residents'empathy and steps should be taken for teaching empathy to medical students.our ma...

background and purpose: in education of medical science courses, there has been a growing orientation towards replacing traditional teaching in with e-learning education. since the modern system of education is based on self-directed learning, e-learning requires special powers to deal with new-emerging challenges and professionally encounter the learning environment. the purpose of the present...

background and aim: academic evaluation is one of the strategies applied for the enhancement of teaching conditions. student-based evaluation is one of the most common kinds of evaluation. the current study is aimed at the identification of important criteria of academic evaluation from the viewpoint of medical school students.   materials and methods: this is a descriptive, cross-sectional stu...

introduction: as there are different e-cme content formats, we need documented evidence for comparing them. in this study, we determined the proper e-content format for cme activities in iran. methods: we devised a questionnaire to gather the opinion of the faculty members who had the experience of e-cme content development about the proper e-cme content format for iranian medical society. base...

A number of reports in the past decade have concluded that the medical education system must be reformed. These reports often call for the incorporation of new technologies into the educational process. One technology that has found its way into the medical educational environment is the personal computer. This essay critically examines the introduction of the personal computer into medical edu...

introduction: for some time now the field of medical education has been criticized by many of its stakeholders. countless debates have been presented in the literature regarding the quality of medical education research, adequacy of methodological rigor, and other concerns. methods: at present, the views expressed have largely come from physicians and individuals with less familiarity with educ...

1. Traditional and Complementary Medicine Research Center, Student Research Committee, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran 2. Dept. of Traditional Persian Medicine, School of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran 3. Traditional and Complementary Medicine Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran 4. Adjunct Research Fellow,...