background: medical education should be considered as a dynamic process. if necessary, the program should be changed. considering rapid advantages in the field of virology, it seems to be necessary to review and change the virology course of medical students. therefore we decided to analyze the view of iranian medical students of the quantity and quality of virology course. methods: medical stu...

introduction: the undergraduate curriculum of shiraz medical school underwent a major reform during the recent years. it comprised of integrated education, supplemented with an early clinical experience program. this study was carried out to find out how early experience in clinical experience affects medical students’ perception and identify strengths and limitations of the available methods a...

background: assessment of clinical competencies is one of the complicated and hard tasks in medical education. nowadays, assessment of clinical performance is significantly patient centered, and student centered. traditional methods consisted of faculties’ observations, oral examinations, and multiple-choice tests. increased faculties’ workload, discontent with traditional methods of clinical s...

INTRODUCTION The selection of a discipline for future specialization may be an important factor for the medical students' future career, and it is influenced by multiple factors. The interest of students in the early stages can be improved in subjects related to public health or of academic importance, as per need. METHODS A questionnaire-based study was conducted among 265 first- and second-...

conclusions nursing students support in the clinical education requires a nurturing care; a care that leads to the sense of worthiness and respectability in students and contributes to the improvement of their clinical abilities. results in the current study, the main theme, nurturance, was emerged with seven subthemes of humanistic behavior with the student, respectful communication with stude...

BACKGROUND Clinical reasoning ability is an important factor in a physician's competence and thus should be taught and tested in medical schools. Medical schools generally use objective structured clinical examinations (OSCE) to measure the clinical competency of medical students. However, it is unknown whether OSCE can also evaluate clinical reasoning ability. In this study, the authors invest...

background and purpose: the medical educational environment is increasingly becoming the focus of research globally. it is commonly understood that educational environments are an important factor for efficient learning. the present study was done with the aim to evaluation of clinical phase students' perception of learning environment of our teaching hospital and comparing it with the previous...