fulfilling the related responsibilities has ethical aspects that must be addressed carefully. each role requires extensive training, which usually takes place in university institutions. ethics is applied in at least three academic areas, including: a) in education of students’ personal growth, b) in patient care, and c) in university comm:union: in population-based health care. given the impor...

background: faculty development programs have received considerable investment of resources from medical institutions, though the effect and output of them has been infrequently studied. this study was design to measure the effect of the mashhad university of medical sciences’ faculty development workshops. methods: three faculty development workshops on educational research were conducted to i...

roy adaptation model in hemodialysis patients: a mixed method research hassani p[1]*, otaghi m[2] received: 17 may, 2012 accepted: 13aug, 2012 abstractbackground & aims: ram is used in ersd patients. nurses play important role in their adaptation. the goal of the study is to explain the adaptive and ineffective responses of hemodialysis patients based on ram in qualitative part, and to compare ...

Unlike in the past, standards for quantity and quality of work expected from medical school faculty are continuously rising, causing changes stress various areas. This highlights need career development among professional, personal, organizational, societal reasons. The role has become more diverse, leading to an increase types levels competencies required. Medical schools must support their me...

BACKGROUND Research productivity is considered an important factor in academic advancement in sports medicine. No study to date has evaluated academic productivity and correlates of academic rank for sports medicine fellowship faculty. PURPOSE To describe the academic productivity of American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) fellowship program faculty and to determine the assoc...

S uccess, like beauty, is difficult to define, but one knows it when one sees it. A reasonable definition is the achievement of satisfaction and happiness in one’s profession, which then defers the definition to that of happiness and satisfaction. These will be dependent on the extent and directions of one’s passion, the pursuit of which promotes satisfying productivity. Physicians who choose t...

The ancient Indian story of the blind men and the elephant, descending to us through the Greeks and to the Japanese through Buddhism and China, reminds us that a single individual can gain only a partial perception of a complex phenomenon in which he is interested, and that his conclusions depend on his own experiences and interactions with that phenomenon, rather than on the totality of the ph...

introduction. measuring is the foundation of evaluation. the main way for evaluation of education progression is testing the exams and every test must have identity, validity, reliability and be easy to perform. more precision to preparing the exams can improve its validity. there are different ways for measuring validity and reliability in testing. do the faculty members know about these metho...