Introduction: Students and university community are social and humanresources of the country. The students’ viewpoints about the quality ofeducational services can be considered as a basis for planning quality promotion and improving organizational performance. This study was conducted to determine the quality gap in educational services d by the students of Health and Nutrition School of Shira...

The economic development of a nation or a region depends to a considerable extent on a highly educated and skilled workforce. This includes an appropriate supply of University graduates. The motivations of students to enter higher education are potentially many and various. However financial factors are known to be of considerable importance, particularly in subjects such as economics and busin...

Background: There is a rapid spurt in non-communicable diseases because of some significant changes in nutrition patterns around the globe. Controlling the main risk factors, namely lack of physical activity and smoking, might decrease more than 50% of the deaths and disabilities caused by these factors. This study aimed to investigate the effective factors of healthy food behavior based on the...

Engineering programs must demonstrate that their graduates have an ability to communicate effectively. Assessment of this outcome occurs at two levels: assessing students' writing abilities and assessing a program's effectiveness in developing their abilities. The paper gives an overview of the two forms of assessment and gives examples of each. The paper then advocates assessment tools that ca...

introduction: integration of public health and medical education has been thought to have an important role in medical students’ training. shiraz university of medical sciences has developed an md/mph dual degree educational program for the talented volunteer students. the aim of this study was to assess the students’ viewpoints about various aspects of shiraz md/mph program. methods: this cros...

extract   modern societies in comparison to the past have more expectations from nurses. nowadays beside the nursing care, nurses have other roles such as use of capabilities in providing knowledge to nursing students. understanding the kind of treatment, nurses would be succeeded in their nursing care. professional nurses are responsible to accommodate their knowledge with the developing nursi...

OBJECTIVES The personality of medical students may have an important impact on both their academic performance and emotional adjustment during medical school. There has been little systematic study of the impact of perfectionism on medical students. The present study sought to compare the perfectionism profile of medical students with that of a general arts student group and to examine the rela...

The purpose of this study is, first, to assess whether high expectation messages (from school, home, and community), and peer norms, were associated with physical dating violence victimization (PDV) among a representative sample of California middle and high school students, and second, to assess whether these associations differed by gender and grade level and/or were mediated by self-efficacy...