Akiko Nakano-Kobayashi, Masakazu Yamazaki, Takamitsu Unoki, Tsunaki Hongu, Chie Murata, Ryo Taguchi, Toshiaki Katada, Michael A Frohman, Takeaki Yokozeki and Yasunori Kanaho* Department of Physiological Chemistry, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences and Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, Department of Physiological Chemistry, Graduate School ...

Medical education is constantly undergoing revision and renewal in attempts to ensure appropriate depth and breadth of knowledge of basic and clinical sciences as well as provide an environment that encourages life-long learning and integrative reasoning skills. An overview of the most recent comprehensive (130/ 141 accredited medical schools in the United States and Canada) report on medical e...

Introduction: General medical education starts with basic sciences whichusually continue about 2.5 to 3 years. In this period, the students study basic medical sciences and then start the clinical stage in which they deal with diagnoses, care, and cure of disease. The purpose of this study was to assess the integration of basic sciences period with the clinical period at Shiraz University of Me...

purpose: the purpose of this research is to identify and validate indicators used to evaluate research productivity of iran universities based on view of research assistants and managers of universities across the country.methodology: in other to achieve this aim documentary method and survey method were applied to identification and validation of these indicators respectively.. sample of this ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The testicular exam was not explicitly taught at our medical schools before 2002. In this article, we explore different phases of curriculum development, implementation, and evaluation of a method for teaching the testicular exam. METHODS Medical students participated in surveys and focus groups, and male patients participated in focus groups. From the results of the...

introduction: in order to cope with the crisis of serials cost and problems associated with the shortage of budget in libraries and facilitating the access to scientific journals, the principle of open access to scientific publications and usually in the form of electronic journals has evolved during the last 15 years. this research aimed to clarifying the amount of citations of isi web of scie...

Millis RM, Dyson S, Cannon D. Association of classroom participation and examination performance in a first-year medical school course. Adv Physiol Educ 33: 000–000, 2009; doi:10.1152/advan.00028.2009.—The advent of internet-based delivery of basic medical science lectures may unintentionally lead to decreased classroom attendance and participation, thereby creating a distance learning paradigm...

*Cancer Control and Population Sciences Program, University of Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Juan, PR; †Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR; ‡Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR; §Puerto Rico Central...