The social work discipline and occupation have generally aimed at biological, psychological, well-being in evaluating people. However, ignoring the spiritual dimension of human beings will cause a deficiency achieving full well-being. reason for this is that humans from holistic perspective requires taking into account as well dimensions. problem study to reveal whether oncology patients needs ...

the relationship betweennurses' quality of work life and their clinical competency     habibzadeh h [1] *, ghorbanzadek [2] , khalkhali hr [3] , mohamadpor y [4]     received: 3feb, 2012 accepted: 6may, 2012     abstract   background & aims : high quality of work life (qwl) is known as basic prerequisite for empowering human resources in health system. while nurses have a significant posit...

BACKGROUND A common belief is that language proficiency might have affected the outcome scores of the Oral Structured Performance Evaluation (OSPE) especially at the interactive stations. The objective of this study was to explore this postulation. METHODS The subject of Behavioural Sciences was examined for the first time as a component of undergraduate medical curriculum in 2nd Professional...

On 11 June 1910, an editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) announced to those who had ‘been awaiting with eager interest’ that the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching had released its report on the status of medical education in the USA and Canada. The editorial suggested ‘that the Carnegie Foundation is in a position in which it may exert a powerful...

this descriptive study investigates medical students' attitudes toward psychiatric wards. the study was completed at two psychiatric hospitals of shaheed navab safavi, and shaheed ismaily, as well as the psychiatric ward of shaheed rahnamoon hospital. medical students at two level of internship and stagery participated in the study. they completed questionnaires containing general informat...

introduction:today, shift work is considered as a necessity in many jobs and for some 24-hour services the use of shift-work is growing. however, shift work can lead to physiological and psycho-social problems for shift workers. this study aimed to determine the effects of shift work on the associated health problems, together with the demographic and job characteristics underlying the problems...