background: medical journals are scientific resources where utilization of knowledge is availed and create an environment of competitiveness. to speed up the growth and increase scientific production and in order that the rank of iranian journals be defined regionally and globally, journal standardization is necessary. this study was done to evaluate the country's medi­cal journals from 2004-20...

PURPOSE Medical students are traditionally taught the physical exam as a comprehensive battery of maneuvers, yet they express uncertainty about which maneuvers are "core" and should be performed routinely on patients and which ones should be performed only when clinically indicated. The authors sought to determine whether educator consensus existed on the concept and the specifics of a core phy...

Yan Jiang (姜燕), Yang Guo (郭阳), Xueyan Xi (郗雪艳), Lianxian Cui (崔莲仙), and Wei He (何 维) From the Department of Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and School of Basic Medicine, Peking Union Medical College, National Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology, Beijing, China Address correspondence to: Wei He, MD, Dept. of Immunology, Institute of Ba...

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a study on the academic motivation and its relation with individual state and academic achievement on basic medical students of urmia university of medical sciences     roshan milan s [1] , aghaii monvar i [2] , kheradmand f [3] , saboory e [4] , mikaili p [5] , masudi s [6] , motazakker m [7] *     received: 29july, 2011 accepted: 28august, 2011     abstract   background & aims : the learning ...

1Student, Department of Basic Sciences, Isfahan Payame Noor University, Isfahan, Iran 2Assistant Professor, Biosensor Research Center and Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran 3Professor, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran 4Assistant Professor, Department of Basic Scien...

Many years ago, longer than I may care to admit, I had to take my Board Exam in Pulmonary Medicine. I decided to prepare for the exam by reading a reference textbook cover-to-cover. Because Dr Gerald Baum had been one of my favorite teachers while I was a medical student in Cleveland, I naturally felt inclined towards an earlier edition of Baum’s Textbook of Pulmonary Medicine. It was a most fo...