since about four years ago, total quality management (tqm) has been informally introduced into our integrated healthcare and medical education system. with the aim of getting feedback/ learning from the experiences of the universities/schools of medical sciences in setting the ground for tqm implementation, an assessment was done. the survey results show that out of 31 universities/ schools of ...

a Cardiology Department, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran b The School of Iranian Traditional Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran c Department of Traditional Medicine, School of Medicine, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran d The School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran e The School of Iranian Traditional Medicine, Shahid Beheshti...

J Rehabil Med 43 © 2011 The Authors. doi: 10.2340/16501977-0785 Journal Compilation © 2011 Foundation of Rehabilitation Information. ISSN 1650-1977 While physical modalities and therapeutic exercise have been used traditionally in Persian medicine, some rehabilitation issues have also been discussed, in particular, in The Canon of Medicine by Avicenna (980–1037). For example, the recommendation...

introduction: shahid motahari annual educational festival aims to improve the quality of medical education in the islamic republic of iran, and has held since 2008. the present study was performed to determine the satisfaction level of iranian medical universities’ faculty members about holding shahid motahari annual educational festival during the past six years, from 2008 to 2014. methods: th...

1. Iranian Research Center for HIV/AIDS, Iranian Institute for Reduction of High-Risk Behaviors, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2. Clinical Research Development Center, Amir-Almomenin Hospital, Tehran Medical Sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran 3. Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehr...

ABOUT PIVOTAL MATTERS IN IRANIAN HEALTH SYSTEM ARE MADE Leila Doshmangir, Arash Rashidian. Department of Health Services Management, Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Management, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Tabriz Health Services Management Research Centre, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Department...

BACKGROUND Creativity and innovation are key elements for organization improvement, particularly in nursing, and for finding alternatives for solving nurses' occupational problems. Nurses' creativity is affected by motivation. Although, there are many possible sources of motivation, the Iranian nurses' creativity is seldom clarified, and the most important factors motivating nurses to be creati...

Background and Objectives: Active presence of hospitals on the Internet is becoming a hallmark of hospitals’ commitment to quality healthcare services delivery. For insightful planning towards a strong Internet-based information delivery and communication, there is a need for continuous monitoring of hospital website’s status. Built on this need, this paper provides, for the first time, a ranki...

ISI Web of Science (WOS) is the world's most prestigious database that is used in order to evaluate and rank the countries, researchers, institutions, and universities. Therefore, determining the status of Iranian articles in this database in the field of poisonous and venomous animals is important. Quantitative and qualitative assessments of scientific outputs are the main goals of this study....