introduction: acquisition of intelligible english pronunciation and comprehension of medical texts has been considered as an important need for medical students.  this can be improved by employing different methods and taking into consideration various learning styles of students. this study is an attempt to reveal the effect of cooperative learning on enhancing pronunciation and reading compre...

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Associate Professor in Health Education & Promotion, Department of Public Health, School of Health; Social Development & Health Promotion Research Center, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Iran. [email protected] 2. (Corresponding author) MSN in Medical &Surgic...

BACKGROUND Good quality sleep and adequate amount of sleep are important in order to have better cognitive performance and avoid health problems and psychiatric disorders. AIM The aim of this study was to describe sleep habits and sleep problems in a population of undergraduates, interns and postgraduate students of Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed University), Loni, Maharashtra,...

introduction: up to now, the number of epidemiological studies about eating disorders (ed) in iran is still limited. this study determined the prevalence of eating disorders in female students of shahid sadoughi university of medical sciences. materials & methods: a randomly selected group of 400 female students studied at shahid sadoughi university of medical sciences had been assessed. after ...

CONTEXT This study set out to test the hypotheses that after the implementation of an integrated contextual medical curriculum (ICMC), ICMC students would attain higher levels of knowledge in both the basic and clinical sciences at an earlier stage than conventional medical curriculum (CMC) students, that ICMC students would perform significantly better on knowledge tests at the end of their ed...

conclusions it seems that considering to a high rate of unemployment of university graduates and available restrictions of employment in the public and private organizations, applicants tend to enter the dental field because of the reliable and independent income and high social status which can be considered as the most important influential factors for choosing this field of study. results re...

background: with regard to accelerated progresses in the world of science and technology, as well as changes in the needs of the society, medical education should be a developing process. one of the main factors that can promote education from a static to a dynamic and effective state is evaluation. purpose: the purpose of the present survey is to determine the rate of success of medical studen...

the barriers of e-learning implementation in medical sciences domain and provided the necessary solutions     rahimi b [1] , jebraeily m [2] , mehdi oghli r [3] , rashidi a [4] , masomi r [5]     received: 14 apr , 2013 accepted: 20 jun , 2013   abstract   background & aims : in today's world , e-learning as a knowledge acquisition tool have been developed and changed in a rapidly expanded...