During the Sixth National Conference and the First International Congress on E-Learning in Medical Sciences (21 October to 24 October 2013) at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, a panel titled "Challenges of e-learning in medical universities in Iran" was held. AS the director of E-learning department in a university leading to the development of e-learning, I had this opportunity to share ...

A joint case-conference was conducted between the Departments of Radiology at Nagoya and Kobe Universities using the Space Collaboration System (SCS), which connects 39 national universities and institutes by communication satellite. In the conference, both sides presented cases using medical images such as those from CT, MRI, and DSA, and the cases were discussed between participants at the tw...

This report describes the steps in the development of an accreditation system for medical universities in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The national accreditation project, supported by the government, was performed from 2001 to 2005. The project was carried out in 3 main phases, each phase including a number of tasks. After a review of the international literature on accreditation and through n...

This study proposes the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) ranking for resource allocation between Iran's Medical Universities based on a five years observation data (2004-2008). We compared the DEA ranking results with the traditional ranking approach applied by the Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran. Based on the DEA score the amount of budget is proposed for each university for th...

The 2014 Varsity Medical Ethics debate convened upon the motion: “This house believes that genetic information should not be commoditised”. This annual debate between students from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, now in its sixth year, provided the starting point for arguments on the subject. The present article brings together and extends many of the arguments put forward during the ...

Student evaluation of teaching is ubiquitous to teaching in colleges and universities around the world. Since the implementation of student evaluations in the 1970s in the US, considerable research has been devoted to their appropriate use as a means of judging the effectiveness of teaching. The present article aims to (1) examine the evidence for the reliability, validity, and utility of stude...

With increased development of medical technology (MT), new challenges emerge related to education and training of pharmacists and other healthcare specialists. Currently, only a few universities in the EU promote MT education and research. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the current status, views on, and need for the education on MT for the pharmacy students and practicing ph...