The Harvard Medical School-Cambridge Integrated Clerkship (HMS-CIC) is a redesign of the principal clinical year to foster students' learning from close and continuous contact with cohorts of patients in the disciplines of internal medicine, neurology, obstetrics-gynecology, pediatrics, and psychiatry. With year-long mentoring, students follow their patients through major venues of care. Surger...

background: academic failure of medical and medical sciences students is one of the major problems of higher education centers in many countries. this study aims to collect and compare relevant researches in this field in iran. methods: the appropriate keywords were searched in the national and international databases, and the findings were categorized into related and non-related articles acco...

abstract: background and purpose: an open-book exam permits the examinees to consult some selected reference sources or materials while answering the exam questions. this study focused on students' perspectives of open-book examinations in histology/ embryology courses, zahedan university of medical sciences (zums), zahedan, iran. methods: the survey was conducted via a questionnaire after open...

abstract background: ethics was discussed for many years in medical ethics through rules, theories, hypothesis and religious. there are some organs in iran that working on ethics. department of medical science is one of them that has his own instructions on ethics. this study aims to review some of the challengeable issues in medicine. conclusion: department of ethics in iranian academy of medi...

Lei Zheng1,2, Jiangtao Li2 and Yan Luo3 1The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Skip Viragh Center for Pancreatic Cancer, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Center Department of Oncology, and Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 2Department of Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University College of Medicine, Hangzh...

PURPOSE To conduct a meta-analysis of published studies to determine the predictive validity of the MCAT on medical school performance and medical board licensing examinations. METHOD The authors included all peer-reviewed published studies reporting empirical data on the relationship between MCAT scores and medical school performance or medical board licensing exam measures. Moderator variab...

The Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences (IJBMS) is a peer‐reviewed, monthly publication by Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (Mashhad, Iran). It is currently indexed in major national and international scientific databases such as Science Citation Index (ISI), PubMed Central, Scopus, EMBASE, BIOSIS Previews (Biological Abstracts), and Chemical Abstracts (CA). An analysis of manuscrip...

The general features of the Stanford Plan of Medical Education have been described by Stowe (6). The purpose of this article is to discuss in greater detail how we teach the basic medical sciences during the first 3 years of the B-year curriculum. Most of the material will be factual, but where expressions of opinion intrude they represent my own point of view and not necessarily that of my col...