background: it is known that basic science and general courses play a vital role in training of medical students. the medical students' comprehensive basic science examination (cbse) scores seem to be a potential tool for predicting their comprehensive pre-internship examination (cpie) scores. purpose: to evaluate the predictive validity of medical students' cbse scores for predicting their cpi...

BACKGROUND Social support is emotional and instrumental assistance from family, friends or neighbors, and has an important but different impact on individuals, mainly depending on contextual factors. OBJECTIVE To determine the status of perceived social support and related personal and family characteristics of medical sciences students in Ahvaz, Iran. METHODS In this cross-sectional study,...

background: transfer and utilization of research evidence in health promotion have caught great attention in recent years. the objective of this study was to assess the factors affecting knowledge , attitude, and practice (kap) of researchers in golestan university of medical sciences (golestan, iran) regarding research knowledge transfer (kt) in 2010. methods and materials: in this cross-secti...

background and purpose: the students studying at the universities of medical sciences deal with numerous stressors during their educational experiences in the healthcare settings, which lead to poor mental health status and low performance. these stressors include the psychological pressures of the environment, the hospital settings, diseases, patients, heavy course load and training, economic ...

Introduction: General medical education starts with basic sciences whichusually continue about 2.5 to 3 years. In this period, the students study basic medical sciences and then start the clinical stage in which they deal with diagnoses, care, and cure of disease. The purpose of this study was to assess the integration of basic sciences period with the clinical period at Shiraz University of Me...

background mental health as an important part of overall health can be affected by various factors. it seems that islamic covering associates with an individual’s overall health and affects mental health and wellbeing. this study was performed to evaluate the relationship between the attitude toward islamic covering and mental health in female students of bushehr university of medical sciences....

a survey of radiology technology student's attitude on patient safety in radiology departments of urmia's educational hospitals     houman k [1] , soleymani goloujeh m [2] , ghasemzadeh n [3] *     received: 8 feb, 2013 accepted: 20 apr, 2013  abstract  background & aims : paying attention to the patient safety is part of ethical and legal responsibilities of each hospital. nowadays, ...