as described in the first part of this article, evidence based medicine (ebm) is a growing part of medical practice which emphasizes on the best evidence. finding this evidence by formulating an answerable question and searching strategies were described in the first part of this review. in this part, appraising the retrieved article (with the main focus on the diagnostic studies) and applying ...

Background: Evidence-based medical education is playing an increasingly important role in the choice of didactic methods and the development of medical curricula and assessments. In Germany, a growing number of educational research projects has accompanied an ongoing change in the medical education process. The aim of this project was to assess medical education research activities at one medic...

introduction: reflection is considered as a critical characteristic in professional competitions. despite propagation of reflection as an important educational issue and existence of several helpful patterns, instructions conducted by teachers to explaining and expanding of it, are very little. studies related to this topic were mainly performed in the field of nursing. therefore, we decided to...

abstract empathy is a cognitive but not emotional trait that consists of understanding (and not sensing), experiences, concerns and  views ofpatients and the capacity to share this understanding. some medical educationists believe that clinical education may have a negative effect on medical students and residents'empathy and steps should be taken for teaching empathy to medical students.our ma...

intervention in early childhood development as one of the social determinants of health, is important for reducing social gap and inequity. in spite of increasingly developing intensive neonatal care wards and decreasing neonatal mortality rate, there is no follow up program in iran. this study was carreid out to design high risk infants follow up care program with the practical aim of creating...

background and aim: academic evaluation is one of the strategies applied for the enhancement of teaching conditions. student-based evaluation is one of the most common kinds of evaluation. the current study is aimed at the identification of important criteria of academic evaluation from the viewpoint of medical school students.   materials and methods: this is a descriptive, cross-sectional stu...

the aim of the present study was to evaluate the efficiency of the computer and internet training course from the viewpoint of dental students of kermanshah university of medical sciences in 2014. in this descriptive survey, the study sample included 39 dental students who entered university in 2011 and 2012. the required data were collected through a reliable and valid questionnaire using cens...

introduction: as there are different e-cme content formats, we need documented evidence for comparing them. in this study, we determined the proper e-content format for cme activities in iran. methods: we devised a questionnaire to gather the opinion of the faculty members who had the experience of e-cme content development about the proper e-cme content format for iranian medical society. base...