After foundation of the Educational Development Center (EDC) in Ministry of Health and Medical Education in 1989, These centers were gradually established in universities of medical sciences in order to promote the quality of education. The necessity of establishment of EDCs was tangibly revealed after integration of previous ministry of health and medical science faculties and establishment o...

BACKGROUND Self-citation is one of the main challenges in the evaluation of researchers' scientific output. This study aimed at comparing the institutional self-citation among the universities located in Northern Iran. METHODS This study was conducted as a scientometric study. Research population included all scientific productions of 16 Northern Iran Universities with at least 100 indexed do...

academic failure is an important issue in medical students which, if not controlled, will cause a drop in the academic level of physicians and paramedics in the coming years. therefore, identification of factors affecting academic failure can influence the future planning of universities and reduce those factors and help effectiveness and flourishing of these students. this study aimed to inves...

Introduction. Universities of Medical Sciences & Health Services were established with the aim of training and development of efficient health manpower for improving the community health. The people of the community have common health problems and needs, so universities of medical sciences and health services can affect diagnosing the problems, providing the health needs and developing health c...

ranking is one of the key measures for evaluating universities.  progress of research at universities is often measured by the rate of its publications.  it is also common knowledge in the field of research that journal publications owe their success to their impact factor.  however, one of the contributing factors that affect a journal's impact factor is the accessibility and availability of i...

introduction: the quality of the information provided in the public sector is of a high importance due to the specific purpose of reporting. presenting reliable, complete, and timeliness information of the activities in the governmental sector by using desirable public sector accounting system provides a better opportunity for people's monitoring on the offering of governmental services, transp...

The SEA-ORCHID project (South East Asia Optimising Reproductive Child Health in Developing countries) initiated a survey among undergraduate medical students at five South-East Asia universities to ascertain their understanding of evidence-based practice, information seeking practices, access to Information Technology and evidencebased databases as well as their understanding of clinical practi...

introduction. setting up “clinical skills labs” has been started in some iranian medical universities since five years ago. in an educational workshop for clinical skills labs managers in january 2001, many managers stated that if there were standards for these centers it would help them define the necessities of the center. these standards would also make the basis for internal and external ev...