introduction: the goal of integration of digital libraries (dl) is to utilize various autonomous dls in concert to provide knowledge from such island-dls. integrated digital libraries (idls) appeared after the emergence of dls in 1990s, invention of integrated information systems from 2000 and consolidation of them during the recent decade. the ministry of health and medical education (mhme) of...

introduction: physicians have to visit, diagnose and refer patients with genetic disorders, so they need to be familiar with the basics and indications of genetic tests. in other words, they should have effective theoretical and practical knowledge about medical genetics before they do their job. medical genetics courses at medical universities of iran are generally presented as a theoretical s...

introduction: second national medical sciences olympiad was done in shiraz in august 2010 with aim of indentifying scientifically talented individuals, motivating students and orienting extracurricular activities. this olympiad was done in 3 areas, basic sciences, clinical sciences and management. in clinical sciences, we used tosce (team objective structured clinical examination). in this arti...

This study sets the objective to involve undergraduate students in the evaluation of radiologic sciences and medical imaging technology programmes in Sudanese universities. Based on the analysis of survey results in which the participants (BSc students undertaking radiologic sciences and medical imaging technology programmes at university level) are asked to answer both closed and open-ended qu...

BACKGROUND Based on Iran by 2025 defined vision, we must to receive the first grade of science position in south western Asian region. Thus we need to have a comprehensive evaluation program. METHODS A comprehensive WHO Health Research System Analysis (HRSA)- based evaluation system was developed to evaluate the HRS in Iran. This article has explored the results of the five-year evaluation (2...

background and purpose: social accountability, a concept which is in the focal attention more than ever, is to provide service in the field of medical sciences. we aimed to identify the educational challenges to train accountable graduates in the medical education system to meet social needs. methods: this study was conducted by qualitative content analysis using in-depth semi-structured interv...

graduate medical education is one of the stage of the continuum of medical education in iran. at present, near 5500 residents are being trained in 24 specialties and 21 subspecialties in 26 universities of medical sciences. based on a special act of national parliament in 1973, the iranian council for graduate medical education is responsible for supervision on the quality of graduate medical e...