Introduction: Academic Olympiad for medical sciences students focuses on areas that require reflection, reasoning and problem solving and that are generally neglected in the official education system and evaluation of medical students. Previously, it was administered in three areas of scientific thinking in basic sciences, clinical reasoning and health system management. In order to cover, phil...

  Background and Objectives: Assessment of educational status is important and essential in order to survey the quality of educational systems. This study was performed to determine the educational status of Rafsanjan's dental school graduates who had entered the university in the years 1997 to 2002.   Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out by census sampling and subj...

Introduction: it is important to identify factors, which lead to academic achievement and impede academic failure. Some psychological elements including positive and negative perfectionism, anxiety and self-esteem seem to be related to academic achievement. This study aimed to measure relationship between psychological profile and academic achievement of medical and dental students at Isfahan U...

One of the necessary bases to improve the quality of education system especially in universities is continuous evaluation of education process of students in different levels of education system continually. Basic sciences medical period is a background of study achievement and precise understanding of the next levels of medical courses. The medical students by the knowledge acquired in basic s...

  Introduction: Different studies regarding  criteria of admission for medical students indicated that prediction of success of students at the university is the most important issue. The aim of this study was to investigate the relation between High School Grade Point Averages (HsGPAs) and university admission test ( Konkoor) ranking with students’ success indices such as their Basic Sciences ...

Introduction: Predictive validity is one of important characteristics of a test; it means that what extent a test predicts scores of criterion test. This type of validity can be obtained through determining correlation between scores of two tests. This study was performed to determine correlation between the scores obtained by medical students in various educational courses, basic sciences and ...

Introduction: Medical education in Iran has four stages: Basic Medical Science (BMS), Pathophysiology, Clinical Clerkship, and Internship. The relevance of basic medical course contents to professional practice needs is considered to be a problem in such traditional curriculum. Also, diminished retention of the content is another problem. These two problems are explored in this study. Methods: ...

  Background and objective: Student evaluation is a special concern in medical education, and validity is one of the most important evaluation characteristics. There are different kinds of validity. Criterion validity is a degree of correlation between an evaluation and another reference evaluation.   Medical education for the general physician consists of four discrete cou...

Introduction: Qualitative promotion in medical education is one of the prerequisites for training skillful physicians in order to improve the level of community health. Evaluation as an effective tool can be widely used to review educational systems. This study aimed to assess a ten years educational trend of dental students in Babol University of Medical Sciences and the probable related facto...