background: educational development center (edc) establishment is one of the procedures to improve quality of medical education. as positive knowledge and attitude of lecturers and students are essential factors to gain access to goals of these centers, the aim of this project was to assess knowledge and satisfaction of faculty members and students about edc activities, babol-2010. methods: thi...

fulfilling the related responsibilities has ethical aspects that must be addressed carefully. each role requires extensive training, which usually takes place in university institutions. ethics is applied in at least three academic areas, including: a) in education of students’ personal growth, b) in patient care, and c) in university comm:union: in population-based health care. given the impor...

background: faculty development programs have received considerable investment of resources from medical institutions, though the effect and output of them has been infrequently studied. this study was design to measure the effect of the mashhad university of medical sciences’ faculty development workshops. methods: three faculty development workshops on educational research were conducted to i...

Unlike in the past, standards for quantity and quality of work expected from medical school faculty are continuously rising, causing changes stress various areas. This highlights need career development among professional, personal, organizational, societal reasons. The role has become more diverse, leading to an increase types levels competencies required. Medical schools must support their me...

The ancient Indian story of the blind men and the elephant, descending to us through the Greeks and to the Japanese through Buddhism and China, reminds us that a single individual can gain only a partial perception of a complex phenomenon in which he is interested, and that his conclusions depend on his own experiences and interactions with that phenomenon, rather than on the totality of the ph...

background: teachers' self-efficacy and development may be conceptualized as their beliefs in their own ability to plan, organize and carry out activities that are required to attain educational goals. in this study, we examined the effect of different medical education training courses (six-day, one- month short- term and six-month long- term courses) on perceived self-efficacy and development...

background: medical education need to efficient teaching programs and the importance of lesson plans is irrefutable in promoting of education. this study aimed to use the assure model in studying the knowledge and attitudes of university faculty members' about the lesson plan at 2013 years. methods: the study was a descriptive analytical study and the study population was consisted of universit...