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...

introduction: critical thinking as a process of purposeful self-regulatory judgment leads to problem solving and correct decision making in individuals. in the modern world, health care faces rapid change and burgeoning amount of knowledge. possessing critical thinking is essential for individuals in health care centers, specially when they are forced to solve clinical problems. the aim of this...

participation in clinical trials can be useful for the health of a person, in who it is conducted, but it does not have to be - it can even be harmful. therefore, primary motive to accept such risk is humanity and human wish to contribute to the progress of medicine; this is expressed by personal consent. the consent, however, can be an expression of personal humanity, and for this, it is not l...

introduction: stress is an important factor in the educational process. teaching and learning are stressful processes. this stress can affect one’s ability and change his/her performance. the purpose of this study was to investigate stressors of clinical education from the perspective of medical students in yazd university of medical sciences. methods: this descriptive-analytic study was conduc...

background: drug utilization evaluation (due) is an effective process in order to identifying variability in drug use and subsequent application of effective interventions for improving  patient outcomes. in this study, appropriate uses of drugs were evaluated by pharmacy service. methods : a prospective, interventional study was designed for determining frequency and type of clinical pharmacis...