Medical doctors constitute a profession which embraces trust from and accountability to society. This responsibility extends to all medical educational institutions. Social accountability of medical education means a willingness and ability to adjust to the needs of patients and health care systems both nationally and globally. But it also implies a responsibility to contribute to the developme...

today, through out the world, medical education has two critical needs: need for structural reform and innovative plans and then need for social accountability in terms of educational program quality and its effectiveness. educational assessment and accreditation could be considered as operational (executive) strategy to meet both needs. of outmost important as the first toward educational asse...

In fact, the Geneva Conference on Person-centered Medicine took place on May 29 and 30, 2008 under the auspices and on the premises of the University Hospitals of Geneva, organized by the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Institutional Program on Psychiatry for the Person (IPPP), in collaboration with the World Medical Association (WMA), the World Organization of Family Doctors (Wonca), the W...

background     method.     results.     conclusion     edical education , e valuation , a ccreditation , s tandardization . regarding the importance of quality improvement in medical education, it is expected that even if this process would not lead to international accreditation acquisition, it will result in improvement and essential changes in basic medical education. keyword: m   having pri...

Although non-stationarity in the level of a time series is always tested (and there variety tests for this purpose), variance sometimes neglected applied research. In work, consequences neglecting economic series, and conceptual difference between conditional are discussed. An ad hoc method testing correcting suggested. It shown that presence leads to misspecified univariate ARIMA models it, nu...