Introduction: The learner-centred approach in medical and healthsciences education makes the study of learning preferences relevant andimportant. This study aimed to investigate the interdisciplinary, interinstitutional, gender and racial differences in the preferred learningstyles among Malaysian medical and health sciences students in threeMalaysian universities, namely SEGi University (SEGi)...

BACKGROUND Researchers have regarded moral distress as a major concern in the health care system. Symptoms associated with moral distress may manifest as frustration, dissatisfaction, and anxiety and may lead to burnout, job leaving, and finally, failure to provide safe and competent care to patients. Proper management of this phenomenon can be fulfilled through study of its causes at different...

BACKGROUND In order to improve the quality of education in universities of medical sciences (UMS), and because of the key role of education development centers (EDCs), an accreditation scheme was developed to evaluate their performance. METHOD A group of experts in the medical education field was selected based on pre-defined criteria by EDC of Ministry of Health and Medical education. The te...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none fa background : one preliminary step to strengthen medical education research would be determining the research priorities. the aim of this study was to determine the research priorities of medical education in iran in 2007-2008. methods : this descriptive study was carried out in two phases. phase one was performed in 3 stages and used delphi technique a...

this paper presents the results of a bibliometric analysis of the medical sciences (ms) domains in iran. totally 9047 articles indexed in isi (thomson reuters database) from 1989 to 2008 in december 2008 have been extracted. histcite tm applications are used to discover the iranian publication status during this period. the publication count has grown at an approximate rate of 40.5% per year. w...