The "revolution" initiated by Flexner established a firm foundation for the physical and biological sciences in medical education and introduced the concepts of the scientific method into medical practice.' As a result, medicine's scientific achievements are phenomenal; its social accomplishments are more modest. This "revolution" is over, and the next is upon us, heralded, if not initiated, by...

SUMMARY In order to oblain the quantity of published papers, written and translated books and supervised thesis by staffs of universities of medical sciences in Iran, informationes gathered from questionnarries tilled by 53%, of proressors and associate professors of the universities. Following scores were given for each activity: paper l, book writ ten 4, book translated 2, thesis supervised ...

Delphi as a consensus development technique enables anonymous, systematic refinement of expert opinion with the aim of arriving at a combined or consensual position. In this study, we determined the criteria and their weights for Iranian Medical Schools' ranking through a Delphi process. An expert committee devised 13 proposed criteria with 32 indicators with their weights, which were arranged ...

BACKGROUND We investigated the views of newly graduating physicians on their preparedness for postgraduate clinical training, and evaluated the relationship of preparedness with the educational environment and the pass rate on the National Medical Licensure Examination (NMLE). METHODS Data were obtained from 2429 PGY-1 physicians-in-training (response rate, 36%) using a mailed cross-sectional...

INTRODUCTION Teaching Psychology in medical curriculum has been the subject of numerous dissertations that focus on the relevance of this knowledge for doctors, at a general level. METHODS A non-systematic review of the relevant literature, particularly from the last decade, as well as national and international recommendations addressing the need for integration of behavioural and social sci...

INTRODUCTION Attracting graduates was recommended as a means of diversifying the UK medical student population. Graduates now make up nearly a quarter of the total medical student population. Research to date has focused on comparing the sociodemographic characteristics of applicants to and/or students on traditional and graduate entry programmes (GEMs), yet GEMs account for only 40% of the gra...

Introduction: Physicians have to visit, diagnose and refer patients with genetic disorders, so they need to be familiar with the basics and indications of genetic tests. In other words, they should have effective theoretical and practical knowledge about medical genetics before they do their job. Medical genetics courses at Medical Universities of Iran are generally presented as a theoretical s...