scientific educational-research festivals are regularly designed programmes in which one or more educational or research areas are discussed. every festival is usually focused on a specific academic domain, and relevant activities in one specific time period (e.g. one year) are investigated. these festivals provide an appropriate situation for the scientific competition among educational and re...

BACKGROUND Special incidents are harmful events that can result in people's death or injury. Despite registering special incidents' data in Iran, no study has yet been conducted to identify the types, rates, mortality and morbidity of such incidents and their associated factors. The present study was conducted to assess the epidemiology of incidents and their associated factors during 2014 in I...

1Paediatric Digestive Disease Research Centre, Mofid Children’s Hospital, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran (Correspondence to A.A. Sayyari: [email protected]). 2Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. 3Department of Gastroenterology, Henri Mondor Hospital, Paris University XII, Creteil, France. Received: 06/05/03; accepted: 15/...

BACKGROUND Several systems have been proposed to rank academic institutions worldwide. We aimed to introduce a new method of Health Research System (HRS) evaluation in Iran. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, a specific questionnaire has been used to assess stewardship, capacity building, and knowledge production through annual evaluations of HRS in Iran. This article has explored the res...

islamic iran, on the horizon of the 2025 outlook document, should obtain first regional rank in economic, social, scientific, and cultural domains. country’s noticeable growth in scientific production and dynamic movement of iranian scientists and specialists in scientific frontiers resulted in the country earning first rank in regional scientific production, leaving behind turkey, in the year ...

1 Liver and Gastrointestinal Diseases Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran 2Tabriz Health Services Management Research Center, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran 3 Medical Philosophy and History Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran 4 Student’s Research Committee, Tabriz University ...

this study aims to investigate the quality of life (qol) of tehran university of medical sciences' (tums) medical students at different educational levels and specify the most important factors related to this quality. a sample of 242 medical students was selected randomly, given their number in three educational levels (basic sciences, physiopathology-stager and intern). the qol was measured b...