Background: Awareness about the actual information needs is a necessity in correct decision making for developing or improvement of information centers. This study aimed on investigating the information needs of students and university professors of Birjand University of Medical sciences. Methods: In this descriptive-analytical study conducted in 2009, 422 students were selected based on syste...

Sir The Defence Medical Library Service (DMLS) mission statement is ‘to provide a high quality and cost-effective library and information service to meet the worldwide requirements of Defence Medical Services in the areas of clinical education and training in primary and secondary care.’ I have access to three Athens literature accounts through my current workplace, Royal College membership and...

This paper describes the results of the study on "Family-friendliness of the Medical Studies in Baden-Württemberg" carried out in 2009-2011 by the working group "Family, Time policy and E-Learning" of the University Hospital of Ulm, supported by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg. This state-wide survey of the studying conditions and personal circumstances of me...

what can wait, something textbooks can never communicate so effectively. At least two other considerations apply to the choice of medical school. Schools differ in tradition, atmosphere, and attitude. Study the prospectus to try to get an idea of whether the personality of a school would fit with your own and discover the school's admission policy concerning A level grades, resits, age, and pre...

incidence, causes and outcomes of ventilator-associated pneumonia in the medical intensive care unit    amri meleh p [1] , bayani m [2] *, nikbakhsh n [3] , pourhassan a [4] , marzban m [5] , shirkhani z [6] , damavandi f [7] , soleimaniyan ss [8]     received: 15 may , 2013 accepted: 14 aug , 2013    abstract  background & aims : ventilator associated pneumonia is one of the most common h ospi...

competency- based mastery learning: a planned clinical experience for nursing students     baghaei r [1] , mohammadpour y [2] *, habibzade h [3] , rasouli d [4] , khalilzadeh h [5] , jafarizadeh h [6]    received: 2 may, 2011 accepted: 6 july, 2011   abstract  background & aims: clinical education is one of the most important and crucial parts of nursing education. successful clinical education...

contents   ◘ neoadjuvant chemotherapy in bladder cancer adib sereshki m.m. kashan university of medical sciences, iran 1 ◘ new advances of proteomics in early detection of pancreatic cancer adib sereshki m.m. kashan university of medical science, iran 1 ◘ peripheral blood changes in pulmonary tuberculosis before and after treatment eishi a., rahimi e. urmia university of medical sciences, iran ...

Honor for Dr. Vernon Lippard is richly merited but perhaps poorly served by an essay on relationships between medical education and universities. Doctor Lippard could do the job so much better himself. In fact, more than a decade ago he did it with his presidential address before the Association of American Medical Colleges.' Doctor Lippard's thesis, presented under the title, "The Medical Scho...