background and purpose: ideal education is obtained when excellence and promotion of faculty members (faculty development) considered in the university and it will not be possible unless the roles of faculty members (teachers) are explained in education. in addition, by extracting these roles we can reason a part of policies of conditional employment (contractual) and fixed employment, and theo...

Introduction and Discipline Specific Context There has been much debate regarding "embodiment" and on-line learning in education in general. Traditionally face to face teaching has been the norm in medical and veterinary medical education. This is historical, with both disciplines developing over hundreds of years and adopting an apprenticeship model. However, with the development of medical ed...

background: the aims of the research that formed the basis of the current study are as follows: determining methods that are used by teachers for giving feedback in clinical settings. determining types of feedback, teachers give to their students in clinical settings. determining barriers of giving feedback and its important teachers’ experience in clinical settings. methods: this applied resea...

introduction: note taking while attending a ppt requires high activity of memory and writing process which ultimately leads to what is called “death by power point” referring to boredom and fatigue. to overcome this we planned to evaluate the impact of utilisation of uncompleted handouts given prior to ppt presentations. methods: final year mbbs students were divided in 2 batches, batch a and b...

background: training methods that enhance nurses' learning and retention will increase the quality of patient care. this study aimed to compare the effectiveness of electronic learning and educational booklet on the nurses' retention of diabetes updates.   methods: in this controlled trial study, convenience sampling was used to select 123 nurses from the endocrinology and internal medicine war...