The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC), in collaboration with biomedical researchers and healthcare practitioners from the University of Tennessee: College of Medicine Chattanooga and Erlanger Health System, has conducted the first iteration of a three-year Research Experiences for Undergraduates program on Biomedical Informatics, with a special emphasis on ethics as related to the st...

Complementary medicine treatments are used by two in three Australians each year and have been taught in Australian universities for two decades. The negative media campaign initiated by the self named ‘Friends of Science in Medicine’ (FSM) is an unfortunate and retrograde step for the progress of science and openness in healthcare. It reflects a dismal view of scientific debate and a shameless...

background: pamphlet is a tool used for distance continuous professional development programs. in this study, we assessed the impact of an educational pamphlet on improving prescription writing errors in general physicians’ performance.   methods : in this randomized controlled interventional study, we prepared a training pamphlet according to the most prevalent prescription writing problems. w...

background: health system research (hsr) is system planning, coordination, monitoring and management of research resources and activities to achieve health and justice. as the main members of the health system, general practitioners (gps) play an important role in access to health care goals. the aim of the present study was to assess knowledge, attitude, and performance of gps in rafsanjan, ir...

If the needs of future midwifery practitioners are to be met it is essential that health-care education is evaluated to ensure that learning opportunities are relevant, dynamic and aligned with professional policy recommendations. In 2004, midwifery lecturers from Bournemouth University (BU) carried out an evaluation of four specific elements of the student practice and education experience wit...

Background: The dramatic increase in the number of general practitioners and their limited job situations has increased the desire to continue studies in specialized fields. However, different fields are not desired in the same way. Therefore, to plan for the guidance of general practitioners towards fields needed for the society, understanding the motives for choosing a field is necessary. The...