background and purpose: the first step in educational planning is identification of educational needs. the increasing scientific movement, information explosion and technology development, especially in medical sciences remind the need to empower faculty members as specialized human power. in this regard, in this study initially a valid and reliable tool was designed to investigate educational ...

background and purpose: the first step in educational planning is identification of educational needs. the increasing scientific movement, information explosion and technology development, especially in medical sciences remind the need to empower faculty members as specialized human power. in this regard, in this study initially a valid and reliable tool was designed to investigate educational ...

conclusions the persian handwriting assessment tool as a comprehensive and quickly scored tool that can help therapists identify primary school students with handwriting problems so that appropriate interventions for these students can be implemented. methods this methodological study was conducted in tehran, iran during 2015 - 2016. measurement items were selected by reviewing the past literat...

introduction: internal assessment is a part of accreditation process to improve the educational quality through academic members’ cooperation. this study aimed to determine the status of pharmacy curriculum through in isfahan school of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences (within 2008-2009) applying the internal assessment process. methods: this is a descriptive cross-sectional study. firstly, ...

introduction: rapid development of information technology, extent of information, media variety of information and the growing information needs, made librarians to keep pace with these developments in order to respond quickly, accurately and with the quality to needs of users. planning education for librarians depends on the accurate needs assessment studies and the purpose of this study was n...

BACKGROUND Along with the global fervor over evidence based medicine (EBM), certain measures have been taken in Iran too. Many educational workshops and national and international seminars have been held. Multiple educational packages have been prepared and even included in the educational curriculum. In recent years, policies have been directed toward encouraging clinical guidelines, health te...

INTRODUCTION This study examines the outcomes of a 22-hr motivational interviewing (MI) course and compares online and in-person offerings of the course. It also evaluates clinicians' ability to accurately self-assess their MI skills. METHOD 34 clinicians participated in this study and completed MI workshops either in-person or online. Use of MI in an acting patient encounter was recorded ear...

Assessing the performance of doctors while they are engaged in clinical work is a challenging concept. The introduction of objective-based curricula provides the stimulus and opportunity for the Royal Colleges of Physicians to develop relevant and reliable methods of in-service assessment. We propose to pilot a study investigating the validity, reliability and feasibility of three assessment me...