test the psychometric properties of the persian version of the perception of psychiatry survey questionnaire, which is being used in a large multi-site international study, of which we were part. this instrument was designed to measure the attitudes of medical educators to psychiatry.we used world health organization guideline as the methodological model for persian translation. the persian ver...

background: educational development center (edc) establishment is one of the procedures to improve quality of medical education. as positive knowledge and attitude of lecturers and students are essential factors to gain access to goals of these centers, the aim of this project was to assess knowledge and satisfaction of faculty members and students about edc activities, babol-2010. methods: thi...

habibi r1 * (msc), karshky h2 (ph.d), dashtgard a3 (msc), heidary a4 (ph.d), talaei a5 (ph.d)     1 department of emergency medicine, school of para medicine, qazvin university of medical sciences, qazvin, iran   2 faculty of psychology, mashhad ferdowsi university   3 faculty of nursing and midwifery school, ghaen   4 nursing and midwifery school, mashhad university of medical sciences, mashha...

fulfilling the related responsibilities has ethical aspects that must be addressed carefully. each role requires extensive training, which usually takes place in university institutions. ethics is applied in at least three academic areas, including: a) in education of students’ personal growth, b) in patient care, and c) in university comm:union: in population-based health care. given the impor...

background: faculty development programs have received considerable investment of resources from medical institutions, though the effect and output of them has been infrequently studied. this study was design to measure the effect of the mashhad university of medical sciences’ faculty development workshops. methods: three faculty development workshops on educational research were conducted to i...

Unlike in the past, standards for quantity and quality of work expected from medical school faculty are continuously rising, causing changes stress various areas. This highlights need career development among professional, personal, organizational, societal reasons. The role has become more diverse, leading to an increase types levels competencies required. Medical schools must support their me...

The ancient Indian story of the blind men and the elephant, descending to us through the Greeks and to the Japanese through Buddhism and China, reminds us that a single individual can gain only a partial perception of a complex phenomenon in which he is interested, and that his conclusions depend on his own experiences and interactions with that phenomenon, rather than on the totality of the ph...

Fllahi Sh1, Ghorvi MJ2, Qara-gozlou B3, Sepahvand A1, Mahouti F4 1. Instructor, Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences 2. Associate Professor, Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Para-medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences 3. Instructor, Department of Immunology, Faculty of Para-medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences 4. B.Sc of ...