Background Faced with one of the lowest physician-to-population ratios in the world, the Government of Tanzania is urging its medical schools to train more physicians. The annual number of medical students admitted across the country rose from 55 in the 1990s to 1,680 approved places for the 2015/16 academic year. These escalating numbers strain existing faculty. Objective To describe the avail...

the practice and study of medicine in persia has a long and prolific history. the ancient iranian medicine was combined by different medical traditions from mesopotamia, egypt, india, china and greece for more than 4000 years and merged to form what became the nucleus and foundation of medical practice in the european countries in the 13th century. the iranian academic centers like jundishapur ...

purpose: the purpose of this research is to identify and validate indicators used to evaluate research productivity of iran universities based on view of research assistants and managers of universities across the country.methodology: in other to achieve this aim documentary method and survey method were applied to identification and validation of these indicators respectively.. sample of this ...

The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health has an annual budget of more than $2.3 billion. The institute uses these funds to support fundamental biomedical research and training at universities, medical schools, and other institutions across the country. My job as director of NIGMS is to work to maximize the scientific returns on the tax...

background: medical journals are scientific resources where utilization of knowledge is availed and create an environment of competitiveness. to speed up the growth and increase scientific production and in order that the rank of iranian journals be defined regionally and globally, journal standardization is necessary. this study was done to evaluate the country's medi­cal journals from 2004-20...

background and objectives:regarding the important role and position of journals in presentation of the most up-to-date scholarly information, the scientific and meticulous evaluation of such sources is very essential. te present research was carried out to determine the citation status in the articles of the journal of qom university of medical sciences. methods:this research, as a descriptive-...