background: teachers' self-efficacy and development may be conceptualized as their beliefs in their own ability to plan, organize and carry out activities that are required to attain educational goals. in this study, we examined the effect of different medical education training courses (six-day, one- month short- term and six-month long- term courses) on perceived self-efficacy and development...

background: medical education need to efficient teaching programs and the importance of lesson plans is irrefutable in promoting of education. this study aimed to use the assure model in studying the knowledge and attitudes of university faculty members' about the lesson plan at 2013 years. methods: the study was a descriptive analytical study and the study population was consisted of universit...

background: in order to evaluate educational courses, usually different criteria of student and academic staff are being used. these criteria for students include their number, fields, the ratio of post-garaduate students to all students, and for staff, they are composed of their number, their rank in the academic pyramid, as well as the ratio of students to academic staff classified based on t...

dear editor regarding to development of basic science and new methods in biochemistry in recent years, practical biochemistry contents should be optimized (1). therefore, re-attitude biochemistry course contents in medical schools has paralleled worldwide trends a moved from current status is needed (2, 3). as reported by investi­gators many medical schools around the world have reformed their ...

Rodolfo W. L. Coutinho Pos-Graduation Program in Electrical Engineering Federal University of Para Belém, Pará, Brazil Email: [email protected] Vitor L. Coelho Faculty of Computer Science Federal University of Pará Belém, Pará, Brazil Email: [email protected] Joao C. W. A. Costa Pos-Graduation Program in Electrical Engineering Federal University of Pará Belém, Pará, Brazil Email: [email protected]...