introduction: second national medical sciences olympiad was done in shiraz in august 2010 with aim of indentifying scientifically talented individuals, motivating students and orienting extracurricular activities. this olympiad was done in 3 areas, basic sciences, clinical sciences and management. in clinical sciences, we used tosce (team objective structured clinical examination). in this arti...

BACKGROUND Medical errors are inherently of concern in modern health care. Although surgical errors as incorrect surgery (e.g., wrong patient, wrong site, or wrong procedure) are infrequent, they are devastating events to experience. To gain insight about incidents that could lead to incorrect surgery, we surveyed how surgical team members perceive near misses and their attitudes towards the us...

Background: Non-technical skills are interpersonal and cognitive skills involved in safe performance and preventingadverse events during surgery. it is necessary to dominate the non-technical skills to ensure patient safety. This studyhas aimed to assess the validity and reliability of Oxford Non-technical skills 2 system (Oxford NOTECHS 2) in Iran andto evaluate surgical teams’ non-technical s...

introduction: surgical site infection is one of the most common nosocomial infections and today it is believed that this infection caused by bacterias which penetrate into the wound during operation. surgery team members who have much contact with surgical site tissues, can control this infection by observing infection control principles. this study was done in order to determine performance ra...

Purpose: To assess sound-level exposure during vitrectomy using 3 of the most common commercially available machines. Methods: This noninterventional cross-sectional study examined sound emission from Constellation, Stellaris, and EVA vitrector systems. For each machine, a noise dosimeter was used to measure surgeon surgical cases in which performed. Sound levels associated with progressively i...