In recent years medical educators have explored a number of educational techniques in an effort to improve current teaching practices. Introduction of clinical clerkships a number of years ago provided an opportunity for greater individualization of student experience during the third and fourth years. Instead of attending formal didactic lectures and demonstrations, the student was given the r...

INTRODUCTION The Ethics Committees (EC) are established to safeguard the safety and rights of the subjects participating in a research study. No formal training about Ethics Committee is given to the medical students in undergraduate and post graduate education as a part of curriculum. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To study the awareness about the composition and functioning of EC amongst the medical t...

THF title of this talk is "Whither Medicine,"-which means of course that, at aniv rate for part of this address, I intend to trv and examine the changes that mav come about in our profession, and more still those changes which we should try to produce. The future does not just happen; it is made by our own efforts, or lack of them, now in the present; and what we do now depends on what has gone...

BACKGROUND Despite the large body of evidence suggesting that effective public health infrastructure is vital to improving the health status of populations, many universities in developing countries offer minimal opportunities for graduate training in public health. In Nepal, for example, only two institutions currently offer a graduate public health degree. Both institutions confer only a gene...

background and purpose: today, according to busy doctors, one of the ways to keep their medical information up to date is the use of evidence-based medicine (ebm). the purpose of this study was to determine the educational needs of ebm in clinical faculty members working in shahid beheshti university hospitals in tehran and the prioritization of these needs . methods: the study was descriptive,...