extractcontinuing education is not new for us because there  is emphasis on learning and continuing education  in our culture including literature, religion, and special  traditions in different ways  .as prophet muhammad (pbuh) says: “seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave” that  it is emphasis on continuous learning and continuous. in the holy quran  the word of “alam “repeatedly stated ...

OBJECTIVE To survey parents bringing children to an urban pediatric primary care clinic about (1) how they learned parenting skills, (2) role of the clinic in teaching parenting, (3) helpfulness of information sources, and (4) preferred modalities for teaching. METHODS A total of 108 adults completed an oral survey in clinic, consisting of open-ended questions, yes/no endorsements, Likert rat...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Infants who live in households experiencing food insecurity are at risk for negative health and developmental outcomes. Despite large numbers of households within our population experiencing food insecurity, identification of household food insecurity during standard clinical care is rare. The objective of this study was to use quality-improvement methods to increase i...

BACKGROUND Overall usage of email communication between patients and physicians continues to increase, due in part to expanding the adoption of electronic health records and patient portals. Unequal access and acceptance of these technologies has the potential to exacerbate disparities in care. Little is known about the attitudes of pediatric caregivers with regard to their acceptance of email ...

Doctor Shoja-ad-Din Sheikholeslamzadeh (also known as Dr. Sheikh) (1931-2014) was an outstanding orthopedic surgeon. He is credited for the establishment of the Iranian Association of Rehabilitation, Shafa Yahyaian Hospital as an Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Center, the Social Welfare Organization, Iran’s emergency dispatch center (115) and many other major projects that led to the upgrading o...

background: job satisfaction remains as an important concern for both employer and employee. the leaving of work­place and migration to city centers is one of the main results of job dissatisfaction among the primary health care (phc) provid­ers in rural setting of iran, behvarzes. determining the predictor's factors of the phc providers' job dissatisfac­tion and provid­ing appropriate strategi...

1 Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2 The Dutch Cochrane Centre, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 3 Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Staffordshire, The United Kingdom, 4 Radboud Institute for Heal...

background: designing intervention based on health-care settings resources and patient acceptability is potentially important in the prevention of high blood pressure (bp) and other risk factors of cardiovascular disease. to explain a multicenter randomized controlled trial that is designed to examine the effects of the multicomponent lifestyle modification program on bp. materials and methods:...