objective: university students account for human resource of each society and will make the future of their country. psychological disturbances such as depression and hopelessness can affect daily life and scholastic process of university students. the authors intended to determine the prevalence of depression amongst students of shahid sadoughi university of medical sciences, yazd, iran. metho...

introduction: teaching medical professionalism is increasingly acknowledged as an important aspect of medical education. the professionalism mini-evaluation exercise (p-mex) is an assessment tool for evaluating medical professionalism, but no studies using it as a self-assessment instrument have been reported. this paper reports on a preliminary investigation of the finnish version of the p-mex...

introduction: quantitative and qualitative enhancement of educational activities is an essential issue. learners’ cooperation in the teaching process in order to increase teaching effectiveness and promotion is considered significant. the aim of the present study was to determine the effect of establishment of student working group on the teaching general embryology course to medical students. ...

results the overall perceived stress mean was 32.02 (sd = 5.08). eighty-three percent of the medical students perceived stress. students in clinical phase perceived more stress than basic sciences ones [or 2.25, 95% ci 1.809 - 4.032]. logistic regression analysis showed demographic (including gender and residential status), psychosocial and academic factors and the phase of study as sources of ...

the study of stressful factors in clinical education for nursing students studying in nursing and midwifery college in khorramabad     saki m [1] *, gholami m [2] , jariani m [3] , asti p [4] , saki m [5]     received: 23 oct , 2011 accepted: 5 jan , 2012     abstract   background & aims : clinical education is the main part of nursing education and without it training efficient and competent n...

background: english for specific purposes (esp) courses should empower students to satisfy their language needs. however, at many iranian universities, these courses are mostly taught based on the grammar translation method focusing on teaching grammatical rules and reading comprehension. the present study aims at proposing an innovative approach for teaching english to medical students that ca...

Because medical professionals have to understand their patients’ conditions, students in medical and nursing schools need to practice physical assessments. Since real patients and clinical situations are difficult to produce in school settings, many kinds of simulators have been developed to enable students to practice physical assessments. Simulated patients do not need additional cost but do ...

introduction: anxiety is one of the most common mental disorders of community that affects the quality of life. hospitals are associated with human’s life and death and their environment is very stressful. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of anxiety among medical students of hormozgan university of medical sciences. methods: this cross-sectional study was carried out in hor...

today, due to ever-increasing knowledge and large volumes of information, educational planners of various fields around the world, have been seeking to establish a better and faster refresh for learning. integration can be a good educational strategy by blending different subjects and contents when presented to students. the aim of this study is to evaluate the medical literature about integrat...

background: the four pillars of ethics are human dignity, beneficence, non-malfeasance and justice. among the application of ethics in medical research we can look at all of any of these principles specially. in the other hand, in iran there is a long history in the field of medical science and medical ethics from earlier muslim scholars to islamic flourishing period. in this study we aimed to ...