measures aimed at bringing the hospital medical staffing structure into balance over the next 10 earss' This initiative has been endorsed by the Central Committee for Hospital Medical Services and the Hospital Junior StaffCommittee. If the proposals are agreed implementation will start on 1 January 1987 and will result in major changes to the junior hospital doctors' career structure. This stud...

Objectives To examine the perception of educational environment among clinical year students in Thailand using Dundee ready education environment measure (DREEM) and identify factors associated with the DREEM scores. Methods A total of 2,467 fourth- to sixth-year students from 34 teaching hospitals nationwide responded to a Thai version of DREEM questionnaire. Data on each student's sex, year...

introduction: increasing volume of information in various sciences, such as medicine, has led to the use of various strategies to effectively provide students, researchers, and teachers with medical and paramedical information. the iranian ministry of health and medical education has developed an online digital library, called iranian national medical digital library (inmdl), which provides acc...

introduction: users of hospital information system know its problems better than others. studying their views are very important and can be especially effective in the development of the information system. the aim of this study was to investigate the users' views towards the quality of hospital information system in the training hospitals of mashhad university of medical sciences. methods: the...

I t is widely accepted that ‘‘continuity of care’’ is vital to its quality and safety. The traditional approach to achieving this in the inpatient setting has been to minimize transfers among providers to reduce interruptions in the care process. In recent years the effort to limit duty hours for resident physicians (junior doctors) in the US, UK, and EU has highlighted the fact that continuity...

readiness assessment provides a proper image of the existing conditions and an explanation of facilitated operational plans and functional approaches to successful implementation of electronic health record. readiness assessment requires indices adjusted to particular conditions in each country. therefore, the present study attempts to provide an acceptable model in iran and to provide an asses...

Improving the quality of school teaching through the professional development of teachers is a global concern echoed with growing urgency in a vast array of political and educational circles. In this paper, I outline our research on Quality Teaching and Quality Teaching Rounds, emphasising the importance of a strong pedagogical framework and adherence to principles of effective professional dev...

Importance Few studies have analyzed contemporary data on outcomes at US teaching hospitals vs nonteaching hospitals. Objective To examine risk-adjusted outcomes for patients admitted to teaching vs nonteaching hospitals across a broad range of medical and surgical conditions. Design, Setting, and Participants Use of national Medicare data to compare mortality rates in US teaching and nonte...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate an intervention to prevent falls at a hospital. DESIGN A quasi-experimental intervention with historical and contemporaneous control groups. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Nursing staff and patients in the medicine service (comprising 2 intervention floors and 2 control floors) at an academic hospital. INTERVENTION Nursing staff were educated regarding fall prevention duri...

OBJECTIVES To date, experiences of leaders in the implementation of Lean after a Lean Training Programme have not been systematically investigated within teaching hospitals. Existing studies have identified barriers and facilitators only from an improvement programme perspective and have not considered the experiences of leaders themselves. This study aims to bridge this gap. DESIGN Semistruc...