received: november 2005 accepted: feburary 2006 corresponding author: dr aeen mohammadi, is a researcher in , the secretariat for education and student affairs of ministry of health and medical education,tehran, iran . 13 th floor, secretariat for education and student affairs, ministry of health and medical education, simaye iran st., falamak jonoobi ave, shahrake ghods, tehran email: aeenmoha...

PURPOSE To discuss the development, pilot testing, and analysis of a 34-item semantic differential instrument for measuring medical school applicants' emotional intelligence (the EI instrument). METHOD The authors analyzed data from the admission interviews of 147 1997 applicants to a six-year BS/MD program that is composed of three consortium universities. They compared the applicants' score...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: some of the most frequently used webometric indicators for evaluating and ranking academic web sites are web impact factor, number of web pages and number of inlinks. the present study evaluated and ranked top iranian medical universities according to the webometric indicators. methods: the present cross-sect...

INTRODUCTION The learner-centred approach in medical and health sciences education makes the study of learning preferences relevant and important. This study aimed to investigate the interdisciplinary, inter-institutional, gender and racial differences in the preferred learning styles among Malaysian medical and health sciences students in three Malaysian universities, namely SEGi University (S...

CONFLICT OF INTEREST NONE DECLARED. INTRODUCTION The study of the scientific evidence citation production by famous databases of the world is one of the important indicators to evaluate and rank the universities. The study at investigating the scientific production of Northern Iran Medical Sciences Universities in Scopus from 2005 through 2010. METHOD This survey used scientometrics techniq...

INTRODUCTION Physicians have to visit, diagnose and refer patients with genetic disorders, so they need to be familiar with the basics and indications of genetic tests. In other words, they should have effective theoretical and practical knowledge about medical genetics before they do their job. Medical genetics courses at Medical Universities of Iran are generally presented as a theoretical su...

There is a significant increase in the physician availability in Chile in the last 15 years, due to the immigration of foreign physicians, but mainly due to the increasing number of graduates from private universities with medical schools. In the last four years, the number of physicians increased from 25.542 to 29.996 and the number of graduates, from 918 to 1.136. These figures show a nearly ...

The Diffusion of Information Technology and the Increased Propensity of Teams to Transcend Institutional and National Borders This study examines the relationship between the diffusion of IT and changes in collaboration patterns across institutional and national borders. To undertake the research, the authors match an explicit measure of institutional IT adoption (domain names, e.g. www.umsl.ed...

1 University Professor, Senior Consultant in Endocrinology and Immediate Past Vice-Chancellor National University of Singapore, Singapore Address for Correspondence: Professor Lim Pin, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119074. Email: [email protected] I am deeply conscious of the conspicuous honour of being invited to deliver the inaugural...