background: multiple choice questions are used for evaluation of learning in promotion residency exams. due to holding these exams in a standard way, we conducted this study to evaluate the effect of board members, promotion scholarship who designed the questions on these exams results in 2009. methods: a semi experimental research was designed and 105 exam boards of academic members were studi...

Traditionally, family doctors who had an interest in academic scholarship had no choice but to work at academic teaching centres, where teaching went hand in hand with the scholarly aspects of an academic appointment. However, in the past several years medical education has expanded beyond the boundaries of the academic teaching centres into the surrounding communities. New community-based facu...

Introduction: Curriculum has a major impact on education. The faculty members are the most important element in the success of the curriculum. The aim of this study was to determine the viewpoints of university of medical science faculty in relation to factors affecting their participation in the academic curricula. Materials and methods: This was a cross-sectional study which included 66 membe...

shahid motahari educational festival has annually been held to improve medical education quality in iran. the present study aims to determine the product of holding six courses of the festival from the viewpoints of medical sciences university faculty’s members. this cross-sectional study was conducted among 473 academic members of medical universities in iran. participants filled out a self-ad...

INTRODUCTION Scholarship is an essential part of academic success. Junior faculty members are often unfamiliar with the grounding literature that defines educational scholarship. In this article, the authors aim to summarize five key papers which outline education scholarship in the setting of academic contributions for emerging clinician educators. METHODS The authors conducted a consensus-b...

members of the 67th world health assembly in 2014 were presented with a framework document to guide world health organization (who) engagement with non-state actors, a key part of who reform kick-started in 2011. according to this document, non-state actors include four distinct constituencies: i) nongovernmental organizations (ngos), ii) private sector entities; iii) philanthropic foundations;...

PURPOSE To describe the utility of school-wide use of mission-based reporting (MBR) for medical school deans and department chairs. METHOD All faculty members in the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine reported their clinical, creative, teaching, and service activities for 2000-2001 to the MBR system. The authors report on school-wide and department MBR profiles, and profiles ...

purpose: this research aimed to survey the professional and non-professional information needs of the faculty members of ferdowsi university of mashhad. methodology: out of 664 faculty members in ferdowsi university of mashhad in the academic year of 2010-2011, 242 faculty members were selected by using stratified random sampling method. the data were collected by a researcher made questionnair...