Introduction. Medical education curriculum improvements can be achieved by evaluating students’ performance. Medical students have to pass two undergraduate comprehensive examinations, basic science and preinternship, in Iran. To measure validity of the students’ mean score in comprehensive basic science exam (CBSE) for predicting their performance in later curriculum phases. Methods. This de...

A Susceptibility Locus on 1p32–1p34 for Congenital Macrostomia in a Chinese Family and Identification of a Novel PTCH2 Mutation Zhipeng Fan, Juan Du, Huimin Liu, Honglai Zhang, Andrzej A Dlugosz, Cun-Yu Wang, Ming Fan, Yan Shen, and Songlin Wang* Molecular Laboratory for Gene Therapy, Capital Medical University School of Stomatology, Beijing, PR China Department of Stomatology, Daqin Longnan Ho...

Introduction: Integrated OSPE is a multi-disciplinary practical exam where many disciplines are included. Each station written as case scenario after that the students requested to perform specific task and answer question related case. Thereafter there integration between cognitive psychomotor skills. In addition also integrated aligned with vertical in same exam, student will be assessed on k...

Aim: Doctors who want to receive expertise training have take the Medical Specialty Exam (TUS). That’s why they study for TUS in last period of their undergraduate medical education. However, content is different from education (UÇEP) which determined by national core program. This situation causes physicians preparing ignore basic knowledge. aims determine how much TUS, main purpose education,...

objective(s): citation tracking is an important method to analyze the scientific impact of journal articles and can be done through scopus (sc), google scholar (gs), or isi web of knowledge (wos). in the current study, we analyzed the citations to 2011-2012 articles of iranian journal of basic medical sciences (ijbms) in these three resources.   material and methods: the relevant data from sc, ...

introduction: traditional methods are generally used for teaching basic science courses at shiraz medical school. such courses are taught during the first and second years of a seven-year medical program. the goal of this study was to analyze teachers and students’ perceptions of basic science teaching in medical education. methods: a descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at the colle...