quality of clinical education for medical students has always been a concern in academic medicine. this concern has increased in today’s time-squeeze while faculty members have to fulfill their complementary roles as a teacher, researcher, and practitioner. one of the strategies for program evaluation is obtaining trainees’ feedbacks since they are the main customers of educational programs; ho...

Background Iran is designing an evidence-based plan for promoting postgraduate medical education and efficient distribution of health professional human resources. An important part of this program is foresight studies for post graduate medical education considering the important trends affecting the future of health status and postgraduate medical education in Iran. In this article, we clarify...

introduction: research has asserted mcq items using three response options (one correct answer with two distractors) is comparable to, and possibly preferable over, traditional mcq item formats consisting of four response options (e.g., one correct answer with three distractors), or five response options (e.g., one correct answer with four distractors). some medical educators have also adopted ...

background as a developing country, iran has not had a substantial share in global science production activities; however, this country has recently been the forth country in the world regarding research output publications, and biomedical research has played a crucial role in achieving this honorable position. objectives in this paper, we aimed to introduce the strategies employed at baqiyatal...

conclusions considering the recent advances in medical curriculum it seems that teaching anatomy should be improved by shifting to new methods in teaching and evaluation. results our findings showed that 82% of iranian anatomists use lecture and 83.5% of them believe dissection is the best method for teaching anatomy. according to our study, anatomists in iran agree that clinical points and app...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: use of the internet to retrieve health information is increasingly common . the present study aimed to determine the ratio of attitude, skill and performance of faculty members in using computer and internet in research and educational affairs at mazandaran university of medical sciences . methods: in this cr...

Concerns about the influence of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries on continuing medical education (CME) have been voiced frequently over the past decade.1 Reliance on industry funding increases the potential for bias. Industry-supported CME often emphasizes conditions that can be treated with newer drugs or devices rather than those with the greatest public health impact, and ris...