background: one of the main indexes of development is health index or the degree to which a society enjoys health and therapeutic services. the present study was done with the aim to analyze development levels in cities in tehran regarding health infrastructural index using the standardized score and morris’ model. methods: this is a descriptive and pragmatic study which ranks 14 cities in tehr...

Coin-rotation task (CRT), a measure of rapid, coordinated finger movements, was devised as a convenient, easily administered bedside test of motor dexterity; however, very little psychometric data exist regarding this task. The current project was undertaken to (a) provide preliminary normative data, (b) examine the convergent and discriminant validity of the task when compared with other stand...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Virtual environments for use in stroke rehabilitation are in development, but there has been little evaluation of their suitability for this purpose. We evaluated a virtual environment developed for the rehabilitation of the task of making a hot drink. METHODS Fifty stroke patients undergoing rehabilitation in a UK hospital stroke unit were involved. The performance of ...

introduction: medical student should be trained in medical ethics and one of the most essential issues in this field is taking informed consents. in this research, we compared the effect of effectiveness of teaching methods on students’ ability in taking informed consent from patients. methods: this semi-experimental study was carried out on fifty eight subjects from the 4th-year students of sh...

in order to equip medical students with all the necessary skills in dealing with patients to provide optimal treatment, the need for the use of real patients in educational settings has become prominent. but all the required skills cannot be practiced on real patients due to patients’ safety and well-being. thus, the use of standardized patients (sps) or simulated patients (sips) as a substitut...