background addiction is considered a basic structural problem in modern society, and seems to reach an epidemic scale in the last decades. choosing a method to fulfill the intervention is an important issue to conduct educational interventions to prevent addictive behaviors. in this regard, web-based education has been widely used to introduce preventive programs to risky behaviors during recen...

BACKGROUND Simulation-based medical education has become a powerful tool in improving the quality of care provided by health professionals. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effect of a simulated patient-based educational program for military recruitment center physicians on the quality of medical encounters with adolescent candidates for military service. METHODS Twelve physicians participated in...

Triage ability is a critical skill the members of a disaster medical assistance team (DMAT) should possess. There are few data concerning the triage accuracy in the pre-hospital providers and the members of DMAT. We thus conducted a lecture-based intervention and evaluated the impact of the triage method using a written multiple-casualty incident (MCI) scenario. We enrolled and tested 30 volunt...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of an educational intervention in adolescent health designed for general practitioners in accordance with evidence based practice in continuing medical education. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial with baseline testing and follow up at seven and 13 months. SETTING Local communities in metropolitan Melbourne, Australia. PARTICIPANTS 108 self selecte...

PURPOSE To examine changes in health habits (sleep, alcohol, and exercise) and the effects of an educational intervention promoting self-care on the emotional and academic adjustment of first-year medical students. METHOD Fifty-four medical students completed questionnaires that assessed various health habits, alcohol use, depression severity, and areas of life satisfaction at the beginning o...

BACKGROUND Empathy is critical to the development of professionalism in medical students, and the humanities-particularly literature-have been touted as an effective tool for increasing student empathy. This quantitative/qualitative study was undertaken to assess whether reading and discussing poetry and prose related to patients and doctors could significantly increase medical student empathy ...

background and purpose: severity of illness scoring systems is used for the classification of patients to receive medical services, predict the risk of mortality, determine hospital bed occupancy, and assess treatment progress. in iran, these scoring systems are not frequently used due to the lack of knowledge of medical staff. this study aimed to evaluate the effect of education on the knowled...

the effect of manual pressure on intramuscular injection pain severity     nasiry h [1] , rahmani anaraki h [2] , asayesh h [3] *, hesam m [4] , shariati ar [5] , bathai sa [6]     received: 10 dec , 2012 accepted: 21 feb , 2013     abstract:   background & aims : pain is one of the common experiences with intramuscular (im) injection. pain relieving technique is very important in promotion of ...