Academic surgeons play an instrumental role in the training of our medical students and surgical residents. Although volunteer faculty often have an important role in the clinical development of surgeons-in-training, the tasks of curricular development, structured didactic sessions, professional advising, research sponsorship, and mentoring at all levels fall to the academic surgeon. Historical...

introduction: studies have indicated that emotional intelligence is positively related to self-efficacy and can predict the academic achievement. the present study aimed to investigate the role of emotional intelligence in identifying self-efficacy among the students of public health school with different levels of academic achievement. methods: this correlational study was conducted on all the...

the purpose of this research was to determine the effect of life skills training schedule on self-esteem and academic self-efficacy of the one - grade high school male students. forty male students of one - grade high school from district of six in tehran city were chosen with the multi – stage random sampling. groups had been matched with a view to academic achievement and iq coefficient. they...

The Relation of Vocational Training to Academic Education M. Bohlooli Faskhoodi S. Zarghami, Ph.D. Y. Ghaedi, Ph.D. R. Barkhordari, Ph.D. The traditional approach to education advocates a dichotomy between vocational training and academic education. Some scholars contend that the knowledge which resides in minds of individuals is more valuable than hands-on skills, wherea...

Working memory (WM) is one of our core cognitive functions, allowing us to keep information in mind for shorter periods of time and then work with this information. It is the gateway that information has to pass in order to be processed consciously. A well-functioning WM is therefore crucial for a number of everyday activities including learning and academic performance (Gathercole et al., 2003...

objective: in this study, a new training method of working memory (wm) was used in the form of structured games, and the effect of training was evaluated with a controlled design. the training method of wm in the form of structured games includes 20 sets of structured games that can improve wm and performance of executive functions. method: sixty children with attention deficit hyperactivity di...