BACKGROUND Tools for the evaluation, improvement and promotion of the teaching excellence of faculty remain elusive in residency settings. This study investigates (i) the reliability and validity of the data yielded by using two new instruments for evaluating the teaching qualities of medical faculty, (ii) the instruments' potential for differentiating between faculty, and (iii) the number of r...

1Department of Biostatistics, Medical Faculty, Uludag University, 16059 Bursa, Turkey 2Department of Anatomy, Medical Faculty, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey 3Department of Anatomy, Midwestern University, Glendale, AZ 85308, USA 4Department of Anatomy and Human Embryology, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain 5Department of Anatomy, Medical Faculty, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey 6Depa...

1. Dept. of Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Paramedicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran 2. Biotechnology Research Center, Faculty of Paramedicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran 3. Dept, of Medical Parasitology, School of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran 4. Dept. of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Tabriz University of Medi...

1 Head of Health Economics and Pharmacoeconomics, The Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia, 2 Vice Dean for Integrated Academic Studies of Dentistry, The Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia, 3 The Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia, 4 Department for Orthodontics, The Faculty of Dent...

1 Department of Radiology Technology, Faculty of Para-medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran 2 Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran 3 Department of Medical Physics, Faculty of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran 4 Department of radiology, Besat Hospital, Hamadan University of Medi...

Safaa M. EL-AGEERY*, Howayda N. Mahran 1 Medical Microbiology and Immunology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Egypt; Medical Laboratories Technology Department, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Taibah University, Saudi Arabia Medical Laboratories Technology Department, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Taibah University, Saudi Arabia; Medico-legal Department, Ministr...

1Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran 2Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran 3Department of Radiology Technology, Faculty of Para-Medical Sciences, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 4Department of Genetics, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad Univer...

BACKGROUND Preclerkship clinical-skills training has received increasing attention as a foundational preparation for clerkships. Expectations among medical students and faculty regarding the clinical skills and level of skill mastery needed for starting clerkships are unknown. Medical students, faculty teaching in the preclinical setting, and clinical clerkship faculty may have differing expect...

GRADUATE medical education is one of the core missions of academic medical centers, wherein medical specialists are responsible for teaching and supervising their future colleagues. However, being a medical specialist is no longer a sufficient qualification or proxy for competence in medical education aimed at training residents. This is particularly true given the modernization requirements fo...

1Department of Midwifery, Maternal–fetal Medicine Research Center, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 2Department of Midwifery, Community Based Psychiatric Care Research Centre, Fatemeh Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 3Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Student Research Committee, Facu...