introducation: cancers are the third most common cause of death in iran. colorectal cancer is an ideal tumor for screening. therefore, early diagnosis through screening can reduce its prevalence and mortality. on the other hand, knowledge of practitioners about screening programs has a direct relationship with their performance. methods: in a cross-sectional-educational study, knowledge, attitu...

this study aims to investigate the quality of life (qol) of tehran university of medical sciences' (tums) medical students at different educational levels and specify the most important factors related to this quality. a sample of 242 medical students was selected randomly, given their number in three educational levels (basic sciences, physiopathology-stager and intern). the qol was measured b...

introduction: integration of public health and medical education has been thought to have an important role in medical students’ training. shiraz university of medical sciences has developed an md/mph dual degree educational program for the talented volunteer students. the aim of this study was to assess the students’ viewpoints about various aspects of shiraz md/mph program. methods: this cros...

conclusions existences of gap in dimensions indicated that expectations of students are not met and it indicates their dissatisfaction, and thus it is a necessity for improvement in all dimensions. results in overall, 80% of educational expectations were not meet; there was a negative gap at all phrases and dimensions and the gap was more negative for educational experts (-1.45 ± 0.89) compared...

introduction: measles is a severe contagious disease preventable by vaccination. besides the prevalence of measles in iran, ministry of health conducted a nation-wide vaccination against measles for all the 5-25 years old population in 2003. this study was done to evaluate the anti measles igg antibody among the medical students from baqiyatallah university of medical science. materials & metho...

abstract   background: academic burnout is the state of negative emotions and low motivation in one’s education. understanding the status of academic burnout is the primary step to make proper decisions. the present study, therefore, was conducted to investigate comparative degrees of academic burnout among medical students in their first five semesters of medical education at shahid beheshti u...

background: the aims of the research that formed the basis of the current study are as follows: determining methods that are used by teachers for giving feedback in clinical settings. determining types of feedback, teachers give to their students in clinical settings. determining barriers of giving feedback and its important teachers’ experience in clinical settings. methods: this applied resea...

objectives: the aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a new psychiatry clerkship curriculum which was designed to improve the knowledge and skills of medical students of tehran university of medical sciences (tums), iran. methods: this quasi-experimental study was conducted in two consecutive semesters from february 2009 to january 2010. in total, 167 medical students participated i...

background: despite more than a decade experience of annual student congresses in iran, major scientific writing weakness still exists in students’ abstracts submitted to the annual research congress of iran’s medical sciences students (arcimss). assessment of these abstracts can provide information on common scientific writing errors and subsequent development of abstract quality for the futur...

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