background: academic failure of medical and medical sciences students is one of the major problems of higher education centers in many countries. this study aims to collect and compare relevant researches in this field in iran. methods: the appropriate keywords were searched in the national and international databases, and the findings were categorized into related and non-related articles acco...

background organizational entrepreneurship focuses on proactive actions, which may lead to the new productions, new services and/or new processes. implementation of organizational entrepreneurship plans has many benefits including organizational cost reduction and the increase of organizational capital assets. objectives this study aimed to investigate the organizational entrepreneurship status...

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...

the widespread use of internet has caused new psychological, social, and educational problems for the students. the aim of this study was to examine the quality of life in medical students who suffer from internet addiction. this cross-sectional survey was carried out in tehran university of medical sciences, and a total of 174 fourth-to seventh-year undergraduate medical students were enrolled...

introduction: one of the common methods for scientific activity assessment is scientometrics. it has been made possible with citation databases like web of science (wos) and scopus. in this paper, we studied the scientific production rate of hamadan university of medical sciences during 11 years via scientometrics methods. methods: in a descriptive, cross-sectional study, data was collected by ...

background the critical role that the board plays in governance of universities clarifies the necessity of evaluating its performance. this study was aimed to evaluate the performance of the boards of medical universities and provide solutions to enhance its performance.   methods the first phase of present study was a qualitative research in which data were collected through face-to-face semi-...

background: emotional intelligence (ei) has recently been considered as one of the necessary elements for success and achievement in medical fields. the present study was conducted in iran to compare the ei in medical and non-medical students adjusted for the other relevant factors. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted from october 2011 to january 2012 on 872 students of medicine, ...

introduction: the use of new technologies has created much concern about privacy and security of health information. as regards health care workers are the main users of hospital information system aiming to improve the quality of care, this study as aimed to evaluate employee's perspective towards electronic health information security.   methods: this descriptive study was performed on 400 wo...