introduction: over the past 30 years, recognizing the need and importance of training residents in teaching skills has resulted in several resident-as-teacher programs. the purpose of this study was to explore the impact of this teaching initiative and investigate the improvement in residents’ teaching skills through evaluating their satisfaction and perceived effectiveness as well as assessing...

distance learning is expanding and replacing the traditional academic medical settings. managing trauma patients seems to be a prerequisite skill for medical students. this study has been done to evaluate the efficiency of distance learning on performing the initial assessment and management in trauma patients, compared with the traditional learning among senior medical students. one hundred an...

nowadays, many researches in the field of medicine are conducting all around the world and medical journalism is a way to share the results. in fact, dissemination of the related manuscripts can prevent the repetitive research or may even lead to conducting a better survey. therefore high quality medical journals are considered as up-to-date resources for further investigations. medical journal...

the emergency severity index (esi) is a five-level triage system that has shown promising reliability and validity. according to esi algorithm, in the presence of danger zone respiratory rate (rr), heart rate (hr) or oxygen (o2) saturation, patients should be up-triaged from esi level 3 to 2 hence, the current study aimed to investigate the value of the measurement of vital signs in predicting ...

orf is a mucocutaneous disease that occurs when non-intact skin comes into contact with contaminated sheep saliva. the lesions may complicate to lymphangitis or secondary bacterial infection, but systemic complications such as erythema multiforme, maculopapular rash, and generalized lymphadenopathy are rare. in this paper, we present two cases of erythema multiforme following orf disease.

background: considering the importance of an early diagnosis and proper decision-making in regards to the treatment of pediatric distal radius and elbow fractures, this study examines emergency medicine specialists’ accuracy in the diagnosis and treatment of these patients. methods: from 2012 and 2013, children less than 14 years old who were referred to an academic hospital emergency departmen...

introduction: evaluation of students’ learning in clinical education system is one of the most important and challenging issues that facilities in this field have been facing. the present study aimed to evaluate the role of feedback during evaluation in increasing emergency medicine residents’ clinical skills. method: the present experimental study was performed on all second year emergency med...