background and objective: one way to promote education quality is to evaluate faculty activities by students, departmental heads, and the dean. the degree of correspondence between students' and departmental heads' evaluation shows how honest they are in their assessment. the current paper intends to find the truth.     materials and methods : questionnaires were used to conduct the s...

conclusions although the efficacy of nursing doctoral program is good, however, it needs revision to enhance the outcomes of the program in order to meet public needs and to increase learners’ satisfaction. materials and methods this cross-sectional study was conducted on 90 nursing students who were conveniently selected from seven nursing schools. a questionnaire designed based on the patrick...

conclusions implementing the self-management program plus regular follow-up increased the perception of self-efficacy in patients with ms. similar self-management programs are recommended to be integrated in the regular caring of patients with ms. results no significant difference in mean scores of baseline self-efficacy was found between the control (52.90 ± 8.03) and the intervention groups (...

background: emphasis on revise and provide new methods of evaluation in medical colleges are widely increasing. evaluation methods based on clinical practice and students’ performance appraisement in health care system and in medical student is introduced as an effective method in some studies. methods: the aim of this study was to consider the usefulness of a new method to evaluate the medical...

background: drug utilization studies are helpful in understanding the current practice. we have conducted a retrospective study to evaluate the relevant use of a group of most commonly prescribed antibiotics in a teaching hospital in iran.  the results of this study may be of help for clinicians to improve the patient care. methods: patients who received parenteral ceftazidim, vancomycin and am...

this study investigated the survival of a probiotic strain of lactobacillus acidophilus (la-5) in jug cheese during storage (120 days at 6-8 °c). the jug cheese treatments were: c (control), containing commercial starter frc-65; la, containing lactobacillus acidophilus; and las, containing commercial starter and lactobacillus acidophilus. the results showed that the amount of lactobacillus acid...

background: evaluating the malaria status of the economic cooperation organization (eco) member countries relation to goal 6 of 3rd millennium development goals (mdgs) which includes have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria. methods: by 2009, we reviewed the mdgs reports, extracted the data from surveillance system, published, and unpublished data. the main stakeholders...

ôbjectivity, reliability and validity of examinations in psychiatry have always been one of the major concerns of experts in this discipline. recently, objective structured clinical examination (ôsçë) for its unique approach and by providing the requirements of psychiatric examinations has been a topic of interest. ïn ïran, an ôsçë has been replaced the individual patient assessment (ïpâ) for e...

background: pasteur institute of iran was established in 1919 with the aim to produce vaccines and prevent communicable diseases in iran. over time, their activities extended into areas of research, education and services. naturally, such a vast development begs establishment of a comprehensive management and monitoring system. with this outlook, the present study was carried out with the aim t...