background: in order to check the practicality of classification of universities of medical sciences (umss) based on their infrastructures, and scientific contributions, this study explored the most appropriate indicators to measure the size and productivity of umss. methods: in the first phase, we approached a group of experts who had a deep experience in the management of umss and in the mini...

introduction: medical libraries and information centers, as service organizations, need standard tools and methods to be able to measure and increase quality of their services, so as to be able to meet the needs of their users in support of the improvement of the performance of their parent institutions. methods: one of the available standard tools of quality measurement is the european foundat...

IRANIAN PATIENT RIGHT CHARTER FROM THE MEDICAL INFORMATION SCIENCE PERSPECTIVE: A QUALITATIVE STUDY Soraya Samadi, Vahideh Zarea Gavgani. Faculty member and head Department of Library and Information Science, Institute of Nabi Akram(SW), Tabriz, Iran; Associate Professor of Medical Library & Information Science, Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Management; Department of Medical Library & ...

Morteza Arab-Zozani, Zahra Vahdatimanesh, Edris Kakemam, Mobin Sokhanvar, Djavad Ghoddosineghad, Edris Hasanpoor. Ph. D. Student of Health Policy, Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Management, School of management and medical informatics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran ; MSc of Health Economics, Performance Monitoring and Budgeting Center, Hamedan university of Medical...

The first experience of remote education in Iran was started in 1970 by the Open University of Iran. In 1991, an e-learning site in Tehran University provided nine courses for students for the first time. Currently, the majority of Iran’s universities offer these courses. To benefit more from modern facilities and technology, recently some universities have attempted to use Mobile Learning (MLe...

BACKGROUND First experiences of tobacco use usually occur in adolescence. The recognition of social norms leading to youth smoking is hence necessary. We tried to assess the social norms among Iranian young cigarette and hookah smokers. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted on 451 girls and 361 boys aging 20-25 years old who entered Isfahan and Kashan Universities (Iran) in 2007. D...

introduction: academic libraries are famous to be the hearts of universities, with the ever increasing importance of the evaluation of information technologies in academic centers, and libraries need to evaluate their status to accord with these conditions. the aim of this research is to provide an evaluation relating to the conditions of tabriz university of medical science libraries, and coll...