BACKGROUND In recent years, family physician plan was established as the main strategy of health system in Iran, while organizational structure of the primary health care system has remained the same as thirty years ago. OBJECTIVES This study was performed to illustrate structural and contextual dimensions of organizational structure and relationship between them in Iranian primary health car...

the current curriculum for both medical and engineering students does not include any serious program for research and technology development, by which capable students can become a man of research and a man with high-tech skills as soon as possible. however, there are opportunities for several good experiences in iranian universities such as “research student clubs,” [2,3] which show that ther...

introduction. setting up “clinical skills labs” has been started in some iranian medical universities since five years ago. in an educational workshop for clinical skills labs managers in january 2001, many managers stated that if there were standards for these centers it would help them define the necessities of the center. these standards would also make the basis for internal and external ev...

In part one of this article I reviewed the history of Asclepius and the Caduceus of Hermes as medical symbols and made a tentative suggestion of using the mythical bird Simurgh as an Iranian symbol of medicine. In this, the second part, I shall describe the evolution of the myth of the Simurgh and discuss the medical relevance of this bird in Iranian history.

background and pupose: after two decades of expansion of universities of medical sciences and increasing the number of medical sciences students as one of the most attainable solutions for the problem of substandard status of iranian community health, recently, quality-based policies in medical education have taken priority over most of the national health plans. we conducted this study to dete...

islamic iran, on the horizon of the 2025 outlook document, should obtain first regional rank in economic, social, scientific, and cultural domains. country’s noticeable growth in scientific production and dynamic movement of iranian scientists and specialists in scientific frontiers resulted in the country earning first rank in regional scientific production, leaving behind turkey, in the year ...