introduction: the main goal of accounting systems and financial reporting of public sector is to provide the qualified information that can assist managers in performing their responsibility effectively. it can also assist them in making appropriate political, economic, and social decisions. method: this study evaluated the managers’ attitudes towards the quality of financial reports. forty nin...

INTRODUCTION Professional behavior is first learned at the university. One of the necessary considerations in maintaining the professional environment of the university is establishing a set of codes for the behavior of physicians and medical students. This paper describes the process of developing the professional code of conduct in Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. METHOD...

Iran universities of medical sciences have experienced a period of expansion in past decades. Now previous concerns are alleviated, and the former quantity-based policy has given a way to a more quality-seeking attitude. In this study, we developed a planning model for expansion and stagnation of higher education in Iranian universities of medical sciences based on workforce requirements of the...

BACKGROUND To explore the trend and composition of post-graduate Iranian students who received governmental scholarship during the last two decades. METHOD Detailed information about the awarded scholarships and also about the number of post graduate students in clinical and basic sciences in domestic universities were collected from the related offices within the ministry of health and medic...

In the previous editorial, [1] we explained the necessity of transition from interdisciplinary researches to interdisciplinary technologies in Iran. Now, we wish to explain about one of the major opportunities in Iran that can help us to expedite this transition. According to the current procedure of student’s admission for Iranian universities, there is a highly competitive race among students...

The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of a webometric analysis of web sites of medical universities of Iran. This study was conducted in Sept 2012 using Majestic SEO, Google, Yahoo and Bing search engines. The number of web pages, external inlinks, rich files and the total rank for 43 universities with active exclusive web sites were calculated. Findings indicated that Tehran Uni...

Introduction: Iran, as one of the earthquake-prone countries in the world, due to its geographical scope and existing shortcomings, always faces serious challenges in providing medical services to the victims by medical universities. This study aimed to achieve a model of community-based readiness of Iranian universities of medical sciences to provide health services to earthquake victims. Met...

BACKGROUND The journal impact factor is increasingly employed to evaluate the quality of scientific research. This is in contrary to its critical limitations, e.g., its marked variation across scientific disciplines. This study was conducted to describe, in both quantitative and qualitative terms, the contribution of Iranian universities and research institutes to biomedical publications in 200...