Background and objective:Medicine is a combination of health and healingthat includes diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease and many other aspects of health. Despite the fact that many improvements have been made in medical education, medical schools continue to face many problems in facing the community, patients, doctors And students who are not compatible with the s...

introduction: research has asserted mcq items using three response options (one correct answer with two distractors) is comparable to, and possibly preferable over, traditional mcq item formats consisting of four response options (e.g., one correct answer with three distractors), or five response options (e.g., one correct answer with four distractors). some medical educators have also adopted ...

quality of clinical education for medical students has always been a concern in academic medicine. this concern has increased in today’s time-squeeze while faculty members have to fulfill their complementary roles as a teacher, researcher, and practitioner. one of the strategies for program evaluation is obtaining trainees’ feedbacks since they are the main customers of educational programs; ho...

this article elaborates on the experience of higher medical education evaluation in iran. although institutional evaluation in iran started in about a decade ago, recent policies of the government to increase quality of higher medical education have contributed to a special effort in designing and implementing evaluation mechanisms in university systems in iran. among these a process of interna...

background     method.     results.     conclusion     edical education , e valuation , a ccreditation , s tandardization . regarding the importance of quality improvement in medical education, it is expected that even if this process would not lead to international accreditation acquisition, it will result in improvement and essential changes in basic medical education. keyword: m   having pri...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of high-fidelity simulation for teaching root cause analysis (RCA) in graduate medical education. METHODS Thirty clinical anesthesiology-1 through clinical anesthesiology-3 residents were randomly assigned to 2 groups: group A participants received a 10-minute lecture on RCA and participated in a simulation exercise where a med...

Competency-based education has become central to the training and assessment of post-graduate medical trainees or residents [1]. In competency-based education, there is a strong focus on outcomes and professional performance. Typically, holistic tasks are used to train, practice and assess the defined outcomes or competencies. In residency training, these tasks are part of the day-to-day clinic...

introduction: despite the importance of curriculum analysis for internal refinement of a programme, the approach for such a step in under-described in the literature. this article describes the analysis of the medical curriculum at the faculty of medicine, university of gezira (fmug). this analysis is crucial in the era of innovative medical education since introducing new curricula and curricu...

Participants of the second colloquium of the Residency Review and Redesign in Pediatrics (R(3)P) Project considered 3 primary questions: What is a "good doctor"? How do we make one? and How do we know when we have made one? Experts from other countries and other medical specialties helped participants wrestle with these most basic questions. Participants emerged with a better feeling of the uti...

purpose: present study is to evaluate the effect of the urinary stone continuing medical education program of gps' knowledge, attitude and performance in real situation. material & method: 80 gps, 19 female and 61 male, 43.2+/-12.5 years old, 14.5 +/-11.9 years after graduation, who work in private practice in tehran, participated in the study. they participated in two-day conference run by lec...