background: changes in expectations and requirements of the end users of medical education “community members” and evolution in health services necessitate some changes in the medical education curriculum. to achieve this reform in curricula, obtaining insight into the health care needs of community members and their comments about their physicians is highly required in community-oriented educa...

abstract background and objectives: study of clinical competence in nursing helps determine the quality of health care delivered to patients. given the priority of observance of principles over caretaking and necessity of spirituality existence at the core of health care provision, this study was conducted to investigate clinical competence and its relationship with professional ethics and spir...

background: the key challenge is how to encourage and retain health professionals in their work location. there is a list of policy options for the purpose but applying an appropriate and effective set of strategies requires a country level research. our study aimed to identify retention strategies for neurosurgeons and examine both the importance and feasibility of the identified strategies us...

Healthcare consumers often have difficulty expressing and understanding medical concepts. The goal of this study is to identify and characterize medical expressions or "terms" (linguistic forms and associated concepts) used by consumers and health mediators. In particular, these terms were characterized according to the degree to which they mapped to professional medical vocabularies. Lay parti...

objective: the aim of this paper is to investigate whether the combination of paid employment promotes or challenges the quality of life of married employed and unemployed women in iran. method: the samples consisted of 250 married employed women (175 professionals and 75 non-professionals) and 250 married unemployed. stratified convenience sampling technique was used for the selection of the s...

background: infants are the most vulnerable people with special needs in natural disasters. since midwives are responsible for providing reproductive health services to infants in disastrous situations, assessing their professional competence is of great importance. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted in tehran, iran. a total of 361 midwives were selected by cluster ...

Introduction: Emotional intelligence is a social skill thatcontrols stress and affects one’s ability to cope with the demandsand environmental pressures; it so can improve professionalcompetence in health care providers such as nursing students.Training on emotional intelligence increases the mental healthand influences the mutual relationships, stress, depression ...

abstract background: professional development is reiterated in the new definition of modern organizations as a serious undertaking of organizations. this article aims to present and describe a prescriptive model to increase the quality of professional development of iranian nurses within an organization‑based framework. materials and methods: this article is an outcome of the results of a study...