Research and Development in Medical Education
Volume:1 Issue: 1, 2012

Best Evidence Medical Education (BEME) is defined as: “The implementation by teachers and educational bodies in their practice, of methods and approaches to education based on the best evidence available.” Five steps have been recognized in the practice of BEME. These are: framing the question, developing a search strategy, evaluating the evidence, implementing change and evaluating that change. In this paper, I described the concept of BEME, its steps, and challenges.

the method and way of learning and teaching are effective in acquiring clinical skills, and identifying the shortcomings of learning and teaching will lead to better planning. The purpose of this study was to explain the experiences of the learning clinical procedures of the internal medicine residents in gastroenterology department. qualitative study using content thematic analysis was done. Six fourth-year residents were selected and interviewed considering purposive sampling. The data of the interviews were transcribed and analyzed after rereading. the collected data are divided into three categories: learning and experience with the following four categories (learning time and experiencing, leaning and experiencing times, learning and experiencing opportunities), training and the lack of the training of some procedures. These categories are explained by using some quotes derived from the data. the results of this study suggest that the administrative management of internal residency is poor and should get seriously in implementation and application of intended instructions existing in the prepared program of Medical Education and Specialized Council of internal residency period. The attending physicians and residents must be aware of the content of education program at the beginning of the residency periods and the trainers must try to supervise the residents’ education.

Morning report is one of the most important corner stones of medical train-ing and education in internal medicine training program. However, the pattern and exact template is not definitely described. Studying the quality of morning report courses helps to find out the weak and power points of the courses. The aim of this research is to study the quality of morning report courses prospectively with the assistance of the academic members, residents, and the students in the Department of Infectious Diseases at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences in 2010, Tabriz, Iran. In this cross-sectional study, the comments of the academic members, residents, and the students in the Infec-tious diseases course who attended to the morning report course meetings were collected utilizing two separate questionnaires about the goals of the classes. The mean spending time for morning report classes was 60±20 minutes. 68.2% of participants were satisfied because of the acceptable discipline of the meetings. 57.85% of sessions were run by off call attendants. 95.2% of the reports were according to charts in the absence of the patients. In 47.1% of courses, the class management was teacher-centered. The ethical and social issues in 95.1% of cases have been observed. The evaluation of classes was gener-ally good. Although in this study the evaluation of meetings were generally good, it seems that the goals and the planning of the meetings should be revised.

much effort was conducted to support the use of electronic record systems in nursing process. Some of the most important reasons for its application are efficiency, security and the quality of the patients’ data registration. The purpose of this study is to present electronic registration software of patients, health assessment and to determine the attitude of nurses towards it. this is a R&D leading to construction of the patient’s health assessment software. In the beginning, Gordon Model and the daily charts of the patients were prepared to paper. During the next 8 months these charts were converted into the software programs. The databases were implemented using “the SQL server” and “C#Net” programming language. the software used in this study included 4 parts; the first one contained information of Gordon health assessment model in 11 items, the second contained charts of the study, the third part consisted of Lund-Browder table and dummy data table for 4 age groups, and the fourth one was image infor-mation storage part for burn wounds pictures. despite barriers, electronic systems could lead to confidential information, increase the quality of nursing records, and also reduce the amount of expenses.

Modification in medicine and medical education has led to the use of new teaching methods and learning-based tendency in education. Continuing medical education, as an indispensable part of a physician’s life, is one of the best fields of medical education that can use electronic learning. Regarding the increasing development of these programs, this study aims to examine the satisfaction of the participant with the program. This descriptive, cross-sectional study includes 50 participants. A questionnaireincluding questions about personal characteristics and satisfaction of the participants withthe program was distributed. The gathered data was analyzed by SPSS. Reliability of scaleby Cronbach’s alpha was 0.90. Using Friedman test the highest score was for the clarity of educational objectives, advantage of electronic programs and satisfaction with registration method and the cost and the lowest one was that of the cost compared to classroom programs. No significant difference between men and women satisfaction level was observed (p=0.265). There was significant correlation between satisfaction and degree of study (p=0.038). Based on the results of the study the participant were satisfied with the program. If there is a well designed e-learning program, it will motivate the learners to be active participants.

while internet and web could bridge over time and place barriers of educa-tion, some websites developed educational programs in different fields. The nation-wide Darsnameh e-Learning System is one of the accepted and popular services basically for ICT education and other miscellaneous topics. Here, we try to collect the characteristics of this system to assess the feasibility of its adaptation for medical education. we considered five aspects (infrastructure, registration, content, timing, and user) and two criteria (user-friendliness and reliability) to assess the adaptation of Darsnameh model for medical education. Assessment team consisted of a software engineer, a medical librarian, and a medical education expert each of them voluntarily and optionally registered in one of the Darsnameh courses and finished it. Passing each course took 43 days on average. Three two-hour meetings were held to assess the system in group discussions. All discus-sions were recorded and their contents were analyzed to form the assessment concepts and categories. To determine adoptability of the system for medical education, scores of 0-7 was considered. in Categories of infrastructure, registration, content, timing, and users were scored 6, 2, 6, 4, and 4 respectively. Also, user-friendliness and reliability criteria were scored 6 and 1. Except reliability criteria, other characteristics were consi-dered as adoptable for medical education. But reliability of the registration information, content, exam results, course certification, and affiliation of developers remained unreliable. implementation of e-learning for medical education through email could be considered as a new developmental approach, however because of limitations of current study, it should be evaluated for a large number of subjects such as general practitioners.