During the past four decades, the Iranian ministry of health, in charge of education in the
fields of medical sciences, has initiated a national program to flourish medical sciences …

The Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), as its name implies,
aims to promote two main foci, education and research (1). As for the research arm, USERN …

Many medical universitiesaround the world have donestunning changes in the recent years.
Some of these changes have been performed with the support of international …

Research is the keystone in modern-day evidence-based medical practice, the importance
of which cannot be overemphasized. Many students sink into the depths of despair when …

1The general term curriculum represents “the academic content and lessons taught in a
school or educational institution or a specific course or program”. It also represents a plan …

We are living in an era in which “medical education” has widely been recognized as a
branch of science, with its own underpinning principles and theories. It is no longer assumed …

The year 2020 started with one of the most critical health threats in the 21st century; the
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which spread throughout the world and …

Research, a methodical pathway to discover facts, enunciate principles, or offer an
interpretation of the existing knowledge. Everything written in undergraduate textbooks was …

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Health professional education must connect science to society K. Srinath Reddy President …