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Background: Nowadays, development and influence of technology in medical information and emergence of the extensive information have provided opportunity for the development of applying evidence-based medicine as a reasonable framework for decision making in medicine and it has attracted attention due to its importance. Aim of this study was to determine awareness, attitude, ability and facilities of evidence-based medicine in medical residents
Materials and methods: In this study, 40 residents of hospitals of selected Medical Sciences Universities of Tehran were included in the study with proportional stratified random sampling in 2013. Data collection instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire including 5 parts, such as demographic specifications and four criteria of awareness, attitude, evidence-based performance and its executive facilities. Validity of questionnaire was determined through content validity and internal consistency of the questions through Cronbach's alpha of 0.71. Data were analyzed by SPSS software
Results: Awareness of residents about evidence-based medicine was medium. Physicians had negative attitude toward evidence-based medicine. Ability of evidence-based medicine was undesirable and physicians sometimes had access to facilities of evidence-based medicine
Conclusion: Results showed that residents had low awareness with evidence-based medicine. Therefore, there is need for systematic education for awareness and execution of evidence-based medicine among residents
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One of the most critical choices of students is to choose a university major. Lack of knowledge, towards the major causes a mismatch between the career prospects and their needs and expectations. Therefore, this study was conducted to determine the knowledge of Islamic Azad University, Tehran Medical Branch students to their educational major at the time of entrance to university. This descriptive study was conducted on 501 medical and non-medical fisherman students of Islamic Azad University, Tehran Medical Branch, whom were selected by relative stratified random sampling technique. Data gathering tool was a questionnaire which consisted of two sections, including demographic information and questions to measure students' knowledge. The mean and standard diversion of students' knowledge was 5.48 and 3.60, respectively. Students' knowledge was high in 30.3%, moderate in 40.5% and low in 29.1%. The study showed that the increase in educational levels directly correlate with the knowledge. This means that with an increase in educational levels, the knowledge increases. The highest rank of knowledge, based on the educational levels, was related to professional doctoral degree with mean rating of 342.17, and the least knowledge was related to the Bachelor's degree mean rate of 136.32. The findings indicated that most of students had moderate knowledge about their major at arrival to college. Therefore, it is suggested that the students have consultation about their major by schools, media, families, and in order the students know more about their majors before entering university