Akbar Solati, Pouyan Shakouri, Fateme Padidaran Moghadam,
Volume 10, Issue 1 (3-2018)
Abstract
Introduction: This study aimed at investigating the strategies adopted by North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences medical and paramedical students in learning English medical vocabulary.
Methods: In this study, 124 students of North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences (37 males and 87 females) were asked to answer Schmitt's' (1997) questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed by the SPSS software.
Results: The analysis of the data obtained from this study revealed significant points about the students' vocabulary learning behaviors. First, most of the students used strategy No. 4, "guess meaning from textual context" to discover the meaning of the words and students found strategy number 5, "use a bilingual dictionary", as the most useful. Moreover, the strategy adopted by Iranian students to consolidate the meaning of words, i.e. "verbal repetition", had the highest percentage of usage. The most useful consolidation strategies, according to the results of this study, were "image word's meaning", "take notes in class", and "continue to study words over time".
Conclusions: The findings indicated that guessing the meaning from context and dictionary use strategies were the most popular strategies while asking the teacher for meaning was rarely used. Teachers should teach how to guess the meaning from context and to use dictionary in the class to increase vocabulary knowledge.
Ramin Haghighi, Pouyan Shakouri,
Volume 12, Issue 4 (2-2021)
Abstract
Introduction: Tyrosinemia is a congenital metabolic disease in which the breakdown of the amino acid tyrosine is reduced and its amount is increased in the body. Tyrosine metabolites can involve specific organs that according to the clinical manifestations there are three types of this disease.
Case: This article reports type 1 tyrosinemia in a 2-year-old child who complained of urinary problem and restlessness. Despite the absence of pathological findings in fetal ultrasound screening, imaging findings indicate involvement of both kidneys.
Conclusions: It is a rare, inherited and metabolic disease that despite the challenges of diagnosis has simple cure.
Salar Poorbarat, Nahid Ramezani Sani Gelyan, Amin Hoseinzadeh, Pouyan Shakouri, Ehsan Saeidi, Mehdi Haresabadi,
Volume 13, Issue 1 (6-2021)
Abstract
Introduction: Research self-efficacy can be expressed as people's judgments about their research abilities to organize and execute a series of tasks to achieve the specified research functions. Therefore, this study was conducted to evaluate students' research self-efficacy of North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences.
Methods: The present study was a cross-sectional study performed on 240 students of North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences. Students were selected by stratified random sampling. The students 'demographic information questionnaire and students' research self-efficacy questionnaire were used to collecting data. Data analysis was performed by SPSS20 software using descriptive statistics (including mean, standard deviation frequency, and percentage) and inferential statistics.
Results: According to the study results, the frequency of female students was 155 (66.8%). The mean and standard deviation of the age of students was 22.2±3.6 years. The mean and standard deviation of total self-efficacy is 151.24 ± 36.02, mean and standard deviation of statistical and analytical self-efficacy metrics 32.22 ± 10.25, self-efficacy in conceptualization 35.52 ± 8.99, self-efficacy in the method and implementation 31.41 ± 7.05, self-efficacy in qualitative research 3 12.59±4.9, reporting self-efficacy was 18.69 ± 5.76, self-efficacy in skills and proficient was 15.66 ± 3.64, and self-efficacy in ethics was 9.38 ± 2.86.
Conclusions: This study showed that research self-efficacy is moderate, and appropriate educational interventions are needed to promote it.
