---

Introduction: The planning and objectives of a lesson introduced by a professor at the beginning of each session is one of the most effective and important factors that help improve students' learning. Collecting of these parameters at the end of each lesson and the presenting of a summary of the next session has a significant impact on the students’ learning. Over the past few years, the importance of lesson planning has been discussed in a broad scope among educational groups of Medical Schools. The study was performed to evaluate and compare lesson planning protocols by the professors at Shiraz University and Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. Materials & Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 508 students of different departments of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (217 students) and Shiraz University (291 students). From each of these universities 5% of the students were chosen randomly and also from each department, students were selected depending on the number of students at that department. Findings:223 men (43.9%) and 285 women (56.1%) whose average age was 22 years participated in the survey. This study showed that lesson planning methods were exerted in a same manner in different terms and that no difference was observed between the two universities (P>0.05). The average of the scores given to the lesson planning in both Shiraz University of Medical Sciences and Shiraz University were 33 and 34 out of 60, respectively. Teaching aids were used more at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences than at Shiraz University. Using new scientific resources at Shiraz Medical School was good but the same thing at Shiraz University was average and their difference was statistically significant (P<0.05).The current survey showed that educational motivation in students was low, but the motivation in other aspects was good. Discussion & Conclusion: Identifying the important factors that affect learning is quite important to help remove inadequacies and solve problems in any educational system. This study revealed that the students’ level of knowledge in lesson planning was relatively low. In both mentioned universities the teaching aids were used at a low level. One advantage of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences was that their professors used teaching aids more than the professors of Shiraz University. In order to decrease the shortcomings and make students more productive and scientific in both universities, it is crucial that educational workshops to be organized for professors. In this way, we would witness a day in which both students and professors of our country are striving more to advance the frontiers of science.

---

Introduction: The center and core of every high education system are students. And students as the main driving force of the societies toward the development and prog-ress needs having computer and Internet for research purposes. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the satisfaction rate of students with computer centers at Shahr-e-Kord University of Medical Scie-nces. Materials & Methods: This study was a descriptive study in which 275 students we-re randomly chosen at the Shahr-e-kord Un-iversity of Medical Sciences. The data col-lection tool was a researcher made ques-tionnaire which its reliability was obtained by the Cronbach's alpha test of 0.88. Data was analyzed using SPSS16 and P<0.05 was considered significant. Findings: Subjects were 121(44%) female and 154 subjects(56%) male students. The mean age of the female and male students was 21.64±2.47 and 21.81±2.33 years,- respectively. The average satisfaction sco-res with the computer center of school of medicine was 48.40±22.43, with the com-puter center of the deputy of research was 49.92±19.57 and with the computer centers of dormitories was 28.90±23.25. Discussion & Conclusion: Results indicated that students' satisfaction toward the comp-uter centers of dormitories was much lower than the other centers. Since the students spend the most of their time in dormitories, resolving the shortages in these centers leads to prevent time loses by the students due to their referring to other computer cen-ters.

---

Introduction: Since nurses are regarded as the greatest group of employees offering health services, paying attention towards the role of self-confidence in improving sense of responsibility has high importance. The aim of present study is to determine the relation between self-confidence and responsibility among nurses of hospitals in Ilam medical university.

Materials & methods: Present study is a correlative- descriptive research, whose population consists of all of nurses in hospitals of Ilam medical university during 2014, among which 151 individuals were selected as the sample of study through Cochran's formula with a random sampling way. In order to collect data, standard questionnaire of Farzianpour et al (2012) and Jeremy Gilbert's responsibility evaluation (2010) were applied, whose validity was confirmed by experts and its reliability of 82/0 was determined by Cronbach's alpha. Data was analyzed through descriptive statistics and Pearson's correlation factor and regression analysis in SPSS.

Findings: Obtained findings indicated that self-confidence and its aspects (being important, competence, dominance, and virtue) have a significant relation with nurses' responsibility. Among these aspects, being important had the least relation to responsibility, while dominance and competence had a relative good relation with responsibility, and finally virtue had the most relation to responsibility.

Discussion & conclusions: Results indicate that the current study was in alignment with previous studies. Therefore, in order to improve the sense of responsibility among nurses, it is suggested that managers provide the workplace in such a way that they feel themselves as valuable and efficient to form their self-confidence and establish a professional moral field of work, so that improvement of their responsibility would be achieved.

---

Introduction: providing health care is one of the basic needs of every community for which major part of the Government's financial resources is allocated. Inadequate resources allocated to treatment part have created a significant gap between the available resources and needed resources. This issue has made it a necessity to create   resources through the use of proprietary revenues. In this context, the present study sought to identify factors affecting the uptake of dedicated revenues in Ilam University of medical sciences.
 
Materials & methods: the present research in terms of its objectives is functional in nature, and in terms of the method is descriptive and analytical. Research population is all the hospitals under the supervision of Medical University of Ilam and also its headquarters in 2014. For the sampling, relative stratified sampling methods and for data collection a researcher-made   questionnaire is used. To evaluate the reliability, the coefficient of Cronbach’s alpha was used which was 0.93. The data was analyzed using SPSS software version 19.
 
 Findings: the results suggest that the use of HIS as an advanced software, specialist staff, and detailed and accurate recording of therapeutic measures conducted in the hospital bills on the receipt of dedicated revenues has a significant impact on revenues while improving the processes and procedures for collection of receivables and remove the manual system of the receipt income (the Fund) not has not a significant impact on revenues.
 
 Discussion & conclusions: according to the findings of this research, Ilam University of medical sciences can increase its revenues by using HIS as advanced software and also by specialist staff for the detailed and accurate recording of therapeutic measures conducted in the hospital bills.

---

Introduction: Challenges of service provision systems necessitate the presence of staff with higher motivation to work more efficiently; therefore, paying close attention to job satisfaction of such staffs to enhance organizational efficiency sounds essential. This study aimed to prioritize factors affecting personnel satisfaction in hospitals of TUMS using AHP Model.
 
Materials & Methods: This was a cross-sectional study conducted in 5 hospitals affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2015. The data collection tool was a questionnaire containing demographic questions as well as nine questions on personnel satisfaction. The validity and reliability of the questionnaire were assessed, and the data was analyzed using analytic hierarchy process and Expert Choice V. 11 software.
 
Findings: According to the AHP model, rewards and compensations were the most important factors (0.262), and monitoring and supervision were of the lowest importance (0.030). Factors of Job security (0.182), job improvement (0.177), job positions (0.091), working conditions (0.075), communications among colleagues (0.063), associated with personal life (0.060), and policy management (0.035) obtained next priority. Also, rank of items in unmarried female employees were higher than that of married male employees.
 
Discussion & Conclusion: The conclusions for our investigation demonstrate that correction mechanisms in hospitals and use of leverage by offering incentives such as performance-based management can enhance motivation as well as the employees’ performances. In addition, efforts to strengthen social relationships among colleagues would lead to more satisfaction as a significant component.

---

Introduction: Health and the factors affecting it are the most important and effective components in behavior, work performance and productivity of individuals working in different organizations. Universities of medical sciences play a fundamental and functional role in health promotion, transfer of its concepts to the community, and delivery of healthcare services. This study aimed to evaluate the general health status and its effective factors among the staff of Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran.
 
Materials and Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional and analytical study was performed on 153 of staff working at two sectors of pardis and setad of Ilam University of Medical Sciences. The participants were selected using the random sampling method. General Health Questionnaire (G.H.Q-28), which contains 28 items measuring general health, was used for data collection. To analyze the data, ANOVA, Chi-square test, Spearman correlation, and independent t-test were run in SPSS, version 16.
 
Findings: The results showed that 50.3% of the studied population had health score of 0-22 (healthy group). Spearman correlation test showed a significant correlation between general health and marital status (P<0.05, r=0.164), but no significant difference was observed between the staff of the two sectors in terms of general health and its subscales (P>0.05). In addition, we did not observe a significant association between general health and variables such as age, gender, work experience, educational level, and type of employment (P>0.05).
 
Conclusion: In this study, work experience and employment type were introduced as the most effective factors on performance and general health. Additionally, the subscale of disruption in social performance was the most effective subscale on general health.

---

Introduction: Evaluation of quality of web pages from the users’ viewpoints is useful in its design and development. This study was performed to evaluate of the quality of Ilam University of Medical Sciences website from the users’ viewpoints.
 
Materials & Methods: The statistical population of this descriptive analytical study included 1300 staff of the university in 2014. Overall, 297 volunteers are selected by using Cochran’s formula and random sampling method. Data collection was performed with the WebQual checklist. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (one-sample t-test) were used in SPSS, version 16.
Findings: According to the findings, the mean scores of benefit, ease of use, attractiveness, and interactiveness were 3.35, 3.79, 3.26, and 3.36, respectively, which are significantly different from 3 considered as the benchmark.
 
Discussion & Conclusions: The results showed that Ilam University of Medical Sciences website is in a good condition with respect to benefit, easy to use, attractiveness, and interaction. However, website administrators can further enhance the quality of the website in all these dimensions.

---

Introduction: The importance of research and knowledge production is critical worldwide. Therefore, the number of researchers and published articles as well as the volume of investment in research is considered the indicators of development in any country. Accordingly, the most important factor in the progress and prosperity of research is to recognize the challenges and barriers. Various studies have been carried out at the Universities of Medical Sciences in order to identify the barriers to knowledge production regarding the stakeholders’ viewpoints. Therefore, this study aimed to identify barriers to knowledge production from the viewpoint of faculty members, research experts, and students in Iran.
 
Materials & Methods: This systematic review was conducted utilizing the articles and documents on Iranian web sites (i.e., Magiran, Iran medex, SID, and Medlib) as well as foreign databases (i.e., Google scholar, PubMed, and Scopus) without any time limit. Moreover, the keywords in the titles of articles were employed in the search process.
 
Findings: Totally, 16 articles and one documentary were identified in the search process. Out of all, 13 and 3 articles compared the viewpoints of faculty members and the views of faculty members with research experts, respectively. According to faculty members’ viewpoints lack of time due to heavy workload, policies to encourage researchers, adequate funding, appropriate promotion system for faculty members, and human resource shortages were the main research barriers in medical sciences. On the other hand, the research experts indicated the lack of teamwork culture and existence of defects in goals and programs as the most important challenges in research implementation. Moreover, lack of research priorities, motivation for research, cooperation with researchers, and adequate funding were the main obstacles in viewpoints of students.
 
Discussion & Conclusions: According to the results, the faculty members share same viewpoints regarding research barriers despite the variety in locations geographically and diversity in data collection tools. Generally, lack of research funding was considered as the main research barrier. Moreover, the complexity in research approval processes ranked the second main challenge confronting the researchers in the field of medical sciences.

---

Introduction: Evaluation of scientific production plays an important role in planning for the promotion of scientific research centers. This study evaluated the status of scientific products of Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran, quantitatively and qualitatively from 2001 to 2018 in the Scopus Citation Database.
 
Materials & Methods: Quantitative indicators, such as the H-index (Hirsch index), and the number of citations to the documents indexed in the mentioned database were utilized to review the indexed medical records of Ilam University of Medical Sciences from 2001 to 2018. It should be noted that the data were collected from Scopus. ISID-indexed articles were also used in this study.

Findings: In total, 1328 articles were submitted during the study period. The highest and lowest rates of submission were observed in 2018 (n=237; 17%) as well as 2002 and 2001 (11.1%), respectively. The Hirsch index number during these years (2001-2018) was 34. Scientific products were related to the fields of "medicine", "biochemistry, genetics, and biology" and "pharmacology" in descending order. Moreover, the medical field obtained the most citation (76%). The highest levels of domestic and foreign participation were with Tehran and Shahid Beheshti Universities of Medical Sciences, as well as academic centers of Malaysia and England, respectively. Furthermore, 88% of the products of this university were of the original type.

Discussions & Conclusions: This study revealed a growing trend in the process of scientific production at Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran. Furthermore, the results of this study showed that from 2013 to 2016, with an increase of 13% to 23%, the number of scientific production was significantly higher, compared to previous years.
 

---

Introduction: Policy making is one of the main and fundamental issues in the management of institutions and organizations which necessitates attention to its process and components. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the relationship between policy-making and university autonomy in macro medical universities of region 3.
Material & Methods: The present applied study was conducted with an integrated approach (qualitative and quantitative) in Ilam province of Iran, in 2021. The statistical population in the qualitative part consisted of the professors of macro medical universities in region 1 among whom 15 individuals were selected for designing the policy-making and university autonomy questionnaires using the purposive sampling method, considering the saturation law. In the quantitative part, 320 subjects were selected using a stratified random sampling method from managers and deputies of departments, faculties, department heads, and faculty members of macro medical universities in the health sector of region 3 to examine the relationship between variables. In the qualitative part, the questionnaires were designed and finalized through the Delphi method in two rounds, the experts’ opinions obtained through semi-structured 70-min interviews, and the review of topics and study of theoretical foundations. In the quantitative section, a researcher-made questionnaire on university policy-making and university autonomy was used for data collection. The SPSS and PLS software were used to analyze the data through confirmatory factor analysis and structural equations.
(Ethic code: 2084838744062451398162299017)
Findings: The results showed that among the various dimensions of policy-making, the component of “university structure” had the greatest impact with R2=0.927, and among the components of university independence, leadership independence had the most impact with R2=0.942 and path coefficient=0.971.
Discussion & Conclusion: Based on the path coefficients, a factor load of 0.644 was established between the two variables of policy-making and university autonomy which was above average and, therefore, significant. Moreover, since the t-statistic value of 16.247 was established out of the
(-2.58, 2.58) range, it can be concluded that the relationship between policy-making and university autonomy in macro medical universities in region 3 was positive and meaningful.