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The study aimed to design, implement, and evaluate the process of advisor and teaching assistant (TA) to increase the quality of cascade training in principal educational groups, presenting the obstacles and problems of this educational intervention and introducing them to educational planners.

This applied developmental research was conducted in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in 2017-2018 in principal educational groups (internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, gynecology, and cardiology). For this purpose, a working party called TAs was composed of managers, faculty members, and active and interested assistants, including 24 people. The action plan, bylaws, job description, and logbooks were completed by the method of the focus group. Getting the report, monitoring the activity, exchanging the ideas, and drawing up the various plans were continuously done through bi-monthly in-person meetings, and the virtual group was organized for monitoring, starting a training logbook, and doing semi-organized interviews to evaluate.

In a total of 1131 h, various educational activities were conducted such as cooperating with the advisor, teaching some part of a class, holding a workshop, contributing to question design, preparing the educational resources, and organizing an educational round.

Improving the knowledge, attitude, and practice of assistants in cascade training, regulating their activities, learning the teaching skills, and exercising them with the teacher were some of the most significant opportunities of this study.

Improving the knowledge, attitude, and practice of assistants in cascade training, regulating their activities, learning the teaching skills, and exercising them with the teacher were some of the most significant opportunities of this study.

Today, the quality of health services is considered to be providing “error-free” services, at the right time, by the right person and with the least resources. In recent years, education through evidence-based care has been emphasized by health system policymakers as a way to improve care standards. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to teach clinical error management to midwifery students in Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences in Yazd.

The present study was performed using consensus-based methods based on Delphi technique to identify the most common errors and the best educational solution for its management with the participation of 21 midwives by purposive sampling method in Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences in Yazd in 2018. The rate of agreement was 75% or more. Rhosin supplier Descriptive statistical methods and SPSS-18 software were used for analysis.

The most important errors mentioned were as follows In the field of hospital care, it was the scope of care during labor and in clinicaildbirth as the most errors of midwifery students in the field of hospital and clinical care was agreed on. Therefore, considering this issue and the importance of preventing errors to provide quality services to mothers and infants, it seems that it is time to make changes in clinical education in this field by emphasizing the use of active educational methods.Identifying the learners’ problems is important. Besides, many factors are associated with academic failure, among which time management and stress are more important than any others based on evidence. By using a systematic review and meta-analysis, this study aims to synthesize the findings of studies about the correlation of time management and stress with academic failure to suggest a more in-depth insight into the effect of these two factors on academic failure. Four databases were searched from the inception of January 2018. Publication bias was evaluated visually using funnel plots and sized up by Egger’s test. Ninety-four articles were found to be qualified for inclusion after full-text review and additional manual reference made. Of these, 8 were studies of educational interventions that were reviewed in this paper. Regarding the relation of stress and academic performance, the Funnel plot (results not shown) and Egger’s test showed no publication bias in the studies (P = 0.719). Based on this result, the estimated pooled correlation (reverted by hyperbolic tangent transformation) between stress and academic performance was found to be -0.32 (95% confidence interval -0.38–0.25). In conclusion, the review recognized a series of potentially mutable medium-to-large correlates of academic achievement, time management, and stress. It would be essential to have experimental data on how easily such self-regulatory capacities can be altered, and these interventions could help students enhance their potential, providing empirical tests for offered process models of academic achievement.In December 2019, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) became evident in Wuhan, China, and then spread rapidly worldwide. Numerous drugs and vaccines are under clinical trial pipeline for investigation against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection. The aim of this systematic review was to discuss about investigational new as well as repurposed drugs currently under trial for COVID-19 infection. An exhaustive search was carried out for this review article including scientific databases of PubMed, Embase, ClinicalTrials.gov, WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform, Web of Science, ScienceDirect, ProQuest, Google Scholar, and Scopus search engines using keywords of “Coronavirus,” “COVID-19,” “MERS-CoV,” “MERS,” “SARS-CoV-2,” and “SARS-CoV-1” and “Solidarity trial” and their Persian-equivalent keywords from inception until May 2020. After screening the 296 articles searched from different databases (PubMed = 97 and other search engines = 199), 52 articles were included in the final systematic review. It was found that the World Health Organization introduced a Solidarity international clinical trial to discover an effectual treatment of COVID-19. Based on established in vitro and in vivo activity against different strains of coronaviruses, four repurposed drugs – remdesivir, lopinavir/ ritonavir combination, lopinavir/ritonavir with beta-1a, chloroquine, and hydroxychloroquine – were considered for clinical trial against COVID-19. A number of other drugs and vaccines are under clinical trial pipeline for investigation against COVID-19 infection. Despite multitude of treatment options available, treatment of choice is still not well established. Moreover, optimum supportive care and monitoring of seriously ill patients is the need of the hour.