Participation of students in medical research would increase the quality and quantity of research in a durable manner. Research training is one of the most important components of medical education, as the American Association of Medical Colleges recommends that medical students can develop their problem-solving skills by participating in research projects…

In the recent years, we observe various scientific conferences that held by Universities, Institutes and also by some companies. The main aim of all of these conferences is providing a scientific network between researchers with famous companies and the process of knowledge exchange (1, 2). These knowledge exchanges will help the researchers and students to be at a scientific environment and this will promote their vision. Among these conferences, National and International Research Student Congresses are big opportunities for medical students to familiar with scientific meetings (2). By participating at a conference, students can gain soft-skills that will be valuable at every level of their academic life. A medical student can participate in the meeting by various ways: only participating in the meeting and participating in the meeting and presenting him/her work. If a person has a work that is acceptable for the meeting, he/she is able to present the work as a lecture or a poster. Both of these presentation models will be full of new experience for him/her. When the student participate in the conference by a lecture, it is very appropriate to visit his/her supervisor. Surely these visits help the student for better presenting of his/her work. Students will learn that have a lecture in different place than their university or clinic and this will open a new window in their academic life. If the work will present in the conference as poster, students must prepare a visual representation of their work and present the summary of their findings clearly to other attendees. Surely in poster-making process, students learn to how they should present the data and how they should write a scientific work with details. In these scientific environments, students will connect with the scientific community. This participation can help students to familiar with the other projects that are currently in process by the other students and institutions. We always recommend our students identify their interested meetings and participate in them for increasing their first-hand knowledge As we know, our knowledge is the results of cooperative efforts and in this way conferences will allow us and our students to have a chance for exploring the known and unknown fields, other than we traditional learn in university.

Introduction: Spillways are important hydraulic structures that are constructed to release flood discharge in the dam reservoirs. Spillways must have sufficient capacity, efficiency and safety in the passage of floods, and in addition it must have economic justification. One of the effective and economical solutions to increase the discharge capacity within a certain width of the spillways is to use labyrinth spillways. In most cases, it is observed that it is not possible to increase the length of the spillway due to the site conditions. In this case, using a labyrinth spillway to increase the length of the crest can be a good solution. As the result, it increases the efficiency and discharge capacity. In equal congress type of spillway, the overlap of the falling flows and the resulting compression of the flow during the spillway, reduces the efficiency and discharge coefficient. In this study, the reduction of falling flows interference, and the congressional spillways with the length of unequal congresses have been studied and compared. Methodology: In this study, the labyrinth spillways with the length of unequal congresses in two types A and B in the flume of the hydraulic laboratory of Bu Ali Sina University have been investigated. All models includes of 5 cycles. The effective length of heights are equal to 336 cm and 10 cm, respectively. Thus, the effect of these two parameters on all models are the same. In this research, two type of congress weirs have been considered. The first type (A) consists of 5 congressional weirs with different congress lengths, so that the closer we get to the center of the weir, the length of congress increases, and the second type (B) consists of 5 congressional weirs with different congress lengths. So, the closer we get to the center of the weir, the length of congress decreases, and the longest congress in this type is the first and last congress. To measure the water depth a point depth gauge with an accuracy of 0. 1 mm has been used. To conduct this research, 10 laboratory models of labyrinth weirs with different congress lengths and one laboratory model of labyrinth weir with the equal length of congresses have been constructed for comparison with other models. In each type, the flow rate and water depth on the labyrinth crest were carefully monitored. This operation was repeated 3 times for each type to minimize the errors caused by the test and the average data of each type was used for analysis. Results and Discussion: The results of this study in all labyrinth spillways with unequal congress lengths, show that by increasing the Ht/P ratio, the value of C decreases and in each weir for the lowest value of Ht/P has the highest discharge coefficient or C and with the beginning of falling flows and their interference and subsequent submergence, the overflow discharge coefficient is drastically reduced. This reduction occurs with greater intensity for labyrinth weirs with unequal congress lengths than for labyrinth weir with equal congress lengths. It was found that, the discharge coefficients of the labyrinth weirs with different congress lengths in high discharges are not much different from each other and shows the same performance. According to the results of this study, in general, the efficiency and discharge coefficient of the spillways of congresses of type A is better than type B. It is also observed that the discharge coefficient of labyrinth weirs with different congresses lengths in high discharges are not much different from each other and show the same performance. Conclusions: The results show that if the total length of that part of the congresses which is higher than the adjacent congress and there is no flow in front of it reaches 25% of the total effective length, it will increase the efficiency and improve the discharge coefficient. If it is more than 25%, the spillway efficiency will be reduced and the discharge coefficient will fall. Also, in the best type in this research, the discharge coefficient in the spillways of unequal congresses has increased by 40. 7% compared to equal congresses.

Dear Editor, Scientific congresses and conferences are held to present the latest specialized scientific achievements. Thematic analysis of the content presented at these congresses somewhat reflects the trends of scientific progress in a specific field according to the needs and facilities. Dermatology includes extensive specialized branches such as immunology, oncology, surgery, pathology, and aesthetics. According to the studies presented at the International Investigative Dermatology meetings held from 2010 to 2019, a broad range of topics have been explored, and the diversity of submissions has risen 1...

Introduction: Quality assessment of conferences and congresses and their performance seems inevitable due to the status and problems of holding them. Therefore, the aim of this study was the situational analysis of conferences and congresses held in Tabriz University of Medical Sciences during the years 2005-2010.Methods: In this descriptive study, five checklists were designed through literature review and panel meetings of experts to assess the quality and performance of conferences and congresses held in the University during the years 2005-2010. There were a total of 40 questions in the checklists extracted from the interviews of the responsible bodies. The data were analyzed using SPSS 19.Results: There were no statutory duties assigned to any of the committees. No indicator was used for selecting committee members. None of the conferences had been recalled at least a year prior. The university priorities had no role in organizing the conferences. Evaluation results were not available, and the conferences had very poor performance.Conclusion: Regarding the results of this study and the importance and costs of the scientific meetings, it is necessary to revise planning, poll-making and regular evaluation of these meetings to overcome weaknesses and improve the quality of the conferences and congress in the Tabriz University of Medical Sciences.

Neuromuscular disorders constitute a significant proportion of neurologic complaints. However, it has not been very long since they came into focus in Iran. The first specialized meeting on muscle and nerve disorders was held in Isfahan, 2010. The second gathering took place soon after in Tehran 2011 as a joint program with French experts. 1 Kerman was the third place to contribute to neuromuscular disorders education by holding the first myology winter school in 2015. . . .

Introduction: Nowadays we face with the globalization and increasing development of communication in all aspects. As a result, researchers and specialists should proceed to more communication and scientific collaboration and co- authorship, because a specialist can hardly overcome all problems in research process. The main object of this paper is to identify collaboration rate among researchers in IUMS medical and paramedical national seminars.Methods: In this survey, scientometric methods were used. Statistical population was all articles that attended IUMS medical and paramedical national seminars during 2003-7. The number of articles was 1751 and researchers were 3697 ones. Data gathered via two checklists (planning by specialists) which validity was approved by experts of Library and Information field and analyzed in a excel database.Results: Greatest number of titles of articles (522 titles) with 1350 authors and mean number of 2.59 authors per article were observed in 2003. Minimum number of titles of articles (209 titles) with 474 authors and mean number of 2.27 authors per article were observed in 2006. Mean of authors per article was 2.11. "Reza Eshaghi" with 13, "Giti Sadegheyan" and "Hossein Hejazi" with 12 and "Ehsan Habibi" with 11 articles were the most proliferated authors among researchers who attended to mentioned seminar during 2003-7. The mean of collaboration rate among researchers in this study was 0.22.Conclusion: Spirit of cooperation among the groups of authors was low, so, identifying the activist majors and researchers can help others to get familiar with them and utilize their experience through scientific collaboration.

The 4th Iranian International Headache Congress was held in Tehran, Iran, from September 16 to 18, 2015. The congress was supported by Iranian Neurological Association under the auspicious of International Headache Society.340 physicians and researchers participated in the congress among them Professor A. Rapoport, Professor R. Cowan, Professor H. Bolay, Dr. F. Maniyar, and Dr. H.Ansari were the international guests.

The rising concerns for future health burden of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in global scale has continuously encouraged preventing measures particularly public awareness programs. There is an increasing necessity for allocating HCV awareness issues in public scope, especially for high risk populations and patients. Proper knowledge of health care professionals and treating physicians and their attitude with regard to hepatitis C management is also crucial. Achieving this can be a constructive step forward in controlling and hopefully eradicating hepatitis C virus in our community. Having a clear scientific grasp on treatment options and protocols, the concept of “CURE” achievement in hepatitis C and the future hopes in enhancing virological response with the coming direct antiviral agents can significantly add to the current practices of treating hepatitis C. This scientific report paper outlines the insights communicated at the HCV symposium during the 4th Tehran Hepatitis Congress, November 2011, Tehran, Iran.

Background & Aim: One of the most important ways of scientific promotion of congresses is to evaluate abstract of articles and getting feedback from them. This study aimed to evaluate abstract of articles presented in the nursing and midwifery congresses during 2010-2015 from different aspects.Methods: This is a descriptive/cross-sectional study which conducted on all abstracts presented in Nursing and Midwifery Congresses during 2010-2015. Data were studied through two tools including a standard tool of structural evaluation of abstracts for clinical trials, case study and review studies and also a checklist for conformity of abstracts with announced axis of each congress.Results: Among 812 abstracts examined in the study, 87% of them were clinical trials and the rest were case study and review articles. 98% of the abstracts of congresses held in the last two years were consistent with the guidelines. In 79 percent of the case study abstracts, the time of the study was unclear and in 82% of clinical trials, the number of missing samples was not mentioned. Limitations of the study and suggestions for further researches were not mentioned in 98% of the abstracts.Conclusion: The findings of this study showed that although structure of abstracts in Nursing and Midwifery congresses in recent years is closed to the standard structure, there is still lot of problems regarding the scientific writing of abstracts which required further attention of authorities of Nursing and Midwifery Congresses to the standard and international structure of scientific writing of abstracts.