2Background and Aim: Hospital social workers as a group of discharge planners perform effective interventions for the safe discharge of patients. The purpose of this research was to investigate the interventions of medical social workers in safe discharge of patients. Materials and Methods: This was a qualitative study conducted in 2023 in Iran. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with a sample of 16 social workers working in public hospitals selected by purposeful, accessible and snowball sampling and analyzed using the thematic analysis method. Results: The findings of this research show that hospital social workers implement specialized interventions within a framework of six planning stages with the aim of safe patient discharge. The three main themes are: professional intelligence, supportive framework and sustainability of interventions; the main theme of the current research is safe discharge. Conclusion: The findings of this research indicate that the interventions of social workers for the safe discharge of the patients include measures before, during and after the discharge of a patient, based on the principles, values, intelligence, professional skills and the social work process. Social workers in this field need the support of responsible officials in the health system.

Background and Aims: Faculty member’s development at present and with regard to recent developments in various fields of medical education, is very important. This issue is so important various programs have been conducted in different countries. In this review article we try to identify the various aspects of empower faculty members in medical education in Iran and worldwideMaterials and Methods: In this review study, by using the key words of faculty member development, medical education, medical universities and their English equivalents, studies from 2000 to 2014 in the database, Scopus Google scholar, Pub med were searched. Finally, to analyze the different aspects of empowerment programs, related articles, studies and various aspects of the programs, were studied.Results: According to results, entries were grouped into four categories: 1) analyze the content of faculty development programs, 2) educational methods used in faculty member development programs, 3) the type of interventions used in faculty member development programs, 4) faculty development outcomes.Conclusions: Promoting empowerment programs in medical education, need to use a wide variety of content for implementation, qualitative and mixed methods studies and use of multiple and high level data sources. However, if we believe that faculty development programs, improves professional skills and qualifications of the faculty members, accordingly, using a systematic plan to evaluate the results of the program can be improved empowerment programs. As a result, faculty members and individuals involved in empowerment programs must continue to reflect the inherent weaknesses of traditional empowerment programs and at the same time, it should be noted that the faculty development is complex process and has intertwined structure.

Background & Aims: Appropriateness and Nature of clinical decisions and medical interventions in trauma management is one of the most important concepts in prehospital trauma care systems. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the nature of prehospital medical interventions delivered to traumatic patients in Tabriz.Materials & Methods: In this descriptive study, the records of all traumatic patients activated EMS and led to a prehospital mission, investigated in 2014. A six-part checklist consisted of patients’characteristics, mechanism of injury, type of trauma, level of consciousness, medical interventions, physician consult and coordination with the hospital were used for collecting data. Descriptive and inferential statistics were applied to the data by SPSS v.13 software.Results: A total of 5614 out of 37002 registered missions during a year were related to trauma injuries.Traffic accidents (72.9%) were the most common cause of trauma and blunt trauma (85.6%) were the most common type of trauma among injured patients. Although 92.46%of traumas were related to head and neck trauma and multiple trauma, the cervical collar has been merely used for 11.5 percent of them.Also, 93% of the trauma missions led to the transfer of patients to the hospital while in 99.43% of them, no coordination was done between prehospital emergency medical services and hospitals’ A& E departments.Conclusion: According to study results, despite the high percentage of trauma to the head and neck and multiple trauma, the cervical collar and long back board has been merely used for a few traumatic patients which is unacceptable and indicates the necessity of organizing prehospital trauma care courses and workshops for emergency medical technicians. Also, regarding the lack of coordination between prehospital and hospital facilities, it seems that a much more robust and organized structure is required in Iranian healthcare system.