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The protection of information means maintaining information and ensuring security for its sustainable use. The purpose of this study was to identify the experiences of the faculty members of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences regarding the protection of their personal information collection.

This research was a qualitative study which was carried out using content analysis method. The data gathering tool was a semi-structured interview. Purposive sampling was done until the data saturation level was reached (n= 21 people).

The faculty members used various tools and locations to maintain and protection their information. The four main areas of their storage were computers, external memories, virtual spaces, and traditional spaces. They also considered four components for protecting information, including: information maintain, information security, information archives and information stability.

The faculty members' experiences on how to protect and preserve their personal information were different, but most of the concern was to get lost information. Some of them lacked knowledge and awareness in the security of information, and needed training in this regard.

 Clinical specialists need to develop necessary information skills to meet their research requirements. The current study focused on the effect of educational interventions by clinical informationists on medical students’ information behavior.

 This was a semi-experimental study in which a two group  pretest–posttest design was used. The population consisted of 60 medical students (30 in the experimental and 30 in the control group at Isfahan University of Medical Sciences) who were selected through the convenience time based sequential sampling method. A researcher-made questionnaire including 19 items based on a 5-point Likert scale (very little to very high) was used to collect data which were then analyzed by SPSS using the descriptive and inferential statistics.

 The trainings offered by the clinical informationists motivated the experimental group to focus on seeking information about clinical issues. Following the intervention, the experimental group achieved significantly higher need to search for information, during and after clinical rounds, than the control group. Moreover, the use of electronic information resources and clinical databases in the experimental group was significantly higher than the control group.

Considering the importance of electronic information resources, universities of medical sciences are required to teach the use of databases, specifically as part of the medical students' curriculums and medical education programs.

Focusing on various educational, research, and clinical roles of Clinical Informaticist (CI), it is necessary to joint CIs to the clinical team as a member of patient care unit. CI can play an important role in improving medical services and community health by teaching information skills, training health information literacy to patient, and helping to search and retrieve information in research and clinical teams. It should be recommended that having such significant roles in the health care context requires CIs’ efforts to improve their skills and abilities, as well as to develop official and non-official relevant educational infrastructures in the health system of each country.

Determination of learners' education satisfaction is one of the most significant criteria for assessing the performance of health educational systems. The study was conducted to evaluate the medical students' satisfaction from clinical informationist educational program.

To conduct this study a quasi-experimental posttest design was embraced. The sample was included 30 medical students that were selected by the Convenience time based sequential sampling method. Educational intervention of clinical informationist was done for 10 days. The Clinical Informationist along with the medical student participated in the clinical round, noted the clinical questions and teaching how to search for questions. After clinical round, the Clinical Informationist held a workshop about databases every day. Data were collected by a questionnaire and analyzed by the descriptive statistics and using Excel 2016 software.

The average score of medical students' satisfaction was 4.34(±0/551) for content of program, 4.32(±0/659) for educator, 3.85(±0/470) for educational methods and 3.64(±0/872) for educational facilities. The interest of medical students was 50% very high, 40% high and 10% moderate in tendency for implementing and continuing of the educational program.

The overall medical students' satisfaction has been increased in terms of content, educator, method and facilities in the clinical informationist educational program.

The content of the mass media is a suitable tool for making changes to the society. One of the most read news in the mass media is nutritional information. The goal of this study is to assess the scientific authenticity of such information published in Iranian popular magazines.

This study is a qualitative study (content analysis) and uses bibliographic approach. A researcher‑designed checklist is used as data gathering tool, and the statistical population included the messages obtained from the printed material in 173 volumes of 8 Iranian popular magazines. 10 most frequent messages were identified, and their scientific authenticity was investigated using Pubmed and IranMedex databases. The SPSS Software version 24 (IBM Corporation, Armonk, New York, USA) was applied in the analysis of this work.

The findings indicated that preventive trends had the highest (86.8%) and the treatments had the lowest (4.2%) frequency. Concerning the type of cancer, more than half (51.2%) of the conclusions were about cancer. Regarding authorship, 68% of articles were author signed, but the profession of 66.4% of the authors was not clear. Regarding references, only 25.4% of the articles had validated references.

It is revealed that 70% of the “nutrition information” related to cancer which was published in the popular magazines during 2012, considered to be acceptable according to scientific medical information sources. Although in some cases, the amount of evidence is not sufficient. Finally, it could be deduced that the nutrition information published in the Iranian popular magazines are still credible.