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Background: The present value and future achievement of any organization is completely dependent on the abilities and skills of its staffs. Hospital is one of the organizations that give services and depends on knowledge human resources. The purpose of this research is the study of the characteristics of knowledge-based human forces in public hospitals of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences.
Methods: This study was a survey that was conducted in a descriptive-analytical way in public hospitals of Shiraz in 2012.The subject of study were all physicians and nurses working in public hospitals in shiraz selected by compound sampling (stratified sampling adjusted to sample size and two stage cluster sampling). Finally 124 members of the physician and nurses were selected as samples. Data was collected by questionnaire that its reliability was gained using coronbach's 0.89 alpha coefficient. To analyze the data, the spss16 software and tests of descriptive and inferential statistics such as t-test and Pearson correlation coefficient were used.
Results: In this study, there were 72% men that 50% of them have bachelor degrees .36 members were physicians and 64 members were nurses. The medical staff had features of scholars except independence, self-arousal, and creativity. There was a meaning full relationship between scholar's features and their ages (r= -0.253, p = 0.024), but there wasn't a meaning full relationship between their features with other demographical factors.
Conclusion: Physicians and nurses are as the important resources of hospitals had some features of scholars. The hospital managers should search about the reasons of the lack of scholars' features in medical staff and plan to keep and promote the present features.
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