نشریه آموزش پزشکی
سال ششم شماره 2 (بهار و تابستان 1397)

Doing and writing the qualified thesis could be considered as the onset of the research proceeding and formation of academic identity of students. The purpose of this study was to investigate the properties of general medicine thesis at Kermanshah University of medical sciences during 5 years periods (2009-2013).
In this descriptive-analytic (cross-sectional) study, a comprehensive information form was prepared according to previous data. In addition, the contents of all general medicine theses during 2009-2013 (241 cases) were gathered and coded from university library and archive of research center. Data were statistically analyzed using SPSS16 program.
FINDINGS: From 241 theses, 204 volumes (84.65%) were related to clinical departments. and 37 cases (15.35%) related to basic departments, and their difference were significant (p=0.000), also difference between clinical departments were significant (p In spite of the extensive emphasis from educational and research politicians, there is no enough attention to the theses of general medicine courses

One of the effective teaching strategies is the educational needs assessment. Need assessment is an important tool in designing, developing and evaluating continuous education programs. This study aimed to determine the educational needs of family physicians and health care providers working in Fars and Mazandaran provinces.
This cross-sectional study was conducted in the winter 2016 on urban family physicians and health care providers who were selected by systematic random sampling. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire consisting of 2 parts: individual variables (8 open and closed questions) and 50 subjects for physicians and 47 subjects for health care providers; its validity and reliability were confirmed.
FINDINGS: Among 464 participants, 236 (50.9%) were physicians and 228 (49.1%) health care providers; 304 (65.5%) were female and the rest were male. Among the physicians, 26 (11.11%) did not require any training, and the rest declared at least one up to a maximum of 24 subjects as educational needs. The average number of subjects required training was 7.1±4.9. Among health care providers, 16 (7.0%) did not require any training, and 24 (10.5%) referred to the total 47 subjects as educational needs. The average number of required subjects was 24.16±16.6. There was a significant relationship between educational needs and some of the individual and social variables (P This study showed that the educational needs of physicians are low and health care providers are high

Establishing a two-way communication between the doctor and the patient will lead to accurate data collection, proper diagnosis, treatment and adherence to treatment. Communication skills require training. Teaching this skill at the patient's bedside is confronted with challenges. Busy hospitals, inadequate time, patient conditions and lack of knowledge of clinical professors, take the golden opportunity of education from students. The purpose of this study is to review the methods of communication skills training in medicine.
In this review article, we searched the English database like as
Pubmed, Proquest, Google Scholar, Web of Science and Ovid and Persian database like as Magiran, Iran medex and SID with keywords like as physician patient relation, communication skills and medical education and all research related to the subject was included in the study.
FINDINGS: In the preliminary review, 103 studies were found that after the removal of repetitive articles, reviewing the abstract of these articles and determining the degree of coordination with the aim of the present study, 38 remaining articles were studied carefully. Techniques such as the use of trained patients, video recording and replay, role play, checklist, and computer based training were introduced to train this skill in a variety of clinical settings.
There are many new and effective ways to train patient communication skills in medicine, some of which do not require a real patient. The professor's awareness of the strength, weakness and application of any method can play an important role in improving the educational process

The missions of a university are education, research and social services. Because of the attention to education has been decreased in the evaluation of scientific activities, the evaluation of education should be made due to determining its effectiveness. Knowing the opinions of the postgraduate students about the features of effective teaching could have a significant effect on educational managers programing. This descriptive-analytical research was carried out as a cross-sectional study in 2017-2018 academic years. Sampling was performed by census method. Data collection tool was a questionnaire consisted of two parts of demographic data and effective teaching items in four fields of scholarship, teaching method, relationship with assistant and personal characteristics. To analyze the data, SPSS version 22 software was used and the significance level of 0.05 was considered.
FINDINGS: From the viewpoints of postgraduate students, the fields of individual characteristics and communication with the students have the most and the least importance, respectively. The mean score of the field of individual characteristics with other fields (P=0.001), the field of scholarship between male and female participants (P=0.017), the fields of relationship with the students and individual characteristics between the participants with different academic fields (P=0.009 and P=0.021, respectively), the fields of teaching method and individual characteristics between the participants with different enterance years (P=0.023 and P=0.037, respectively) and the fields of communication with the students, teaching method and individual characteristics between the participants with different total average (P=0.005, P=0.034 and P=0.008, respectively), were statistically significant. Individual characteristics of faculty members from the viewpoints of postgraduate students had the greatest impact on the effectiveness of teaching, which could be considered along with other studied fields in this study, to improve the quality of education.

Improving the quality of education is done based on a method or model at each university. One of the methods and indicators for assessing educational quality is internal evaluation and each university will be able to plan and develop its programs using its capabilities.
In this descriptive cross-sectional study, the evaluation committee was formed by faculty members of the Medical Physics Department. The number of faculty members involved in this study was four, and the number of students was 15. In this study, 41 criteria, 214 markers, and 493 scores were investigated. Data analysis was performed based on mean data.
FINDINGS: Mission, goals, and organizational status was favorable with the total score of 105 and 84% of the desirability. Training program, curriculum and non-curriculum factors with a score of 34 and 78% of the desirability, faculty member with a score of 50 and 77% of the desirability, students with a score of 90 and 78% of the desirability, learning / teaching strategies with a score of 59 and 66% of the desirability, Educational facilities and equipment with a score of 70 and 79% of the desirability, thesis and sabbatical and seminars with a score of 45 and 66% of the desirability, were all Fairly favorable. The graduates with an overall score of 57 and 59% of the desirability were unfavorable.
Among the eight factors studied in this descriptive, the status of graduate students was undesirable because most graduates did not continue their education and cut off their relationship after graduating from university

Evaluation is one of the most important parts of the process of improving and improving the quality of education in educational units. The aim of this study was to compare and review the main approaches to assessing the quality of higher education from the perspective of experts in Zabol University of Medical Sciences. The statistical population of this study consisted of all the experts and authorities responsible for assessing the quality of education in Zabol University of Medical Sciences. A total of 10 people were selected by census method as a statistical sample. In this research, AHP hierarchical analysis questionnaire was used for data collection. In order to increase the accuracy and speed of calculations, expert selection software was used for weighting and ranking of factors. In order to ensure the validity of the questionnaire, the qualitative method, ie, the viewpoints of the experts and professors have been used and the amendments and their changes have been applied to the questionnaires after the discussion. Cronbach's alpha formula was used to measure the reliability of the questionnaire. Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the 10 items of the questionnaire (0.85) was obtained which shows a high reliability. The highest weight is the internal evaluation with the final weight (0.263). Therefore, according to the criterion of compliance with the goals, the first rank has internal evaluation. After that, the final weighting (0.249) is ranked second. The statistical analysis with the final weight (0.162) and the practical test with the final weight (0.127) are in the third and fourth rank. The external evaluation with the final weight (0.087) was ranked last. The results of the prioritization of the evaluation methods showed that internal evaluation is the most important method for evaluating educational quality in Zabol University of Medical Sciences.