Students, View Points on Internship Community Medicine Course in Tehran Medical Universities

Community-Based Medical Education (CBE) is considered as a new educational approach in the school of medicine. This study was designed to determine the quality of education during the internship in community medicine course in medical universities in Tehran.

This is a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted on community medicine internship in medical schools of Tehran during 2008-2009. A nonrandom sample of 180 interns was selected by convenience. The data, collected by a researcher made questionnaire whose validity and reliability had been confirmed, were analyzed by Ҳ2, Mann-Whitney and Spearman coefficient tests.

Over 75% of interns were satisfied with the course planning, the applied content of the workshop, the presence of faculty members and their responsiveness to the students’ questions. In addition, 78% the students were satisfied with teaching on health care system. There was a significant correlation between students, satisfaction with internship and the university they were studying in (p<0.002).

It seems that medical schools in Tehran follow the educational out lines well, and community medicine interns are relatively satisfied with the course.