Role of university advisors in the viewpoint of medical science's students

University plays an important role in increasing the competency and ability of students. Students do not become successful on their own and the University advisor can be a key of success. This study was carried out with the aim of assessing the students’ viewpoints about the university advisors’ duties and evaluating their satisfaction with their university advisors. This descriptive-analytical cross-sectional study was performed on medical sciences students of Babul University of Medical Sciences in the first academic semester of 2009-10. 231 students were selected by cluster randomized sampling. Data were collected using a researcher-made questionnaire and were analyzed by multi-variant regression, independent T-test, Chi-square test and variance analysis using SPSS 16 software. 71.7% of the students had few monthly refers to their advisors. Only 13.4% of the participants had proper awareness of the role of University advisors. 87.1% agreed with the presence of senior students beside the advisor. Most of the students were not satisfied with their advisors’ practice (M=35.4). Students satisfaction with advisor's practice was predicted by the visiting frequency (β=0.369, p=0.001) and their field of study (β=0.238, p=0.003). Students have little awareness of University advisors’ roles and duties and are not satisfied with their advisors’ practice. Creating a good advisor-student relationship is strongly recommended in this regard.