Effective Factors on Clinical Education Quality; Anesthesiology and Operating Room Students View

Evaluating the attitudes of students is one of the ways to continuously improvement of the quality of clinical training. This study was done about the problems of the clinical training، aimed at evaluating the views of the anesthesiology and operating room students in clinical training. This cross-sectional study was done in 2011 - 2012 academic year، among 149 anesthesiology and operating room students in the Schools of Paramedical and Nursing and Midwifery Sciences of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. Data were collected in five domains of targets and educational programs، instructor، dealing with student، educational atmosphere and monitoring and evaluation، and were analyzed with SPSS18 software using paired-T test. Anesthesiology students believed that the most effective factors influencing the quality of clinical training were instructor (81. 6%); targets and educational programs (67. 8%); educational atmosphere (57. 4%) and operating room students cited Instructor (87. 1%); dealing with students (80. 7%) and targets and educational programs (77. 4%) as factors influencing the quality of clinical training. The difference in the attitude of students of these two fields was significant. The instructor has the most important effect on the clinical training in the anesthesiology and operating room students’ views. Situation of clinical education in the two fields of anesthesiology and operating room at the Tabriz University of Medical Sciences is in a desirable level.