The effect of educational indicators intervention on the website of Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences

  Educational center websites play an important role in providing information for prospective students, current students and graduates and faculty members. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of educational indicators intervention on the website of Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences.

  The present study was a quasi-experimental study (before and after) in which the research population was the website of 7 affiliated faculties of Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences.  The instrument used was a checklist which developed by the researcher in terms of the presence or absence of variables and indicators derived from the indicators explained in the educational ranking of medical universities and accreditation standards of educational institutions (from the packages of the plan for transformation in education). Data were analyzed using SPSS software version 22 and descriptive statistics (mean) and paired t-test.

  Based on the results of this study, there was a significant difference between the mean score before and after the intervention in the structure and also the organizational identity of Bandar Abbas Nursing and Midwifery School website, between the average score in the content of the medical school website and between the mean score in the contact us of Bandar Abbas School of Medicine, Nursing and Midwifery and Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

  Considering the importance of websites, the relevant authorities should have careful policies and planning and regular monitoring of the website in order to develop them quantitatively and qualitatively.