Evaluation of Educational Challenges of General Medicine Students

Medical education and training efficient human resources have always been among educational planners’ concerns. Given the history of medical education in our country, identification of medical education problems, barriers, and challenges and attempting to eliminate or correct them will increase the chance of achieving educational goals and training expert, capable and efficient people. Therefore, the present study aimed to analyze the educational challenges of general medicine students at North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences.

This qualitative study was performed on 15 faculty members, medical students, the head of the medical education department, treatment vice-chancellors, and education and research vice-chancellors using conventional content analysis in 2020. The subjects were selected by purposive sampling.

In this study, the most important educational challenges of medical students were classified into three categories of educational structures, training processes, and underlying components and seven sub-categories of human resources, physical space, equipment, planning, management, evaluation and monitoring, motivational causes and professionalism.

Our findings provided a deeper understanding of the educational challenges of medical students, comprehension of which helps develop the field of medicine and eliminate its barriers.