Evaluation of the effectiveness of the educational workshop in a station method on changing the viewpoint and knowledge of faculty members about the duties of academic advisors

Despite the serious need of students for counseling during their studies, a good relationship is not established between students and academic advisors due to lack of knowledge and sufficient skills in performing counseling tasks. In the present study, we investigated the effectiveness of station workshop on the knowledge of faculty members about students 'challenges and its effect on changing faculty member's viewpoints about the duties of academic advisors.

This single-arm interventional study before and after that conducted with the participation of sixty-two faculty members of Bojnurd Medical School. Data collected using a questionnaire that consisted of three parts, the first part was related to demographic information, the second part was related to assessing the knowledge of faculty members with student's challenges, and the third part was evaluating faculty members' viewpoints about the duties of academic advisors. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data using Graph Pad Prism software.

The results showed that this workshop causes a significant increase in the knowledge of faculty members in various fields of education, research, psychological support and welfare facilities, except for complementary and extracurricular activities. Also, we observed improving the viewpoint of faculty members in various fields except academic guidance and prevention of students' mental and psychological problems after the workshop.

In addition to changing the viewpoint of faculty members about the duties of the academic advisor, the workshop in a station method can be an effective way to improve their knowledge about students' challenges.