Attitudes of Qazvin medical students to integrate pharmacology in physiopathology course

Integration has been accepted as an important educational strategy in order to decrease unnecessary repetitions of the contents in traditional educational systems. The purpose of this study was to study student’s opinion about the quality of Pharmacology integrated with Physiopathology. This cross-sectional survey was conducted with 36 medical students taking part. A questionnaire containing 18 questions with the Likert scale was used. Data was analyzed with SPSS software. 69.5 percent of pharmacology students expressed satisfaction with the integration program, and 77.8 percent of other students that the program should not be changed However 38.9 percent of all students have been noted repetition pharmacology content and 55.6 percent confliction between this content with drug treatment in other clinical courses. Overall 80.5 percent of them agreed to continue the project at the University. The survey shows that students learn from the pharmacology of the Integration are satisfied, but in order to prevent inconsistencies between the time courses presented in the pathophysiology of efforts should be made.