مجله مرکز مطالعات و توسعه آموزش علوم پزشکی یزد
سال شانزدهم شماره 4 (زمستان 1400)

Due to the job sensitivity of medical sciences and its direct relationship with public health, the consequences of increasing the length of study of students will affect the society and the health system. Considering the importance of the length of study of PhD students and the lack of information about the reasons for its increase, this study was performed to identify the related factors.

There was a descriptive- correlational study. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire. A total of 118 faculty members participated in completing the questionnaires. 37 employees and 71 students also completed the questionnaire. Data analysis was performed using descriptive and analytical statistics with SPSS 24 software as well as quantitative content analysis.

Factors related to the dissertation, especially the time-consuming publication of the defense condition article, had the greatest impact on increasing the length of study for PhD students. In quantitative content analysis, the most effective factors for students were dissertation-related factors and for faculty members and employees were personal issues.

According to the results, it is necessary to modify the grant process. Deduct the length of the course while the student is waiting for the article to be published. Allocate research projects that have been paused for an additional semester, excluding the academic year. Also, a plan should be developed to increase financial support for students during their studies.

To solve any problem, it is necessary to first recognize that problem and examine the factors affecting that issue; therefore, a detailed study of stressors can help us improve the quality of education and mental health of students.

This cross-sectional study was performed at Mashhad University of Medical Sciences in the academic year 2020-2021. The participants were chosen from medical students studying in various grades using convenient sampling method. The instrument used was the standard MSSQ which consists of 20 questions including 6 different dimensions: Stress Related to Academic Issues, Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Stress, Teaching and Learning Stress, Social Stress, Desire Stress, Group Activity Stress.

A total of 463 people participated in this study out of whom 51.4% (236 people) were male. Overall, 49% of students were in high/severe condition. The highest level of stress among all dimensions belongs to the stressors related to academic issues (63.5%) and the least stressful factor for students was desire-related stress (8.20%). There was a significant relationship between total stress and gender (higher in women than men).

Considering that almost half of the students are in a high/severe state regarding stressful factors, effective training of students to manage stress and improve skills to reduce stress (e.g., by conducting workshops) would be promising.

Medicine is not only a biological science, but also includes the art of dealing with human and spiritual dimensions. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate the views of medical education professionals and students regarding the integration of art in the medical science curriculum.
In this multi-method research, 22 prominent experts in the field of education and 35 medical education students participated. The research tool was a researcher-made questionnaire with seven questions about the need to combine art in medical education, which was done simultaneously with quantitative study, qualitative study and data analysis. Quantitative study method was used descriptively-analytically and content analysis was used in the qualitative part .The face validity and content of the instrument were confirmed by professors and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha coefficient (α = 0.832).
Basically, 100% of the experts and 80% of the medical students agreed with the integration of art in medical education. They also acknowledged that it does not officially exist in the country's universities and it is necessary to include in the medical curriculum. Also, art has many applications in medical education, including improving teaching and learning, promoting creativity and emotions, keeping content in mind, applied learning, and fostering critical and creative thinking.
The results emphasized the integration of art in the medical curriculum as well as the use of art-based teaching-learning in medical sciences. But it is better to be in such a way that does not impose more educational burden on students.

Education managers can facilitate the improvement of university management by involving faculty members. They have an important role to play in directing the process of change in educational systems. Managers can drive educational innovation and improvement of developmental programs of universities by creating a motivational atmosphere. Education managers are the most important driving factor in managing the mainstream of education and are effective in motivating faculty members to improve their performance and the educational system. This includes the monitoring of sensitivity of educational activities and the complex protocols of universities, made necessary to meet the expectations, monitor the managers in managerial systems, and evaluate the performance of managers and provide feedback to them. Therefore, it can be said that evaluation in universities is a strategic action and managers of the educational system in the educational leadership process need to recognize their strengths and weaknesses and plan based on the results of evaluation. It is necessary to consider development of management skills, Planning to monitor, provide feedback to improve their performance in educational systems. In Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, the evaluation of educational managers was designed and implemented based on a multi-source feedback approach. At Shahid Sadoughi University Evaluation of managers is designed from the view of different stakeholders, including senior managers at the faculty level, as well as the educational teachers and leaders, including faculty members. Evaluation was done in two areas of professional behavior and managerial behavior. Feedback on the results will be sent to the educational managers as performance evaluation report.

Evaluation of the quality of clinical teaching from the students' point of view plays an important role in recognition of the related problems and improvement of the quality of this type of teaching. The aim of this study was to evaluate clinical teaching in Jahrom educational and training centers based on the standards of clinical teaching set by the ministry of health and Medical Education.
Keywords: Clinical teaching standards, evaluation, Medical students

The present descriptive cross-sectional study was performed by census method on 100 participants including interns and trainees. The questionnaire was composed of 51 questions including training standards in ambulatory teaching, educational round, morning report, and grand rounds, according to the standards of ministry. Content validity of the questionnaire was performed using the opinion of experts and its reliability was determined by Cronbach's alpha. The data was analyzed by using SPSS 21.

The findings of the present study showed that the educational rounds and morning report program had the highest (87.3%) and lowest (46.5%) scores in clinical teaching. Statistical tests showed that there was a significant difference between interns and trainees in terms of scores given to Grand Round and Educational Round standards (P < 0.05). However, educational rounds were relatively acceptable in the point of view of medical students.

Some educational interventions are necessary to make better adherence to the clinical teaching standards of Ministry of Health.

The hidden curriculum consists of the implicit messages of the social atmosphere of the educational centers that are not written but are felt by everyone. Due to the direct relationship between the hidden curriculum with student learning and the need for nursing faculty members, this study was conducted to exploring the nursing Students' Experiences of the Hidden Curriculums on learning process.

This qualitative study was conducted through content analysis method in Zanjan University of Medical Sciences in 2019. Purposeful sampling consisted of 19 Third and higher semester and of both sexes. Data was collected through semi-structured and in-depth interviews. Data analysis was performed manually.

A total of 84 initial codes were obtained, after which, merging similar codes, finally 44 codes were extracted in 9 sub-themes and 3 main themes including interactions, individual factors and the quality of the educational environment.

According to students' experiences of the impact of the hidden curriculum on the learning process, in order to promote student learning, the elements of the hidden curriculum should be considered in educational planning.