مجله مرکز مطالعات و توسعه آموزش علوم پزشکی یزد
سال هفتم شماره 2 (تابستان 1391)

Support, advice and guidance of students during of study are one of the most important responsibilities of universities. They are responsible to solve student's problem about this matter. Thus, this study has been designed to determine the student's view about of the Duties and Performance of Academic advisors. This study which is a descriptive- analytical study. Is performed on 250 nursing and midwifery and operation room students selected using by census method. In order to analysis of finding, Questionnaire has been used to determine the student's view of the duties and performance of academic advisors. SPSS 17 software and descriptive - inferential statistic has been used to analysis of finding. The findings showed that, more than half of students were agree with academic advisors duties. From student's view "offering advice in terms of job and education" and "assessing the current academic status of students" were as main tasks of academic advisors. "Advisor' consult with other experts about the current problems" and the "introduction of relevant units to meet the needs of students" were the weakest cases of performance of academic advisors. And performance of academic advisors was good in students’ view about 31.6 percent. In this study views of students are well suited to the tasks of academic advisors. This issue indicated that, there is an appropriate potential to promote students consulting. According to the results on the performance of academic advisors need to make fundamental changes in the process of Supervisors is academic counseling.

The role of e-Learning in medical education is rapidly growing. Acceptance and satisfaction of e-Learning recipients of continuing Medical Education (CME) programs is very important in its success. The aim of this study is to assess CME’s participants’ satisfaction about e-Learning programs in Semnan University of Medical Sciences.

This is a cross-sectional study. Over the period of one year, 90 participants passed the program including instructions, lesson, examination and feedback questionnaire which were evaluated comparatively. Data Collection tool was a questionnaire composed of 28 questions in two parts. The first part assess demographic characteristics of the participants and the second part evaluated the level of participant satisfaction about the quality of e-Learning content and program. Data analysis was performed using the software SPSS 18.

The highest satisfaction was in content sequence (74.1%) followed by goal clsarity (71.7%), program help (69.6%) and speech quality (60.8%) respectively.

Similar to other studies, the result of this study revealed that most of CME learners can use e-Learning programs without leaving their work place and need to commute.

According to modern approaches to management, quality is described as consumer’s requests. Thus, recognizing consumers’ perceptions of service quality is one of the first basic steps in formulating any quality improvement program. The objective of this study is assessing the consumer's perceptions of quality in Educational Services at Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences. This study was analytic cross-sectional and performed in 1389 in Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences in Yazd. The study group was medical student in their end period of inter ship which had passed internal, surgical, gynecological and pediatric ward. Questionnaire had been gathered based on SERVQUAL instrument, which proved to be valid and reliable, was used for data collection. Five dimensions of educational services quality (Reliability, Responsiveness, Empathy, Assurance, Tangibles) were assessed by this questionnaire. For statistic analysis, descriptive statistic and Friedman and Manvitni tests were applied. The findings showed that the respondents’ choices clearly showed that the reliability dimension of service quality was better and responsiveness dimension was worse. There was a significant difference in quality between five dimensions, and between four wards that we studied, pediatric has better service quality in all dimensions and gynecology was worse. Respondents’ perceptions of service quality in each statement of five dimensions indicated that there were opportunities for quality improvement. In these faculties, thus, in order to improve quality of educational services, considering what stated above, it is necessary to initiate strategies and implement those strategies, since there are significant differences of quality in the five dimensions, when allocating resources, these differences must be taken into consideration.

The educational supervisors should attempt to plan and implement nurses’ development programs according to the principles of educational process. The present study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of educational supervisors from the viewpoints of clinical nurses and nurse managers in 2007. 97 clinical nurses and 33 nurse managers in educational hospitals of Yazd participated in this cross sectional study. The questionnaire including 56 items related to expected professional competencies of educational supervisor was prepared and its validity and reliability was confirmed. Overall Cronbach’s alpha was 0.97 ranging from 0.77 to 0.96 for different dimensions which indicated internal consistency of the questionnaire. The results showed 42.3% of nurses considered the function of their hospital as effective, 52.6% as ineffective, and 5.2% as relatively effective. One hundred percent of metrons considered the function of educational supervisors as effective. All the educational supervisors considered their function effective. The study samples reported that all the listed criteria were important in the effectiveness of educational supervisors’ function. In order to improve the effectiveness of educational supervisors’ function their management and leadership competencies should be developed. Competency-based approach is suggested in preparing educational supervisors for implementing the educational process from the problem solving skills. This will help nurse managers to make their work environments a learning and educational institute.

Needs’ assessment is the first stage in designing Continuing Medical Education (CME) Programs. To obtain clients’ satisfaction with services of nurses as the largest group providing health and treatment services, designing and executing educational programs related to their needs is necessary. This study was conducted to determine CME priorities of nursing graduates employed in treatment and teaching centers of Kashan and suburb. A cross-sectional study was conducted on 238 nurses. Separate questionnaires were designed for different hospital wards. Every educational subject was scored on a Likert scale ranging from zero to ten. Data were extracted, classified and analyzed in SPSS using descriptive and inferential statistics. In general (9.18±1.44), surgical (9.40±1.63) and emergency wards (9.32±1.79), the most important need identified was cardiopulmonary resuscitation. In intensive care units (ICU), dialysis units and pediatrics and neonatal ICU wards, identified items included deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (9.02±1.53), bone metabolic diseases (9.91±0.28), cardiopulmonary resuscitation (9.29±0.91) and asphyxia (9.78±0.41), respectively with the greatest mean scores. From viewpoint of studied nurses, the most important CME priorities were learning clinical skills about managing patients with unstable conditions and correct utilization of medical equipments which are related to their everyday practice. It is necessary that CME planners and policy makers to pay attention to nurses’ CME needs which are different across various wards.

Evaluation is an important part of all educational activities and considering of these evaluations help us to improve all educational institutes.The aim of this study was evaluation of face validity of multiple choice questions in faculty of dentistry in second semester of 1385-1386 at Shahid Sadughi University of medical sciences. In this study, for evaluating of face validity, all of the multiple choice questions were examined with a check list which were considered and the percentage of face validity established. Then data were analyzed. Introduction page, time of the exam and name of the professor(s) were written in all of the exams. The independency of the questions and the lack of vague words in the question's stem were 100%. The percentage of each professor's contribution in the exam and the length of the choices for each question were 8.7% and 27.7% respectively. Face validity of the questions was 92-99.7%. According to this investigation it is concluded that some of the professors need to pass the question plan courses.

E-learning has been developing side by side of traditional education in most countries. In Iran, development of e-Learning is a recognized need. This study aimed to assess viewpoints of students of Shahid Sadoughi Unversity of Medical Sciences towards e-Learning in teaching clinical biochemistry. This is a cross-sectional study. One hundred and fifty students of Shahid Sadoughi University participated in the study in 2011. A questionnaire was designed to assess viewpoints of students towards e-Learning. Those students who attended in two sessions of e-Learning of clinical biochemistry, including mechanisms of related disease, side by side of face to face education, have a positive attitude towards this method of learning. Considering the positive attitude of the students towards e-Learning, and complexity and volume of basic science in medical universities, we suggest developing necessary infrastructures to add this method of learning to the curriculum of biochemistry and other basic sciences in medical universities of Iran.

PowerPoint TM software is the major component present in the lecture halls, conference rooms and classrooms. Many studies have been done about PowerPoint in classrooms. Given the conflicting results of studies, this study has examined the attitudes of students about the role of PowerPoint in their learning. This cross-sectional study was conducted on 196 students of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences. Data was collected using a questionnaire and analyzed using Mann- Witney, Kruskal- Wallise test and Spearman correlation tests. Of all students, %81.6 found written summaries of PowerPoint slides useful. Also %53.6 of all students tended to provide slides both a summary and fall details. Almost half of students disagreed that the PowerPoint slides encourage them to be passive. Indeed, %68.4 of students tended to be more involved in classes. Students (%46.9) opposed with the claim that PowerPoint TM sessions are predetermined. However, they believed according to available facilities, educational materials should be provided for effective learning. Correlation analysis showed that increasing age and the number of terms passed made most students to believe that PowerPoint encourage them to inactivity. This study indicated that students were not agreed with the existing criticisms about PowerPoint.