Journal of Medical Education Development
Year:2015 | Volume:8 | Issue:19|Papers Count:13

Background & Aim: Perhaps we can say that the most important part of any training program and Curriculum, is evaluation, Because only by doing that can we realize the shortcomings of the program will attempt to fix them. Several studies have shown that continuous assessment and interventions according to their results, the effects are undeniable improvements in educational process at all levels. Due to the fact that evaluation of training programs is a dynamic Mstmrv activity, led to the study design, along with student evaluation system is designed to do.Materials & Methods: Web design software and the computer was installed and running. Web to SMS service connected to a mobile phone able to recall scores assessed by evaluation. After the necessary arrangements for a group of nursing students were assessed by cell phone and text messaging to help . Outgoing SMS messages in a web application fetches the evaluation and feedback will be sent to students.Results: Advanced features that allow reporting of student, group director of strategic information processing Vdrs periodically, creating charts, student evaluation scores based on the cut- defined records, student evaluation, daily feedback on student performance, aggregate evaluation scores student evaluation of the course of history is Bdra.Conclusion: The results of this application has been examined in various ways and multiple times accordance with the principles of evaluation is proven.

Background and Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the brain cognitive functions of medical students with high and low academic performances.Materials and Methods: The research sample consisted of all students at the Lorestan University of Medical Science. A sample of 120 students with low academic performance and 120 students with high academic performance were selected randomly. A questionnaire was used to gather information on cognitive abilities. Data was analyzed using multivariate analysis of variance through SPSS19.Results: The findings showed that there is a significant difference between students with high and low academic performances. That is, individuals with greater cognitive abilities had high academic performances.Conclusion: The results of this study have important implications in terms of improving the quality of teaching and learning through taking into account the brain cognitive abilities.

Background and Objective: Increasing student's knowledge and attitude about HIV, HBV and HCV appears to be important and essential to prevent such diseases. The aim of the present study was to evaluate educational intervention on knowledge and attitude of dental students of Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences towards preventing of bloodborne diseases.Materials and Methods: This study was cross-sectional and involved four stages. In the first stage, 60 students of Dental School of Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences were selected randomly. Data was collected by a questionnaire, and then students were divided into experimental and control groups. In the second stage, educational intervention was conducted on the experimental group. In the third and fourth stages, immediately and three months after the intervention the questionnaire was given to both groups. Data was analyzed using independent t-test, repeated measure and Pearson correlation coefficients, p<0.05 was significant.Results: The average age of students was 22.13±1.722 years and 66.66% of them were female and 33.33% were male.This study showed that the students' knowledge and attitude score in both groups had no significant difference before the intervention (attitude: P=0.622, knowledge: P=0.202) but had a significant difference immediately and three months after the intervention (P<0.0001). Knowledge and attitude score didn' t correlate with age and gender (P=0.065).Conclusion: Our study showed that training towards preventing blood-borne diseases, can enhance student's knowledge and attitude.

Background and Objective: Clinical education is considered one of the most important parts of nursing education. There is little interest in family-centered care in education of students. This study was conducted to investigate the nursing students' experiences in family-centered care in 2013.Materials and Methods: Participants were 8 nursing students in their sixth semester who were selected purposely. The principles and concepts of family-centered care and teaching process based on these principles were developed and implemented. The students' experiences with teaching family-centered care were examined. Interviews with eight nursing students were saturated with these experiences and were analyzed by qualitative content analysis.Results: Based on the analysis of data, three main categories were obtained. The main category of students' eagerness consisted of three subcategories including novelty and attractiveness of family centered care, close connection between theory and practice, and reducing stress. The main category of the barriers to implement family-centered care consisted of the following four subcategories: staff shortage, lack of time, space shortage and personnel unawareness of the concept of family-centered care. The main category of the need to implement family-centered care consisted of three subcategories including the necessity for space replacement, personnel training and paying attention to the parents' role.Conclusion: Family-centered care improves family and infant health and increases students' satisfaction.Also family-centered care is a priority for the Ministry of Health. It is recommended to implement the family-centered care course in undergraduate education.

Background and Objective: Problem based learning (PBL) is one of the known educational methods in different countries. This study was conducted to compare the medical student’s satisfaction in problem based learning method versus conventional lecturing.Materials and Methods: Two groups of five and six year medical students of Zanjan university of medical sciences referred to pediatric wards of Mousavi Hospital in Zanjan, Iran were enrolled in this study. The students were divided in two groups. Two common topics in pediatrics were selected. One of the topics was presented as lecture for the first group and as PBL to the second group. After 1.5 months, the second topic was presented as PBL to the first group and as lecture to the second group.Results: In overall 76.8% of students preferred PBL and 18.9% of them preferred lecture. In the field of learning quality, Knowledge retention, the practical application of contents, Class attraction, and motivation for studythe students preferred PBL compared to lecture. But 69.5% of students believed that lecture increases the ability to answer the exam questions.Conclusion: Overall, in this study students preferred problem based learning (PBL) to the traditional lecture method for teaching.

Background and Objective: Students' tendency to study their class notes instead of studying textbooks would have negative effects not only on learning process but also on their research interest and motivation.The present research was conducted to evaluate study habits and attitudes of medical students and residents about studying educational resources at Zanjan University of Medical Sciences.Materials and Methods: In this descriptive study, 254 students from different stages of medical education were selected through simple random sampling. Data was collected using a researcher-made questionnaire.The validity and reliability of which were confirmed. Analysis was performed using SPSS16 through descriptive and analytical methods.Results: The findings of the study revealed that more than 50% of participants study 3 hours per day.45.9% preferred studying their class notes and 35.3% preferred to study textbooks. The most reasons were easy accessing, saving time, and the probability of obtaining a higher score.Conclusion: Although the students are aware of the importance of the textbooks, they prefer to study their class notes. It seems that planning to improve the study habits and skills, applying new methods of teaching and more attention to foreign language skills are necessary.

Background and Objective: Measuring academic achievement of students is an important research in educational systems. Hence, studying variables which are related to academic achievement in different academic subjects is one of the main topics of research in educational system. This study was performed in order to assess the association of students' educational progress regarding additional classes before passing their university entrance exam.Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional and analytical study was conducted in 1391 on 116 students of Jahrom University of Medical Sciences. Data was obtained by a self-made questionnaire including: part1; demographic characteristics, part2; questions on students' points of view about additional classes, and part3; data about raw scores and total rank of entrance exam and also the first and second semester GPA of all the students. Findings were analyzed using SPSS V.16.Results: 116 students participated in this study. (2.3%) 35 didn’t attend any classes and (8/69٪) 81 attended different classes. There was a significant correlation between total ranks of students' entrance exam and participating in additional classes. (p=0.007, r=0.251). Also, there was a significant correlation between raw scores of students' entrance exam and participating in additional classes. (p=.0.21, r=0.215). There was a significant but inverse correlation between students' total ranks of entrance exam and their first semester GPA. (p=0.003, r=-0.27)..h een ny classes and lasses Conclusion: Although the correlation coefficient does not show a strong correlation between students' GPA and attending additional classes before entering the university, but it could mean that participating in the mentioned classes, not only does not help students to improve their academic abilities but, perhaps for some reasons that should be investigated, leads to students' academic failure at university. Therefore, there is a need to revise curricula in all the disciplines and levels of education.

Background and objective: Residents’ specialty choices have a direct impact on the health care organization and supplying physician manpower in the future. This study carried out to assess medical residents' specialty choice preferences and society needs in Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences.Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 389 medical residents in 2013. Data on participants’ demographics, specialty choice and influencing factors in specialty choice was collected using a questionnaire. Validity and reliability of the questionnaire were confirmed. The data was analyzed by descriptive and analytical statistics using SPSS software.Results: Out of 389 medical residents, 186 (48%) were female and 92 (24.5%) were married with an average age of 34.68±4.8. Females' specialty choice priorities were Radiology, Gynecology and Cardiology; and males' priorities were Radiology, Cardiology and Orthopedics. Overall, Radiology (20.5%) Cardiology (17.8%) and Ophthalmology (9.2%) were the most favored specialty choices.According to the Chi-square test, gender was significantly associated with specialty choice. Chisquare test showed significant differences in specialty choice preferences between males and females in some fields. Statistically significant differences were identified between the specialty choice priorities of medical residents and the capacity of specialized fields (p<0.05).Conclusion: Knowing the medical residents’ preferences of the various specialties could help in resolving the maldistribution of physicians among the various specialties. These findings can also be an important input for the healthcare leadership to promote a specialty distribution that matches the society needs.

Background and Objective: Due to the negative impact of cheating in learning process and the need for planning to reduce it, this study was performed to determine the frequency and factors associated with cheating among students of Qom University of Medical Sciences in 2013 Materials and Methods: This study was a cross sectional one. Questionnaires were given to all the students of Qom University of Medical Sciences and 536 students completed the questionnaire. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by ten experts and its reliability was examined in a pilot study. SPSS software was used to analyze the data. Descriptive statistic was used to calculate mean and standard deviation, and for inferential statistics t-test was performed.Results: 536 students participated in the study. Frequency of cheating among students of Anesthesiology was the highest and among students of operating room and midwifery was the lowest. The most common ways of cheating were taking a furtive look at classmate's examination paper and displaying one's exam paper to other students. The least common ways of cheating were accessing the questions before the exam and asking someone else to attend the examination session. Additionally, the most common reason of cheating was due to the only evaluation criterion which is taking a good score and anxiety was the least reason of not to cheat.Conclusions: Many types of cheating are avoidable by creating regulations, training and training management. Prevalence of cheating in academic environments of Iran is undeniable that is why extensive research should be done to identify the dependent variables of cheating among students, especially medical students.

Background and Objective: Clinical biochemistry is one of the courses which have been arranged for pharmacy students. Its deep learning and understanding could be an important foundation for students' expertise. According to the problem in deep learning of this course and in order to generate more interests among affiliate students, the present study aimed to compare the teacher- centered method and active cooperative learning method.Materials and Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted on 65 pharmacy students at Isfahan University of Medical Sciences during the first semester of 2012-2013. Some subjects were taught through teacher-centered method and some of them through students' seminars. The students' satisfactory score of cooperative method was calculated by a questionnaire. The mean score of students' final exam was compared with the mean score of pharmacy students who were taught only by traditional method. T-tests and chisquare analysis was used.Results: The satisfactory average score of students in cooperative method was 64%. The average score of the effect of the method on motivating students at biochemistry was 62.2%, in more effective learning was 66.2%, and in motivating students to cooperate in team work was 57%. There was not any significant difference between the final exam scores of the two groups.Conclusion: According to the significant students' satisfaction of cooperative teaching, it is recommended to use interactive teaching methods with student participation that engage them to achieve deep and effective learning. These results could be an incentive to improve teaching methods from "teacher- centered "to "student-centered".

Background and Purpose: Using images is a requirement of medical education and evaluation of effect of type of image on learner could be helpful for medical education. The purpose of the present study is comparison of two dimensional and three dimensional images in neuroscience learning.Method: In present case control study، equal number of two dimensional and three dimensional images of neurons system were presented to 61 students in twice and learning is evaluated with four choice examination. Data were analyzed with Paired T Test and ANOVA.Results: Findings show that three dimensional Picture have higher performance in education (P<0.01). Female have better performance than male (P<0.05) and there are no differences between both genders and type of images (P> 0.05).Conclusion: Three dimensional figures preference in memorizing is related to higher features of three dimensional stimuli than two dimensional. Interpreting symbols in two dimensional images caused overload of working memory and diminished learner performance.

Background and Objective: Internet is one of the world's most popular social media and online addiction is increasing rapidly. This study aimed to determine the level of internet addiction and its related factors among students of Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences.Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in the first academic semester in 2015.384 students of Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences were selected. Cluster data sampling method was used and each college was considered as a cluster. Samples from each college were selected randomly. Data collection instrument was a standard questionnaire. The first part of the questionnaire was demographic questions and the second part was the main questions to determine the prevalence of internet addiction. The collected data was analyzed by SPSS version 21 through descriptive and analytical statistics.Results: 95.1% of the students filled and returned the questionnaires. The findings of the study showed that 17 students (4.7%) did not have any dependency to the Internet.238 (65.2%) had a slight dependency, 94 (25.8%) had moderate dependency and 16 (4.4%) had severe dependency. There was a significant relationship between internet addiction and gender (p=0.002), marital status (p=0.04), habitat (p=0.02) and having a personal computer (p=0.03).Conclusion: Due to the high level of moderate addiction to the internet, holding workshops on the advantages and disadvantages of using the Internet and consequences of excessive Internet use is suggested.

Background and Objective: The purpose of our study was to assess resident and fellow patient care competency related to chest port catheter insertion after implementation of an educational program and completion of a certification checklist. Furthermore, we aimed to measure the impact of this intervention on early infection rates.Materials and Methods: Baseline early infection rates as defined by the CDC were obtained in 152 consecutive patients. These were segregated by primary operator and timeframe. Following establishment of a baseline infection rate, formalized training of residents and fellows was undertaken. This included a hands-on suture workshop and satisfactory completion of a skill set with attending level certification. To evaluate competency, a procedure competency checklist was developed by the interventional radiology faculty. The checklist consisted of 17 detailed steps considered important for chest port catheter insertion. Following the training period, infection rates of 415 consecutive patients were calculated and compared to the baseline infection rates.Results: Four out of eight (50%) residents satisfactorily demonstrated competency and were certified as primary operators for port insertion. In addition, both of the two interventional radiology fellows were certified. The early infection rates of chest port catheters placed by residents slightly decreased from 3.0% to 2.2% following the intervention compared to baseline, although this decrease was not statistically significant.Total infection rates also decreased slightly from 2.6% to 1.4%.Conclusions: In our study, the rate of early infections after port insertion decreased following the educational intervention and certification process, although this was not statistically significant.