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Mohammad Zahedi, Homa Amirmaleki Tabrizi,
Volume 7, Issue 2 (3-2008)
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Introduction: Curriculum revision, teaching activities and interaction in instruction are required for the improvement of effectiveness of education. This research was conducted to study the effectiveness of medical education from the viewpoints of students in Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This survey was carried out on fifth year medical students in the first semester of the academic year of 2005-2006. One hundred and sixty two students were selected through stratified random sampling method. The data gathering tool was a questionnaire including 74 questions which was designed using McDonald model and consisted of three parts of curriculum, organizing teaching activities, and interaction in education. The questionnaires were distributed in educational hospitals affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences. The data was analyzed by SPSS software using descriptive and inferential statistical methods. Results: The mean and standard deviation obtained from students' viewpoints toward effectiveness of curriculum, teaching activities, and interaction in education were 2.35±0.34, 2.5±0.35, and 2.46±0.35, respectively. The first one was less than theoretical mean, while the second and third ones were equal to the theoretical mean. Conclusion: The mean obtained for effectiveness of curriculum was lower than the theoretical mean (2.5) which shows the necessity of revising medical curriculum. The mean of the interaction in instruction and teaching activities calls for a need to improve different kinds of interaction and promote the skills of instructors.
Jafar Sadegh Tabrizi, Ladan Mardani, Hadi Kalantari, Zahra Hamzehei,
Volume 10, Issue 4 (1-2011)
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Introduction: Health services management and family health students require professional knowledge and skills to meet clients’ and health systems needs and expectations. In this area, clerkship has a fundamental role to achieve specific skills and competencies. This study aimed at exploring the root problems in clerkship from the viewpoint of students in order to suggest applicable recommendations to promote the quality of education and design an appropriate clerkship program. Methods: This is a qualitative research conducted to detect clerkship problems in health services management and family health programs in July2008. Focus Group Discussion (FGD) as a qualitative data collection method was used to determine clerkship problems from the perspective of health services management and family health students. Three FGDs were carried out with 22 students. Results: The results showed that themes of coordination, teaching and supervision in the fields, tutor attendance in the fields and final exam were as the most important problem roots. Themes of planning, lesson plan, educational resources, field report and orientation workshops were found as relatively important problems. Finally, themes of hands-on practice, checking students’ presence, field workers cooperation and their satisfaction were the least important problems. Conclusion: The findings revealed that most of the concerns expressed by the students rooted from themes of coordination with school and clerkship fields, teaching and supervision in the fields, attendance of tutor in the fields , final exam, planning, lesson plan, educational resources, field report and orientation workshops. Therefore, solving these problems will improve quality of clerkship education and consequently students’ knowledge and competencies.
Jafar Sadegh Tabrizi,
Volume 11, Issue 8 (3-2012)
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Mandana Moradi Dirin, Mohsen Verdi, Hossein Delkhah, Kaveh Tabrizian , Fatemeh Izadpanah,
Volume 12, Issue 12 (3-2013)
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Introduction: Community pharmacy training course is one of the most important parts of pharmacy training program. As we faced so many problems presenting this course in Zabol pharmacy school, community pharmacy teaching software was designed to decrease the existing problems. Here we evaluated the input of our designed software on knowledge of pharmacy students of Zabol University of Medical Sciences and their opinion about it.
Methods: This is a quasi-experimental study in two consecutive groups of our students (44 students). We used the combination of classic method of lecturing and pharmacy placement in 2006 entry students (22 students as control group ) and lecturing session (same as control group) plus using our software, and then pharmacy placement in 2007 entry students (22 students as experiment group). We gave them a written exam at the end of the course and compared their mean scores. The experiment group also completed a researcher made questionnaire on their viewpoints about the software. Descriptive (mean and standard deviation) and T-test were used for data analysis.
Results: The mean score in the experiment group (13.1± 3.89) was significantly higher compared to that of the control (10.75±3.71) group (t=2.054, p=.046).Eighteen students from the study group (81.80%) agreed that the software could increase their quality of learning. Altogether, students in the study group approved using the pharmacy training software.
Conclusion: Our study results showed that this software increased the quality of learning and students had positive attitude about the effectiveness of this complementary teaching method. As this software can be used outside the pharmacy environment and does not need internet access, it can be used as a helpful teaching aid in community pharmacy training.
Abolghasem Amini, Jafar Sadegh Tabrizi, Abdolreza Shaghaghi, Mohammad Reza Narimani,
Volume 13, Issue 7 (10-2013)
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Introduction: Patient Rights Charter consists of a series of patients' legal rights that health care providers must observe and carry out but available evidences show that these are not fully practiced in some outpatient centers. This study aimed to investigate the status of observing patient rights from the perspective of clients in outpatient clinics affiliated to Tabriz University of Medical Sciences.
Methods: This cross-sectional survey study was conducted on patients admitted to outpatient centers of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences within December 2011 (N=382). These people were chosen through simple random sampling based on Cochran formula. Data collection instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire derived from Iranian Patient rights charter, which its validity and reliability was approved. Data was analyzed using t-test and ANOVA.
Results: Mean and standard deviation of total score for observing all essentials of patients’ rights charter in outpatient centers of the university was at a moderate and reasonable level (42.18±15.15) from the viewpoint of patients. The area of “providing health services based on respecting patient’s privacy and observing the essentials of secrecy and confidentiality” enjoying the highest mean score (66.12±24.39), was at a desirable level compared to other areas. The area of “having access to effective complaint management system” showed the lowest mean score (23.85±23.07) from the participants’ perspective proving a poor level. Ninety three (24.17%) of health service receivers believed that almost all areas of Patient Right Charter were observed totally in outpatient centers of the university. This is while 96 people(25.17%) believed that patients’ right chart has never been practiced in outpatient centers of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences.
Conclusions: The general satisfaction with observation of patients’ right charter in outpatient centers of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences is at a moderate level and considered to be acceptable. Only in area of “providing health services based on respecting patient’s privacy and observing the essentials of secrecy and confidentiality”, the satisfaction level is higher than norms. Therefore, study of factors affecting patients’ satisfaction is among research priorities for responding about the current satisfaction status and the manner of providing health services.
