Alireza Yousefy, Fakhrosadat Hosseini,
Volume 10, Issue 5 (2-2011)
Abstract
Introduction: this study is aimed at investigating faculty’s and students’ perspective whether health social workers can be hired as substitute for evaluators or as a co-evaluator for clerkship students assesmet in community medicine course? Methods: this research is a cross-sectional study. The study has been conducted by participation of medical students assigned to pass comunity medicine course in January 2011. An OSCE designed for evaluation of medical students’ competencies. It consist of eight stations. In each health care center a faculty member and a social health worker were assigned for evaluation of students. For each station a chekclist devised to measure the competency and its validity was assured by experts. Its reliability was measured (α=0.83). All data was analyzed by SPSS software (version 14). Results: In all stations, except one, a significant corralation was measured between the results of faculty and health care workers evaluation (P<0.05, r=0.86). All faculties and instructors aknowledge that social health workers can not be trusted for medical students evaluatin. 83.3% declared that community medicine department can ask for health care workers to evaluate medical stuents globally. Conclusion: Considering social health care workers’ competencies, perhaps it is ineligible to ask for social health workers to evaluate medical students but they can participate in the exam as standard patients.
Ali Davati, Mahboubeh Aghaee, Maryam Kamali, Fatemeh Gitinavard, Fatemeh Ramezani, Niusha Andalibi,
Volume 11, Issue 4 (11-2011)
Abstract
Introduction: Community-Based Medical Education (CBE) is considered as a new educational approach in the school of medicine. This study was designed to determine the quality of education during the internship in community medicine course in medical universities in Tehran. Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted on community medicine internship in medical schools of Tehran during 2008-2009. A nonrandom sample of 180 interns was selected by convenience. The data, collected by a researcher made questionnaire whose validity and reliability had been confirmed, were analyzed by Ҳ2, Mann-Whitney and Spearman coefficient tests. Results: Over 75% of interns were satisfied with the course planning, the applied content of the workshop, the presence of faculty members and their responsiveness to the students’ questions. In addition, 78% the students were satisfied with teaching on health care system. There was a significant correlation between students, satisfaction with internship and the university they were studying in (p<0.002). Conclusion: It seems that medical schools in Tehran follow the educational out lines well, and community medicine interns are relatively satisfied with the course.
