Iranian Journal of Medical Education

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Introduction: In order to familiarize faculty members of medical sciences with teaching methods and techniques, a number of teaching method workshops are being held at Tehran University of Medical Sciences in which about 40 teaching methods are taught to faculty members. This study investigates the faculty memebres’ knowledge and application of these methods that were instructed to them from year 2003 to 2011 in Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was performed on faculty members of Tehran University of Medical Sciences who participated in teaching methods workshops. Using stratified sampling method, 205 of these faculty members were selected. Data gathering tool was a valid and reliable questionnaire made by researcher which evaluated knowledge level of members about those 40 trained methods. Data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics (mean and analysis of variance). Results: The furthermost rate of knowledge and application of methods by members were belonged to lecture method (mean and SD= 8.55±1.15) and the lowermost of them matched to telepraxis method (mean and SD= 0.75±1.07). 155 faculties (75.6%) were satisfied with workshops. Moreover, speech was the most widely used technique (more than 90%). Programmed lecture was the most appropriate method from the viewpoints of participants. At last, 155 of participants (75.6%) were satisfied with workshops. Conclusion: Despite the efforts of universuty in training new methods over past 10 years, faculty members showed more interest to use traditional methods.

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Introduction: Review of published research in the field of medical education helps determine the direction of future research. The aim of this study was to perform a quantitative content analysis of Persian language articles published in the field of medical education during 2014.
Methods: In this study, all articles published in nine scientific journals in the field of medical education during 2014 were reviewed. The variables were extracted from the full-text of articles including title, the number of authors, type of article, research methodology, sample size, research population and topics. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics.
Results: A total of 366 articles were analyzed. In the titles of articles, 97% of the articles referred to research variable, 41% to research methodology and research population, and 13% to research intervention. Also, 39% of the articles referred to the site and 11% to the time of the research. 42% of articles were descriptive. The most common topics were teaching methods, student health status and thinking style.
Conclusion: This study focused on the analysis of published articles during a one-year period. Qualitative and quantitative analyses of publications in later years would provide the necessary information for research and educational policy-making in medical education.