Leili Yekefallah; Fatemeh Samiee; Abbas Allami; Afsaneh Yakhforoshha
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Health education institutes should provide effective programs to prepare healthcare professionals who can deliver safe and high-quality care in the future. Thus, integration of the health service system and the health education system is required to provide students with the opportunity to translate ...
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Health education institutes should provide effective programs to prepare healthcare professionals who can deliver safe and high-quality care in the future. Thus, integration of the health service system and the health education system is required to provide students with the opportunity to translate theory into practice when delivering care to patients and communities (1). One approach that was reported as a promising modality of health care delivery as well as a novel educational approach for bridging the gap between education and clinical practice through experiential learning is home-based care (HBC) (2)...
Seyed Hadi Hakak; Abbas Allami; Fariba Derakhshan; Mahnaz Abbasi
Volume 13, Issue 6 , March 2017, , Pages 539-552
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Background & Objective: The majority of surveys have demonstrated the inadequate success rate of continuing education programs in Iran from the viewpoint of participants However no studies have been conducted on the viewpoints of lecturers (influential individuals and beneficiaries in this issue) ...
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Background & Objective: The majority of surveys have demonstrated the inadequate success rate of continuing education programs in Iran from the viewpoint of participants However no studies have been conducted on the viewpoints of lecturers (influential individuals and beneficiaries in this issue) in this regard Thus the present study aimed to investigate the problems of continuing education programs and their solutions from the perspective of lecturers Methods: This qualitative study was conducted in 2015 on 15 university faculty members who had previous experience of lecturing continuing education programs The participants were selected using purposive sampling (n = 15) Data were gathered through focus group discussion All discussions were recorded on audiotapes transcribed and then analyzed through inductive content analysis Results: Data analysis led to the extraction of 3 main themes (problems) 12 categories 42 subcategories and 68 suggested solutions The main themes included the reduction of incentive to participate in programs (4 categories) low effectiveness of implemented programs (5 categories) and the ineffective evaluation of programs (3 categories) Conclusion: The main motivation for general practitioners to participate in these programs must be the correction of professional practice It seems that intervention in the implementation and assessment fields are more likely than participants motivation Providing teaching methods workshops for faculty members improving awareness of the goals and timetable of workshops holding workshops rather than lectures evaluating performance instead of satisfaction and providing feedback on the assessment results are effective factors in the efficiency of programs
Fariba Derakhshan; Simin Yazdanfar; Abbas Allami
Volume 13, Issue 6 , March 2017, , Pages 632-637
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Background & Objective: Concept mapping is an active creative and objective practice which improves the advanced learning process and students required skills The aim of this study was the evaluation of concept mapping method in learning histology lessons from the point of view of midwifery students ...
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Background & Objective: Concept mapping is an active creative and objective practice which improves the advanced learning process and students required skills The aim of this study was the evaluation of concept mapping method in learning histology lessons from the point of view of midwifery students Methods: The present research was a descriptive crosssectional study The target population consisted of all firstsemester midwifery students of Qazvin University of Medical Sciences Iran in 2015 After concept mapping education the students were asked to make a concept map of the lessons of the same week and to hand it in the following session At the end of the semester students views regarding the effect of concept mapping on learning were collected by completing the researchermade questionnaire The collected data were analyzed in SPSS software Frequency distribution was presented in the form of frequency tables Onesample ttest was used to compare the mean score of each question with its mean and 3 (the value of the mean) Results: In this study 689% of students confirmed the usefulness of concept mapping during the semester Among the students 69% believed other methods to be more effective However 586% of students found it effective in memorizing histological terms and 655% emphasized that concept mapping helped them better understand histology lessons Independent ttest results showed a significant difference between the mean score of each question and 3 This revealed that mapping was useful in better understanding (P = 0003) maintaining terminology (P = 0004) and answering questions (P = 0001) In general the majority of students approved the use of concept mapping as an effective learning method during the term (P < 0001) Conclusion: This study showed that concept maps are acceptable among students as a means of learning new information Therefore in order to facilitate learning for students the application of different training strategies like concept mapping is suggested in basic medical sciences educations
Abbas Allami; Reza Qasemi Barqi
Volume 9, Issue 1 , July 2012, , Pages 97-101
