Ali Khalooei; Akram Karbakhsh
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Background Community medicine departments play a major role in the education of medical students in order to provide primary health care services. The appropriate quality of education in such departments plays an important role in providing effective services for health promotion of communities. Objectives ...
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Background Community medicine departments play a major role in the education of medical students in order to provide primary health care services. The appropriate quality of education in such departments plays an important role in providing effective services for health promotion of communities. Objectives The current study was aimed to evaluate the quality of educational services at the Community Medicine Department of Kerman University of Medical Sciences from the viewpoint of interns and apprentices. Methods The current cross sectional, descriptive-analytical study was conducted on all medical students that completed their internship or apprenticeship course at the Community Medicine Department of Kerman University of Medical Sciences in 2016 as the study population. Data were collected by the service quality measurement questionnaire (SERVQUAL), and analyzed by Independent test, paired test, and one sample test, as well as Pearson correlation coefficient. Results Of 244 participants in the study, 58.2% (n = 142) were female and 41.8% (n = 102) male, 57% (n = 139) were in the internship and 43% (105) in the apprenticeship courses. From the students' point of view, the mean score of perception in all five dimensions of educational quality was significantly lower than the expectations score, which indicated a negative gap in the quality of educational services in all dimensions (P < 0.001). The greatest quality gap was observed in the responsiveness dimension (- 0.86) and the lowest in the assurance dimension (- 0.59). The utility level of the quality of educational services in the Department of Community Medicine was 84% from the viewpoint of the students. The highest level of utility in the quality of medical services was respectively observed in the dimensions of assurance (86.4%) and empathy (86.1%) and the lowest in responsiveness dimension (79.6%) (P < 0.001). The lowest and highest correlations were respectively observed between tangibles and assurance (r = 0.486) and between empathy and assurance (r = 0.708) dimensions. Conclusions In all five dimensions of the quality of educational services, there were negative gap that required planning for quality improvement. Issues such as modifying educational contents and tailoring training to future jobs, modifying educational methods, increasing the contribution of students to educational planning, and updating educational facilities should be considered more urgently in the education quality promotion programs.
Saadat Torabian; Abbas Vosugh Mogadam; Mojtaba Sedaghat Syahkal
Volume 3, Issue 2 , January 2007, , Pages 95-101
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Background: Human health is strongly related to economic political cultural administrative and environmental conditions Therefore Medical sciences are not limited to biomedical sciences but also include social and psychological sciences This viewpoint has led to an outlook named CommunityOriented Medicine ...
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Background: Human health is strongly related to economic political cultural administrative and environmental conditions Therefore Medical sciences are not limited to biomedical sciences but also include social and psychological sciences This viewpoint has led to an outlook named CommunityOriented Medicine After integration of Health System with Medical Education in Iran conditions for Community oriented Medical Education were provided and the departments of Community Medicine in universities with Faculty of Health and departments of Health and Community Medicine in universities without Faculty of Health were established In spite of various attempts there is still no evidence showing the outputs and outcomes of Communityoriented activities in Community Medicine Departments of our universities Objective: This study was performed to determine the statue of Community Medicine Departments of all Medical Sciences schools and Universities of Iran in regard to their facilities and resources Methods: In this descriptive cross sectional study some inputs and outputs of educational and research processes of departments of Community Medicine in all Medical Sciences Universities affiliated to the Ministry of Health Treatment and Medical Education were analyzed Results: Educational facilities and learning aids of first class universities were to some extent adequate but inadequate in the two other classes Community Medicine Departments in all three classes of universities were active in conducting students theses but they were not very active in publishing books and articles and conducting research projects Conclusion: Transition from traditional Medical Education to the communityoriented Medical Education requires shortterm and longterm programs for improving Community Medicine Departments and making them closer to standard goals
