The Effectiveness of Education in Internship Phase from the Medical University Student´s Viewpoint

Abstract

Introduction: Today, the socio-economic development of countries is due to the university's modernization program, which requires the proper training of a specialized human resource, the student, in which education plays a key role. Among the educational programs of a country, medical education is expensive, because of the nature of this field. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the opinions of medical students about the effectiveness of medical education course for use and policy making of educational authorities. Methods: In this method, from 220 questionnaires, each containing 44 questions, with 6 domains, including achieving goals, curriculum and content, organization and planning, interactions, professor evaluation and support services, designed based on Kirk Patrick's 4-level model was used, and the community of medical students and interns between January 2016 and November 2018 was selected by the full-scale method. Each question contained a 5-point Likert scale of numerical responses including 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 for referring to undesirable, poor, average, good and excellent. Students' opinions were analyzed by SPSS software. Also, the overall reliability of the questionnaire was calculated and reported by Cronbach's alpha for each domain. Results: In this study, 118 female and 67 male students were recruited from interns. Findings of this study indicated that the reliability of the questionnaire was 0.956. The mean and standard deviation of the study was 3.01±0.57, for female students 3.04±0.58, for male students 2.95±0.56. In the meanwhile, the achievement of targets and evaluation of professor domains with mean and standard deviation of 3.19±0.67 and 3.21±0.64, respectively, has better result than the overall mean of the study, and curriculum & educational content domains with a mean of 2.94±0.63, organization and planning with a mean of 2.84±0.75, interactions with a mean of 2.95±0.83 and support services with a mean of 2.78±0.75, results was poorer than the overall mean of the study. Conclusion: Our data suggest that clinical education in the field of medicine in the mentioned period on students, has moderate effectiveness and the students' point of view, this training is also more effective.