The Journal of Medical Education and Development

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Introduction : However human learning is by not only designing, but also classes are important unit, which educational experiment will be do in designing. Using need assessment it is possible to determine a logical order of actions must be done. These could be considered as when, where, who, what groups, what budgets, methods and device. The trainers are primary designer of the system. They perhaps facing with five different problems are: 1) Leading, 2) Evaluation, 3) Content and average, 4) Methods and 5) Limitation. If a trainer can resolve these problems, his learning quality will be promoted.

  The aim of this study was to determine trainer's problem and the way for solving.

 

Methods :A cross-sectional study was carried out. In to be 92 trainers related in the study who was working in high school (48% men & 52% women). A questionnaire was designed with two type's questions. First part includes 6 demographic questions and second 29 questions about educational problems of trainers. The data were analyzed by SPSS for windows.

 

Results :The data showed that the 90% of trainers believed that their educational background right related to the courses of their students. About 22% had not any more interest for collaboration with school to be involved in education program. More than 90% of trainers asked the money for educating the students.

 

Discussion :The results showed that the trainers have difficulty to do their activities better than now. It is necessary the health school collaborate with them.

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Introduction: depression is a common disorder however students of medical sciences who are involved in providing physical and mental health of society are more vulnerable. Timely diagnosis of this disorder can provide opportunity to prevent progress of and complication of depression. The purpose of this study was to measure prevalence of depression among successful and unsuccessful students of Public Health and Nursing -Midwifery schools of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences in 2008. Method: This is a cross-sectional descriptive study, performed on 125 successful and unsuccessful students. Grade point average of previous semester was the selection criterion of students in each group. Data collection tool was a two segments questionnaire. The first segment was related to demographic information of people under study and the second one was related to measuring the amount of depression based on Beck test. Data were analyzed using SPSS software and analytical statistics was used to investigate the relation between variables. Results: 53 out of 125 subjects were suffering from different degrees of depression. Maximum prevalence of depression was identified within unsuccessful students of midwifery and nursing school. Statistical test of Χ2 showed statistically significant relationship between the amount of depression and three variables of successful and unsuccessful students including: 1) discontent with the field of study, 2) living in dormitory, 3) unsuccessful students of Public Health, Midwifery- Nursing schools. Conclusion: Public Health and Nursing- Midwifery students in Yazd had a high prevalence of depression. Therefore planning is required to support advisory services to control and prevent depression among students.

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Introduction: students’ attitudes about teaching methodology have been widely recognised as a valid tool of evaluating teaching activities of faculty members. This study aims to determine the importance of the factors included in the teaching evaluation, from the students’ point of view.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional study. Using a random cluster sampling, 332 students of the school of public health of Shahid Sadoughi University were selected .To collect data, a questionnaire containing three partswere used. These were demographic items, teachers’ evaluation (14 items) and self-evaluation (4 items).

Results: The students (80%) scoredpersonal characteristics more. Among different fields of study, those studying occupational health scored the factorsless than others, and those studying at masters level scored them more than others.

  The results indicated that there are significant correlation between age, marital status, and employment status of the students and the total average score.

  The students scored the self-evaluation items more than 60%, There was a significant correlation between the average scores of evaluation and self-evaluation items. The students at bachelor level scored the factor more than masters students.

Conclusion: The students’ focus on personal characteristics of teachers was remarkable. There is a need to revise the process of academics’ recruitment based on these findings. There is also a need to review the items included in evaluation forms of the school.

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Introduction: Despite the fact that virtual education has been launched for a short time in medical sciences universities, especially Shahid Sadoughi University of Yazd, it is on initial steps. There is still no information available on the possible effects of this course so that we cannot identify the potential obstacles or problems or use its benefits in efficient way. In the present study, the researchers sought to explain the experiences and perspectives of teachers and students by using qualitative approach.
Methods: This study was conducted using a qualitative approach and semi-structured interview. The target population for the interview was teachers and students who had experienced such courses at Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences in 2019.
Result: In examining weaknesses in virtual education, four main categories include facilities, equipment, classroom control, inadequate teacher preparation, and student and emotional and cultural issues and eleven subcategories were extracted.
Conclusion: With respect to some obstacles in current education and due to the ever-increasing advances in technology, the use of virtual education methods is needed. If the weaknesses in the implementation of this approach, including upgrading of training and skills levels, technical infrastructure and equipment and cultural context, are fulfilled, it would be more successful.