The Journal of Medical Education and Development

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Introduction: Improvement and promotion of the quality of clinical education requires continuous assessment of the current situation, and also identifying the strengths and weaknesses. Students' views and ideas as learner can help future planning. This study aims to identify the experiences of midwifery graduates about factors affecting their clinical learning.

Methods: A qualitative study using phenomenology approach was conducted. Ten midwifery graduates were selected based on purposive sampling and then interviewed. Data were analyzed by thematic analysis.

Results: The extracted conceptual codes were classified into several main concepts. There were two main themes factors facilitating learning and factors preventing learning, and seven sub themes performance of instructor, pre-clinical training, students satisfaction, lack of peripheral facilities, lack of coordination of educational planning and behaviors of health care personnel.

Conclusion: Trained human resources and equipment for midwifery educational planning are needed to provide a supportive learning atmosphere and promote the quality of clinical learning.

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Introduction: Academic failure is one of the most common problems of the academic problems among the university students which accompanied by a range of interpersonal and psychological damages and conftont with disturbance the person, s function in all aspects of the life. The purpose of the current study was to qualitative investigation of the damages and psychological dysfunctions of the students with academic failure.
Method: This study was administered by qualitative method and using the descriptive phenomenological. The under study population in this study consisted of all master, s degree students with academic failure in Allameh Tabatabayi University in the years of 2016-2018. Also the sampling method was purposeful sampling during which 16 subjects from the target population were selected to participate in the study and were interviewed. All interviews were recorded and then transcribed line by line and eventually were analized by using the Diekelmann et al. descriptive analysis method.
Results: the 16 semistructured interviews were conducted and the analysis of the data from the interviews led to identification and classifying of 6 main themes (psychological distress and discomfort, unpleasent percieved emotions, cognitive-mental damages, unresolved grief, low self-esteem, failures and relational Inconveniences) and 26 sun themes in context of the psychological damage and malfunctions of the students became conditional.
Conclusion: Based on the results, functional programs should be designed and implemented with the aim of correcting and improving the common psychological injuries and dysfunctions among conditional students, thus increasing their efficiency in taking care of their academic duties and responsibilities.