An Evaluation on Medical Students’ Satisfaction with Clinical Education and its Effective Factors

Abstract:

Purpose: To evaluate medical students’ satisfaction with clinical education during medical internship and the effects of variables in the organizational domain on satisfaction.

Method: A cross-sectional descriptive analytic study in 2000 identified students’ satisfaction with clinical education in medical students of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Students’ satisfaction was assessed by a modified job satisfaction questionnaire. Clinical education was classified into; outpatient, bedside and theoretical teaching.

Results: Overall satisfaction with clinical education was 38.8%; outpatient and bedside teaching 52% each and theoretical education 70.8%. Overall satisfaction had a significant association with approach to common and epidemic diseases, class size, and the course planning.

Conclusion: Based on the present study, we conclude that clinical education should be reevaluated in our university with the specific attention to the class size, variety of diseases and course planning considered for each session in clinical education.

Key words::

• student satisfaction
• clinical education
• bedside teaching
• outpatient training
• theoretical education