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Emamgholi Khoshehchin T, Shojae F, Ahmadnia E. The Survey of Educational Facilities of the Hospitals from the Standpoint of Midwifery Student of Zanjan. JMED 2009; 1 (1) :53-60
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  Background and Objective: In today's complicated world learning is of paramount importance, with education as the base of all learning: Also education in particular clinical education requires appropriate equipment and facilities for learning even provision of creature comfort for student plays a significant role.

  This study was carried out with the aim of assessing the educational facilities of the hospitals from the standpoint of midwifery student of Zanjan University of medical sciences.

 

  Material and Methods: In this descriptive study thirty six third term and fifth term midwifery students of associate's level participated. Data collecting tool included a questionnaire which was designed based on Likert scale, and investigated the student's point of view on hospital's educational facilities. This questionnaire was completed at one stage by the sample units. To analyses the data descriptive statistics and SPSS11 software were utilized.

 

  Results: The obtained results from this study showed that the majority of students assessed the educational facilities of the hospitals as average. However, a couple of items like the number of lockers accessible to the students in the hospitals (64.42 %), a resting place for the students (69.44%), and diversity of the patients for familiarity with different cases of disease (72.18%) were low or very low.

 

  Conclusion: Although hospitals facilities were evaluated as average improvement of positive and rectifying the defects could be an effective step toward enhancement of clinical education. Thus, improving the equipment and facilities should be considered as a major task by the university authorities. It is also suggested that through frequent evaluation of clinical fields and the comparison of present situation with the previous and the next situation, the negative and positive aspects of clinical education be recognized.

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Article Type : Orginal Research | Subject: Medical Education
Received: 2010/10/5 | Published: 2009/02/15

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