the opinion of nursing student about case-based teaching method and comparison with lecture

background: one way of developing nursing education is using of new teaching methods. one of this student based method that has been introduced recently is case-based teaching method. so the aim of this study was to assess the opinion of nursing student about case-based teaching method and comparison with lecture in zanjan faculty of nursing and midwifery in 2011.   methods: this is a quasiexperimental study which 30 senior nursing students spending the intensive care curriculum in zanjan faculty of nursing and midwifery was selected.  the content of session was divided in two parts. first part of was presented with case-based teaching method and second part was presented with lecture. each of methods was done during 45 minute. at the end of session, it was asked from student to compare two methods and fill the questionnaire. data was analyzed with spss software.   results: according to the results, many of students completely agreed that case-based teaching method increases the reading comprehension of students as compared with lecture. also the results showed that most students had high satisfaction about this new method, while the mean satisfaction rate was 8/38±1/8 in 0-10 scale. but there was no differences between tow sex (p>0.05).  conclusion: according to the results we conclude that case-based teaching method has high efficacy as compared with lecture. and this is simply applicable method. so nursing instructors can use this method to promote students learning.