evaluation and comparison of clinical educational groups

background: medical education of iran witnessed a lot of changes in recent years. evaluation of educational activities has been one important intervention introduced in this regard. purpose: we designed a new format and evaluated the function of educational groups of tabriz medical science university at 2000 methods: educational group’s structure and function of internal medicine ward, infectious disease group, urology ward and genecology ward were compromised with each other. results: there was a lot of difference between function of educational groups. in some groups, students had no pleasure from the education. conclusion: it is necessary to investigate the problems of education and solve them by regular and exact program and educational intra group evaluation.