evaluation of the quality of the clinical psychology department of tehran university of medical sciences: to study the present status, bottlenecks and trends from the perspective of teachers and students

aim and background: the aim of this study was to examine the quality curriculum of the department of clinical psychology of tehran university medical science.  methods and materials: it is a descriptive case study and the sampling comprises ma, phd students and attending professors of the department of clinical psychology tehran university of medical sciences in the academic year of 2010-2011 evaluating with an inventory. findings: evaluation indicated that fine performances were for management and organizations but not for educational goals such as curricula, educational research, and resources, nor faculty members. the list of priorities of the aforementioned program is: 1- to consider primary curricula 2- to allocate more properties and broaden comprehensive plan to develop clinical psychological studies 3- go ahead with detailed plan to recruit intellectual faculty members 4- promote social welfare states for faculty 5- to provide sufficient facilities such as monthly salary, mortgage, and so forth for students to avoid carrying out regular menial jobs out of university thanks to well paying which can be adequate for their cost of living 6- annual meeting with other clinical psychological school mates and masters for not only better communication but also looking for a solution. conclusions: we suggest that the current achievement should be considered as a pilot study to evaluate other educational departments, so that we are quite an experience being involved in iran.