Final year medical students’ satisfaction with clinical education and family medicine module. Suez Canal University. Egypt

Background: Satisfaction is an indirect performance measure to the effectiveness of a curriculum. Faculties which provide professional education should be concerned with students’ satisfaction as an educational process outcomes. Objective 1to evaluate medical students’ satisfaction with clinical education and factors in the organizational domain that could influence their satisfaction. Objective 2to evaluate the students’ satisfaction with family medicine module. Methods: This was a cross sectional descriptive analytic study carried out between September and October, 2015. Convenience sampling was used and It included all 136 final year medical students in Suez Canal University. The first questionnaire was used to evaluate the medical students’ satisfaction with clinical education. Student Perception of Module (SPOM) questionnaire with 18 items was used to evaluate the student’s perception of family medicine (FM) module. Results: The study included 136 students and the mean age was 23 (0.45) years. Overall satisfaction with clinical education was 86.8%. The majority of study sample (85.3%) was satisfied with outpatient training. Most of the study sample was satisfied with bedside and theoretical training (76.5% & 77.9 %) respectively. Students’ satisfaction with family medicine modules revealed that across 80% of the 18 items, strong satisfaction ranged from 61.8% to 42.6%. Conclusion: Most of the students perceived clinical education and family medicine module positively. Future reevaluation of clinical education in Suez Canal University is recommended with consideration of the variety of diseases and improving instructor experience in bedside teaching. Reviewing FM module is recommended with special concern to make the students look the profession in positive way and to be intellectually more stimulating.