the impact of student-centered pedagogy on training in a pediatrics course

introduction: the most important change in medical education is a shift from didactic teacher-centered and subject-based teaching to the use of interactive, problem-based, student-centered learning. student-centered approach is a teaching approach t that encompasses replacing lectures with active learning, integrating self-paced learning programs and cooperative group situations, ultimately holding the student responsible for his own advances in education. this study aimed to determine the attitudes of students towards learning method based on problem solving as a student-centered and their satisfaction from the student-centered learning method in the medical students of mashhad university of medical science.   materials and methods: this was a descriptive cross-sectional study. in total, 47 m.sc. students of health (11 male and 36 female) was selected to participate in this study. we used convenience and purposeful sampling strategies. data collection tools included an 8-items questionnaire to evaluate the student-centered approach in the course of disease in children. the questions were on a 5-point likert scale ranging from never to more times. results: in total,eleventh male and 36 female participation in this study.  the results of this study showed that there was a significant difference in the score of participation in the course of pediatric (t=8.86) (p<0.0001), the knowledge of the participants of this course in the other university (t=4.5) (p<0.0001), the conference is presented by students (t=9.14) (p<0.0001), the suitability of student-centered approach (t=5.65) (p<0.0001). however, there was no significant difference in the score of usefulness of the student-centered approach (t=0.58) (p=0.56). also there was a significant difference in the score of interest in teaching by using student-centered approach (t=2.31) (p=0.025). the other results showed that the students preference the teacher-centered ten the student-centered approach (t=2.54) (p=0.014).  conclusion: most studies comparing didactic teacher-centered and subject-based teaching showed that the majority of students interested to the traditional method of teaching. however, there is evidence of increasing use of student-centered teaching style.