بررسی نگرش دانشجویان علوم پزشکی گیلان در خصوص شرح وظایف اساتید مشاوره تحصیلی

Introduction: Educational counseling is the part of faculties&rsquo; essential duties. It has so many positive effects on educational process. Therefore, this study was designed to examine the attitude of medical bachelor students toward the faculty&rsquo;s educational counseling duties. Methods: In this descriptive, cross-sectional study, in 1391-92, 280 undergraduate students of Guilan University of Medical Sciences were randomly selected. Information collected through the self-report questionnaire that was designed according the last version of health ministry consultant-regulation. The overall reliability of questionnaire was calculated 0/7 in a pilot study. This questionnaire has 40 attitude statements regarding faculty&rsquo;s educational counseling duties in five areas; Educational - Research &ndash; Facilities- Cultural &ndash; and other roles. The gathered data was analyzed by SPSS software 16, using t-test and one way ANOVA. Result: The mean age of subjects was 22.1 &plusmn;3.4, 220 were women (78/6%). Among all tasks of academic counseling, most of students (95%) had agreed and extremely agreed with educational and research duties of faculty members. There was a significant difference between the attitude of subjects regarding faculties&rsquo; consulting duties (P<0.05). Students had the lowest agreement with the Cultural duties of advisors. Conclusion:Education of counseling content, best manner implementation and emphasis on importance of educational counseling in professional development are recommended.