Study of clinical departments internal evaluation in Iran University Medical Sciences 2001-2002

Introduction. Medical education quality improvement is a main problem of medical education system in Iran. One of the strategies for medical education quality improvement is internal evaluation. General instruction objectives are determining problems of clinical departments and introducing strategies in different levels of management for solving the problems and following up suggestions. Methods. This study was a cross-sectional study. Study population included the total medical students in different clinical levels and all the academic clinical staff. Method of sampling was nonrandomized sampling (census). 240 staggers, 199 interns, 261 residents and 209 academic clinical staff participated in this study. Results. 16 clinical departments’ results revealed that clinical department managers were acceptable, education and research activities of clinical academic staff in their own view were moderately acceptable, educational activities of medical clinical students were moderately acceptable. Conclusions. Clinical academic staff believe that medical education system doesn’t have a good programming for students acceptance, academic staffs acceptance and has non-acceptable learning/teaching materials and aids, and academic staff economical assurance, therefore this factors should be solved by programming, performing and evaluation.