The study on opinion of medical teadhers in necessity of execution of community oriented medical education in medical sciences universities of Tehran in 1998.

Introduction. Community orientation is a concept that nowadays seems necessary for medicine related services. Although our country has some degree of progress in this policy but we are still far from ideal condition. There are some problems affecting our improvement in this policy such as lack of budget and deficiency of proper health care centers for COME. So, the investigator has tried to study the necessity of community oriented medical education. Methods. This study has been done by cross – sectional method. The study group consisted of 151 of the students in medical sciences universities . For this purpose we designed a questionnaire with two sections. The first asked about demographic characteristics of the person and the second section included questions about necessity of COME. All the information was analyzed by SPSS . Results. The results of the investigation showed that only 37% of the researched units believed on the implicit necessity, 41.7% believe on necessity and 21.3% believed that execution of COME was unnecessary. Variance analysis between the university, line of study, type of the research units and their points of view about the necessity of COME, didn't show significant difference, but there was a significant difference between the different subjects of study of the faculty staff about their points of view about the necessity of the COME(p<0.001). Conclusion. According to the research results, faculty staff, specially in the nursing and health field, believed on the necessity of the execution of COME and a program should be designed for this purpose.