Medico-Legal Update
  • Year: 2017
  • Volume: 17
  • Issue: 1

What Can affect Clinical Training Programs? A Cross Sectional Study on Surgical Technology Students in Zahedan 2016

  • Author:
  • Zahra Pournamdar1, Ali Ghanbari Bonjar2,, Zahra Mahdavinia2, Mahshid Nazemzadeh Shoaei1, Mahnaz Shahrakipour3
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 222 to 226

1Community Nursing Research Center, Pregnancy Health Research Center, School of Health, Pregnancy Health Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran

2Student Scientific Research Center, School of Health, Pregnancy Health Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran

3Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Health, Pregnancy Health Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran

*Corresponding author: Ali Ghanbari Bonjar, Student Scientific Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran.

Online published on 7 February, 2017.

Abstract

Clinical environments are dynamic. Due to this situation teaching programs are different in these kinds of environments. This would emphasis the important role of clinical mentors in clinical education. For sure recognizing the positive and negative factors which effect on clinical training programs would help to reduce so many problems. This study aimed to find out what are these positive and negative factors.

42 surgical technology students containing graduated associated degree to bachelor students and senior straight bachelor students were included in this survey. The respondents were chosen through a randomized sampling method. The data were analyzed through SPSS v19 by descriptive statistics and T test after collection.

Almost young students participated this study while the mean of age was 26.10±6.81. 17 students were males while 25 were female. 23 were senior straight bachelor students while 19 were associated degree to bachelor students. The students mostly agreed with the following questions. In aims and educational program dimension it was: “the prerequisite lessons should be considered for clinical lessons”, in mentor's dimension it was: ” the mentor comes to work on time”, in interactions with student dimension it was: “the staff have a good corporation with students”, in educational environment dimension it was: “the number of students are proper for learning” and in supervising and evaluating dimension it was: “the educational program in clinics is being well supervised”.

All the factors effecting clinical education were in a good range of score in this study, but improving this situation can be a huge step to clinical education development.

Keywords

Effecting factors, clinical training, students