Medical Student's Attitudes Towards the Objective and Content of Immunology in General Medicine

Evaluation of educational program by students not only can be considered as an appropriate valuation method also can improve the effective training. Hence, this study was carried out to appraise the opinions of medical students towards various aspects of immunology course. The present cross-sectional study evaluated the opinions of 225 medical students at Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences; the data collection tool was a questionnaire consisted of 30 questions about various aspects of the immunology course; and, database was extracted from the questionnaires and then analyzed by SPSS-18vr. with the addition of statistical methods. Moreover, the statistical population consisted of 100 students (44.4%) in Basic Sciences section; other 49 students (21.8%) in Physiopath section; and 76 students the Interns (33.8%) of overall 25.8% male and 63.3% female. The result of the study revealed purposes, content, and material resources of immunology course were significantly considered more moderate (P ≤ 0.05). It seems that the participants anticipated providing better conditions of teaching; therefore, it likely requires to revise, and to reform the size, content and manner of its presentation and the time duration of class in immunology course.