جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "laboratory sciences" در نشریات گروه "پزشکی"

The students are one of the most valuable assets of any country, and their attitude toward their field of study and future career can be used as a good guide to improve the quality of educational services. The aim of this study was to determine the laboratory sciences students’ attitude toward their field of study and future career in Alborz University of Medical Sciences.

This cross-sectional descriptive study was performed on 117 laboratory science students. Questionnaires including demographic questions and main research questions were used to collect data. To analyze the collected data, SPSS20 software, descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA and correlation analysis were used.

The average of student’s age was 20.66±1.43, which 29.1% were male and 70.9% were female. Average score of student’s attitude towards field of study was 42.59±8.19 (p <0.05), 43% had a positive attitude and 57% had a negative attitude towards their field of study. Also, average score of student’s attitude towards future career was 13.45±3.50 (p <0.000), 35.1% of students had a positive attitudes and 64.9% had a negative attitudes towards future careers.

According to the results, most students didn’t have the necessary awareness about their field of study. In order to better understand and to improve the students' perspectives, necessary counseling should be provided to get better acquainted with the university majors. Also, ensuring job security and creating suitable job position for graduates of this field are appropriate strategies to strengthen students' attitudes towards their future careers.

Teaching professional ethics is very important in university courses. Considering that the mentioned course has not been seen in the curriculum of undergraduate students in laboratory sciences, we decided to hold a professional ethics course for the above students. Then we decided to evaluate the mentioned course.

This quasi-experimental study was performed on 32 laboratory science students by census sampling method. The evaluation of the project was performed using the Creek Patrick evaluation model questionnaire (in the areas of reaction, learning, behavior and academic outcomes) that students answered 45 questions. The obtained data were analyzed using independent t-test and One-way ANOVA in SPSS software.

The average overall evaluation score of laboratory science students in the professional ethics is 190.09 with a standard deviation of 15.98, which is excellent based on the evaluation indicators. There is no significant difference in the average evaluation score in term of diploma major, gender and age.
Discussion and

The results of the study showed that teaching professional ethics is essential for laboratory science students. Therefore, it is recommended to include this training course in the laboratory science curriculum.

Laboratory science graduates are experts who together with other health care workers will be responsible for performing common clinical laboratories practices. In order to do this, the students must acquire the necessary knowledge and skills during the internship, and various problems will reduce the efficiency of internship in the field of laboratory sciences students. Identifying and solving these problems is essential to enhance the efficiency of this course. This research was done with the purpose of examining the laboratory sciences clerkship course by knowing about the viewpoints of the related faculty members, graduates and students at Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences.. In this qualitative study, a purposive sampling was used to select the subjects from the population of trainees, graduates and the faculty members, graduates and students of laboratory sciences. Semi-structured interviews were conducted. The results of the interviews led us to select the next sample, until no fresh ideas were gained. After gathering data from 13 persons, the results of the study were investigated by means of content analysis methodology. By analyzing research data, five key themes were identified including clerkship curriculum, Expectations from clerkship, motivation of students for clerkship involvement and clerkship planning and management. The results of this study demonstrated that general view of instructors and students are positive, but in the implementation, there are problems that should be addressed by the authorities.. So it is necessary for officials to improve the quality of clerkship through more incorporated plans.

Medical Laboratory Sciences is one of the important fields in Medicine that is closely associated with other disciplines in this group. This study aims to evaluate laboratory sciences curriculum in Iran and several countries worldwide. In this research، data collection is based on documents and curriculum goals of countries. The data collected was analyzed using qualitative methods. Comparative study of curriculum courses of bachelor of Laboratory Medical sciences was done and compared with the number of basic and specific units in Iran and other countries. The curriculum in Iran with Turkey and Australia is remarkably consistent. Internship units in hospitals have lower returns in compared to other universities in the world. Laboratory Science curriculum in Iran is matched with developing countries. However، more attention to training units and projects to improve the quality of teaching laboratory sciences could be more effective.

By using the ideas of the personnel working in laboratory, it is possible to create valuable changes in the process of teaching for the laboratory sciences students. The aim of this study was to investigate application of laboratory sciences in work place. This cross-sectional descriptive study was performed in 2010 by census method. A questionnaire including two parts was fulfilled. The first part included demographic information (sex, educational document, and way of employment) and the second part was a questionnaire about teaching programs of different basic and specialized courses including theory and practical. It was filled by 70 employees of the personnel working in governmental laboratories. Based on results, among the specialized courses, practical hematology and practical bacteriology had the maximum amount of application with 74.3% and 71.4%, respectively and practical pathology and theory of pathology had the minimum amount of application with 2.9%. The average of application of specialized courses by employees with Associate degree was significantly less than employees with Bachelor, and Master Science degree (P<0.05), but in other parameters was observed no significant difference. Among basic courses, practical general biochemistry and English had the maximum amount of application with 44.3% and 30% in work place, respectively, but histology, anatomy and practical physics had the minimum amount of application with 4.3%, 4.3% and 2.9%, respectively. The average of the amount of application of basic courses had no significant difference with observed parameters (P<0.05). Based on this study, basic courses had the minimum amount of application in work place. Therefore, revising curriculum these courses is necessary to make them more useful.

Achievement-based evaluation is an important part of the educational planning process, in which learners are screened; besides, it helps teachers in their self-evaluation. The purpose of present study is to survey the methods through which laboratory sciences students were evaluated by their professors at Tehran University of Medical Sciences(TUMS) in the academic year 2009-2010. In this cross-sectional study, the population consisted of the faculty members who teach laboratory sciences courses. Data collection instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed to describe all evaluation methods using tables and necessary distribution frequencies. Then, the results were compared with those of Medical Planning Council resolutions. The results show that mid-term exams were used for the evaluation of students in 35% of all theoretical and practical courses. Besides, of the evaluation methods used, multiple-choice questions occupied the first rank(70%) among the methods normally employed. According to the results, routine evaluation of undergraduate students of laboratory sciences at the Paramedical Faculty of Tehran University of Medical sciences not only conformed to the ratifications of the Supreme Council of Medical Planning, but also was done more extensively and with a higher degree of consistency in the academic year 2009-2010.