Analyzing the Effect of Cultural Counseling in the Process of Dress Code of Professional Students of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, 2013-2019

The purpose of this project was to institutionalize the law of professional dress and ethics in the minds and behaviors of students and to avoid coercive and disciplinary confrontations and to determine the degree of students' satisfaction with the cultural counseling process.

A council consisting of the Vice Chancellor for Education, the Vice Chancellor for Culture and Student Affairs of the University and the Secretary of the University Protection Staff, drafted the regulations for the cultural process of covering and professional ethics of students. Students who violated the regulations entered the process within a period of one month. A researcher-made questionnaire was developed to assess students' views on this process. The statistical population was students who violated the regulations and a number of students who did not violate the rules of professional ethics in the colleges. Data were entered and analyzed in SPSS19 software.

It showed the appropriate effect of the process on reducing the number of students introduced to the Disciplinary Council and the rulings issued and the satisfaction of more than 80% of students with this process.

The implementation of this process among students violating the code of professional ethics at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences reduced the number of rulings issued by the Disciplinary Council, behavioral and functional effectiveness, as well as greater student satisfaction. The use of this process in other institutions of higher education is recommended.