Assessing the Self-assessment Ability of Using the Radiology Internship learnings in Medical Graduates of Islamic Azad University of Mashhad

Educational program evaluation is one of the most important strategies for receiving feedback and can lead to the dynamics of education. The aim of this study was to determine the self-assessment ability of medical students to use what they learned from the radiology internship.

This cross-sectional study was conducted on 64 medical students of Islamic Azad University of Mashhad in 2018-2020. For all the participants, an individual information checklist was completed with the researcher made questionnaire, which was prepared to evaluate the ability to use radiology knowledge, Then the data were entered into SPSS version 25 software and analyzed.

The average score of the questionnaire was 37.37 ± 4.86 and the majority of the participants (87.5%) had a score of more than 30. The score of the radiology internship evaluation questionnaire was 35.37 ± 3.95 for people under 30 years old and 39.79 ± 4.82 for people 30 years and older. Also, the score was 39.78 ± 4.98 in 2018 graduates, 35.67 ± 4.06 in 2019 graduates, and 34.37 ± 2.79 in 2020 graduates. The score of the questionnaire assessing the ability to use the learnings of the radiology internship in people with less than one year of work experience was 33.10 ± 3.29, in people with one to three years of work experience was 37.48 ± 2.97 and 45.1 ± 2.42 in people with more than three years of work experience (p<0.001). There was no significant difference in the score of the questionnaire according to gender and marital status.

According to the results, it can be concluded that the ability of the medical graduates to use what they have learned in the radiology training course is favorable.