Students' Viewpoints On Professor's Performance, Method Of Selection, Description Of Duties And The Extent Of Responsibilities

Saeed Hajiaghajani; Raheb Ghorbani; Mohammad Sadegh Jenabi; Masoomeh Saberian

doi:10.22037/jme.v2i1.893

Journal of Medical Education for Future Demands

Former Title: Journal of Medical Education | The Official Journal of School of Medical Education and Learning Technologies

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Students' Viewpoints On Professor's Performance, Method Of Selection, Description Of Duties And The Extent Of Responsibilities

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Saeed Hajiaghajani^1,*,

Raheb Ghorbani²,

Mohammad Sadegh Jenabi³,

Masoomeh Saberian⁴

1Faculty Member of Medical Education & Nursing, Head of Educational Development center, Semnan University of Medical Sciences.

2Faculty Member of Statistics, Research Director, Semnan University of Medical Sciences.

3Faculty Member of Speech therapy, Semnan University of Medical Sciences.

4Faculty Member of Nursing, Educational Development Center, 5emnan University of Medical Sciences.

Journal of Medical Education for Future Demands:Vol. 2, issue 1; e104981

Published online:Apr 04, 2009

Article type:Research Article

Received:Apr 04, 2009

Accepted:Apr 04, 2009

How to Cite:Saeed HajiaghajaniRaheb GhorbaniMohammad Sadegh JenabiMasoomeh SaberianStudents' Viewpoints On Professor's Performance, Method Of Selection, Description Of Duties And The Extent Of Responsibilities.J Med Edu.2(1):e104981.https://doi.org/10.22037/jme.v2i1.893.

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Background Universities have a crucial responsibility in training the students and to achieve this goal, provision of consultation and guidance is indispensable. In this way, students will be assisted to overcome difficulties improve self-awareness and independent decision-making.Methods In this cross-sectional study 275students (205 female, 70 male), studying for an MD or a BS, or a college degree participated, for whom guiding professors were assigned from different departments. The students completed a 45-item questionnaire including queries on demographic, performance of guiding professors, how they are selected by the students, and description of their responsibilities and the expectations of the students from them. To ensure the validity and reliability of the questionnaires, content validity test and re-test method were used and the students were then asked to pass their comments using "x" marks in front of each question. Results were analysed using SPSS software and Chi-square at the · level of 5%.Results Our study showed that 64% of the students had referred to guiding professors individually of whom 59.1% were seeking educational consultation; 86.9% were "eager" or "relatively eager" to refer to guiding professors individually. Of all participitant, 57.5% expected their guiding professors in the same educational field, and 53.5% of them preferred guiding professors to be selected for freshmen by the students of the final year of the same educational field Help of guiding professor in educational, familial and social economic problems was preferred by 63.3% of students.Conclusion Qur study indicated that guiding professors have been able to solve students' problems to a great extent.

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